Hey guys, I hate to be the crying baby of the bunch, but...I ran the truck this morning. It's getting HOT down here now. I ran for about four minutes and it thermalled.

I had had enough so I pulled the Quark apart and guess what I found. The pcb was moving around in the case pretty easily, so I started to peel the heat spreader from the case and get this, the adhesive on the FET side of the spreader just let go. It came off completely in tact. Check out the pic...



Do you see the indentions in the thermal pad from the FETs? You don't because they're hardly there. It looks like fewer than a third of the FETs were actually stuck to the pad.

Apparently, whatever lubricant it is that is used in the manufacturing process for the chips wasn't cleaned off.

What is up with S&T?