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Hi..

Today when I work on my PC, handling the PSU to clean it, I found something like white dry gum sticks around its components inside. The PSU is Corsair TX650M. I don't know what these are. I tried to poke with small screw driver, it's not soft but not hard either. It sticks not only at 1 spot but there are some of it.. No smell come out from it.

 

Could you identify what are these? I'm clueless.. I don't want to turn on my PC till I'm sure what are these things and if it's not a problem..

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CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K, 5GHz Delidded LM || CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C14S w/ NF-A15 & NF-A14 Chromax fans in push-pull cofiguration || Motherboard: MSI Z370i Gaming Pro Carbon AC || RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8Gb 2666 || GPU: EVGA GTX 1060 6Gb FTW2+ DT || Storage: Samsung 860 Evo M.2 SATA SSD 250Gb, 2x 2.5" HDDs 1Tb & 500Gb || ODD: 9mm Slim DVD RW || PSU: Corsair SF600 80+ Platinum || Case: Cougar QBX + 1x Noctua NF-R8 front intake + 2x Noctua NF-F12 iPPC top exhaust + Cougar stock 92mm DC fan rear exhaust || Monitor: ASUS VG248QE || Keyboard: Ducky One 2 Mini Cherry MX Red || Mouse: Logitech G703 || Audio: Corsair HS70 Wireless || Other: XBox One S Controler

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Selastic? Just like to hold shit in place

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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12 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Selastic? Just like to hold shit in place

What is selastic? Never heard of it.. Is this thing intended to be put inside a PSU?

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CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K, 5GHz Delidded LM || CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C14S w/ NF-A15 & NF-A14 Chromax fans in push-pull cofiguration || Motherboard: MSI Z370i Gaming Pro Carbon AC || RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8Gb 2666 || GPU: EVGA GTX 1060 6Gb FTW2+ DT || Storage: Samsung 860 Evo M.2 SATA SSD 250Gb, 2x 2.5" HDDs 1Tb & 500Gb || ODD: 9mm Slim DVD RW || PSU: Corsair SF600 80+ Platinum || Case: Cougar QBX + 1x Noctua NF-R8 front intake + 2x Noctua NF-F12 iPPC top exhaust + Cougar stock 92mm DC fan rear exhaust || Monitor: ASUS VG248QE || Keyboard: Ducky One 2 Mini Cherry MX Red || Mouse: Logitech G703 || Audio: Corsair HS70 Wireless || Other: XBox One S Controler

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3 minutes ago, _Hustler_One_ said:

What is selastic? Never heard of it.. Is this thing intended to be put inside a PSU?

Yes. Stops vibrations, thereby lessens coil whine.

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Don't want to turn it on? Every psu in the world pretty much has it. Even other components. Leave it be.

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@Bananasplit_00 @Comic_Sans_MS then I guess it's not a problem.

Thanks

My system specs:

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CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K, 5GHz Delidded LM || CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C14S w/ NF-A15 & NF-A14 Chromax fans in push-pull cofiguration || Motherboard: MSI Z370i Gaming Pro Carbon AC || RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8Gb 2666 || GPU: EVGA GTX 1060 6Gb FTW2+ DT || Storage: Samsung 860 Evo M.2 SATA SSD 250Gb, 2x 2.5" HDDs 1Tb & 500Gb || ODD: 9mm Slim DVD RW || PSU: Corsair SF600 80+ Platinum || Case: Cougar QBX + 1x Noctua NF-R8 front intake + 2x Noctua NF-F12 iPPC top exhaust + Cougar stock 92mm DC fan rear exhaust || Monitor: ASUS VG248QE || Keyboard: Ducky One 2 Mini Cherry MX Red || Mouse: Logitech G703 || Audio: Corsair HS70 Wireless || Other: XBox One S Controler

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As the other people just said, it's perfectly fine and not for example an indication of a shady repair job.

Better avoid poking components in a power supply. Even when turned off and unplugged you might get nasty shocks if you are unlucky and hit a capacitor that still has some charge in it.

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15 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Don't want to turn it on? Every psu in the world pretty much has it. Even other components. Leave it be.

OK this is my fist time to see these things. I'm a noob..

 

Thanks..

