ASRock Shows Live Demo of A-Style Waterproof Coating

[N.Broekhuijsen]

ASRock has released a live demo of the Waterproof by Conformal Coating feature for its A-Style motherboards.

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[unknown9122]

Too bad the GPU will take the brunt of the load lol.

 

[drwho1]

big head, can't even see if the board is actually connected.

 

[unknown9122]

big head, can't even see if the board is actually connected.

You can the connections on the right side of the motherboard. There are 3-4 cables connected.

 

[Immaculate]

(Super baked voice) This IS amazing...

 

[hotroderx]

Whats the point of this? Even in a water cooled application. Which I am assuming is its target it does not make since. The video card would short out thus rendering the system useless. A high performance video card is going to be several times more expensive then a motherboard.

 

[vmem]

that's amazing Asrock, good job!
but you really didn't need a guy to say "this is amazing" at the end...

 

[fil1p]

A waterproof motherboard is pretty cool, especially for sub zero cooling and water cooling. Those who bench on LN2 or DICE sure would have a much easier time with insulation.

 

[thefiend1]

"Amazing" it is not.

 

[John Goodman]

Now that's what I called watercooling!
*crickets*

 

[nevilence]

wow, thats pretty damn impressive, if your water cooling busts its able to provide secondary cooling to the rest of the board as the resivoir drains out =P

 

[CarolKarine]

Toms... you're two days late YET AGAIN

 

[robthatguyx]

With water cooling your problem isn't water falling onto the motherboard,its vertical.It almost can not happen.Its the back of your graphics card and power supply.Notice how there was no dedicated graphics on this?Leads me to believe the pins in the pci-e slot would short out.

 

[dxwarlock]

While the idea seems good. Doesnt seem so practical in real world.
Say you have watercooling..Long as when it leaks, it doesn't touch any:
pci-e slots, ram slots, IO slots, pins, fan headers, USB headers, power headers, etc.. you are OK.
Waterproof everywhere but where it connects to, or has something, isn't very waterproof at all to me. I still see it failing 9 out of 10 times due to water leak, or condensation running down.
Now make each connector sealed in some thin split rubber dome or slit that connectors can pass through, then its more water proof

 

[dxwarlock]

edit: double post...

 

[edogawa]

(•_•) I guess you could say ( •_•)>⌐■-■ ...this is a cool motherboard (⌐■_■). YAAAAAAH!!!

 

[danwat1234]

They are probably using distilled water, which most of the motherboard components wouldn't care about anyway. They should re-do it with salt water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXB5jlODJSs

 

[christop]

Sweet my next build will be a water fall motherboard...

 

[frenzyvanrafi]

I want to try submerge this motherboard under the sea and do extreme benchmark (nonsense), how durable are lol

 

[frenzyvanrafi]

Sweet my next build will be a water fall motherboard...

But your graphics card killed after tortured by water (because it was not waterproof) lol

 

[christop]

Sweet my next build will be a water fall motherboard...

But your graphics card killed after tortured by water (because it was not waterproof) lol

I will have to direct the flow of water around the pci ports...

 

[christop]

Sweet my next build will be a water fall motherboard...

But your graphics card killed after tortured by water (because it was not waterproof) lol

I will have to direct the flow of water around the pci ports...

 

[JamesSneed]

Im wondering why all phones don't have this coating already...

 

[sephirothmk]

Cute. But you should really apply this coating on laptop or cellphone motherboards. I literally know noone who spilled a drink over his desktop.

 

[cj_online]

Oh look, it's the "so give me 5" guy.