Recent content by Winkyman

Okay so the $10,000,000 question, do I buy thermal pads and give this another go, or is the card complexity toast? I am leaning towards toast. sadly.

Here is a photobucket link, I have no idea if it worked, first timer there.

Well the thought was the since IC7 is so thick it would work and serve this purpose. Apparently not, lol. I guess at the end of the day I wound up with an EVGA SC 570, so I've got a better card with a lifetime warranty from a reputable company, so all is not lost. I just have a hard time...

Okay workaround I posted it to my Dropbox public box that can be found here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28143096/GTX%20285%20Post%20Mortem.jpg See if that works.

Ah, I may not post attachments, hopefully as my post count goes up that restriction goes away. I've got a good photo too. I'll keep posting and hoping for the best.

I can prolly get a picture, give me a minute or two to set it up.

I added a 'blob' approximate to the distance the heat spreader was away from the device. I did not blog it on. I think the problem lies with a decide labeled 'IR2' it's just under the 6 pin adapter, that was where I got the smoke from. Im assuming the the generic Thermal-take TIM was indeed...

Well you can't kill a guy for trying, lol. Thanks for the welcome, and oddly enough thanks for the bad news, lol.

So, seeing the baseline heat on my GTX 285 and reading about the horror stories about the factory TIM installation, I decided to change the TIM on the GPU. What I had not expected was the condition of the thermal pads. I did some reading and people indicated a blob of TIM (non...