My system specs:

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CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K, 5GHz Delidded LM || CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C14S w/ NF-A15 & NF-A14 Chromax fans in push-pull cofiguration || Motherboard: MSI Z370i Gaming Pro Carbon AC || RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8Gb 2666 || GPU: EVGA GTX 1060 6Gb FTW2+ DT || Storage: Samsung 860 Evo M.2 SATA SSD 250Gb, 2x 2.5" HDDs 1Tb & 500Gb || ODD: 9mm Slim DVD RW || PSU: Corsair SF600 80+ Platinum || Case: Cougar QBX + 1x Noctua NF-R8 front intake + 2x Noctua NF-F12 iPPC top exhaust + Cougar stock 92mm DC fan rear exhaust || Monitor: ASUS VG248QE || Keyboard: Ducky One 2 Mini Cherry MX Red || Mouse: Logitech G703 || Audio: Corsair HS70 Wireless || Other: XBox One S Controler

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It's totally normal.

 

 

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Yeah. Very normal.

 

I’ve never seen a PSU that didn’t have it.

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Glue to glue stuff in place, so that it don't rip off in transport.

Yes, you use that with rather heavy stuff like Coils.

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22 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Selastic? Just like to hold shit in place

 

22 hours ago, _Hustler_One_ said:

What is selastic? Never heard of it.. Is this thing intended to be put inside a PSU?

Silastic (not selastic) is an old DuPont brand name for what is commonly referred to as silicone rubber.

Jeannie

 

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One has to be proactive, not reactive, to ensure the safety of one's data so backup your data! And RAID is NOT a backup!

 

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3 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

 

Silastic (not selastic) is an old DuPont brand name for what is commonly referred to as silicone rubber.

I assume you haven't been on this forum long enough to see the fact that I can't spell for shit :P

But yah, that's the stuff. Holds stuff down and mitigates vibration noises

 

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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5 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

 

Silastic (not selastic) is an old DuPont brand name for what is commonly referred to as silicone rubber.

We can just say "RTV".  ;)  Easier to spell.  

 

 

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In case anyone cares, RTV is the initialization for "Room Temperature Vulcanizing" silicone rubber. RTV originally referred to a two part silicone rubber that had to be mixed together, much like epoxies, to start the curing process but was later was also used to refer to the one part silicone rubbers that depended on moisture containing air to initiate curing.

Jeannie

 

As long as anyone is oppressed, no one will be safe and free.

One has to be proactive, not reactive, to ensure the safety of one's data so backup your data! And RAID is NOT a backup!

 

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Well... better safe than sorry? hehe

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12 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

In case anyone cares, RTV is the initialization for "Room Temperature Vulcanizing" silicone rubber. RTV originally referred to a two part silicone rubber that had to be mixed together, much like epoxies, to start the curing process but was later was also used to refer to the one part silicone rubbers that depended on moisture containing air to initiate curing.

Still try to use the two part version.  One part RTV takes too long to cure.  If you're going from the assembly line to an 2 hour, 40°C burn in within 15 minutes, 1 part RTV still isn't cured before it's packed and put in the warehouse.  Very not good.

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1 hour ago, jonnyGURU said:

Still try to use the two part version.  One part RTV takes too long to cure.  If you're going from the assembly line to an 2 hour, 40°C burn in within 15 minutes, 1 part RTV still isn't cured before it's packed and put in the warehouse.  Very not good.

It depends on the usage. Two part is necessary for a fast cure but it is critical that it is thoroughly mixed, then there is little open time to available to use it. It's not especially practical in an assembly line situation. Not applying it until after burn in would take care of the problem with using the slower curing one part silicone rubber. Packaging could easily be arranged to be done in a way that the silicone rubber wouldn't be disturbed and it could finish curing in the package.

 

My experience is that one part silicone rubber needs to cure for several days to a week to reach full strength even though it skins over within a half hour or so and seems to be cured. I used to build my own aquariums and, if I filled a large one even two or three days after assembling the aquarium, the seams would fail. I generally waited around five to seven days--the larger the aquarium, the longer the wait--before testing the aquarium with water.

Jeannie

 

As long as anyone is oppressed, no one will be safe and free.

One has to be proactive, not reactive, to ensure the safety of one's data so backup your data! And RAID is NOT a backup!

 

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10 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

It depends on the usage. Two part is necessary for a fast cure but it is critical that it is thoroughly mixed, then there is little open time to available to use it. It's not especially practical in an assembly line situation.

They typically have the two five gallon buckets on the floor of the line and then a dual injector applying the RTV to the components.

 

10 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

Not applying it until after burn in would take care of the problem with using the slower curing one part silicone rubber. Packaging could easily be arranged to be done in a way that the silicone rubber wouldn't be disturbed and it could finish curing in the package.

That's not how PSU factories work, I'm afraid.

The goal is to move product through as quickly as possible.  That includes quite a bit of man-handling of the product.  The caulk needs to be cured as soon as possible or blobs of it are going to fly everywhere.

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