A new heatsink on back of GPU

[stardust]

Hey guys,

I feel a bit sour because my ASUS FX5900 doesn't support the 2D/3D coolbits feature and I would like to add another GPU heatsink to the back of the GPU like MSI's cooler.

My question is, what chipset cooler should I use if any, and what type of non-conductive thermal material should I use between the heatsink and GPU back?

Any ideas of how to cool this card would be appreciated 🙂

TIA!

If you were wondering, I was bored and I sprayed the compressed oxygen from those DustOFF dust canisters onto the back side of the vidcard and watched the temps drop from 61C to 14C!!! :Q

 

[stardust]

any ideas? should i do it?

 

[ShinX]

Arctic Silver for the thermal material

 

[stardust]

Originally posted by: ShinX
Arctic Silver for the thermal material

arctic silver will blow the video card up as soon as you turn it on.. its 99.9% conductive..

 

[ShinX]

ooops , i mean put the Arctic silver on the core and the memory , you wont need a rear cooler

 

[Creig]

Use adhesive thermal conductive tape. I did it to an old GF256 I had overclocked. Even with a Crystal Orb the PCB would get extremely hot where the core was. I cut up an old heatsink and used the thermal tape to attach them all around where it got hot and they wouldn't interfere with SMDs. It did help temps.

 

[stardust]

Is there a better kind of adhesive tape? I have a feeling those tapes insulate heat more than they conduct..

If not, is there anywhere i could buy some?

 

[Corporate Thug]

what about a vantec iceberq 4?

 

[VisableAssassin]

Originally posted by: stardust

Originally posted by: ShinX
Arctic Silver for the thermal material

arctic silver will blow the video card up as soon as you turn it on.. its 99.9% conductive..

99.9% silver content by weight or some junk ! conductive for HEAT not electricity !
when will people learn?

 

[VIAN]

ceramique is just as good as arctic silver 5 and doesn't conduct electricity.