Fixed up my VId card

[Lizardman]

To make a long story short I have a digidoc and recorded the temps from the back of my vid card. The digi doc was recording temps of up to 52C underload and 48idle on my Geforce 2. This seemed kinda high for my so I decided to rip off that old stock heat sink. I did this my running 3dmark for a few minutes untill it heated up then take it out of my system very fast. After that I put a screw drive between my heatsink and GPU then twisted. Took a little effort and a bit of sweating but it came off. After the dirty old stock heat sink comes off what do I see but not only was there no thermal paste holding the GPU to the heatsink but the SUPERGLUE used to hold it on was completely insulating the GPU (as you can see by the burn marks on it). I had an old Voodoo 3 heatsink laying around so I cleaned if off and attached it to the GPU with some artic alumina epoxy.

Oh yeah I attached the new (old) heatsink after I spent 30minutes scraping the superglue off with a screw driver. I was using the plastic wand that came with the artic alumina to scrap it off but that broke after 2 minutes. :Q


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Now I have idle temps(recorded from back of vid card like before) of 42C and load temps of 48C and room temps of 31C the whole time.

Screw you Dell you and your shIIty oem vid cards. I mean come on a 7 year old heatsink with no fan can do better.

The ramsinks you see were placed on a while ago just for kicks.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

hehe, we are a bunch of freaks

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[Lizardman]

Nice job. What type of epoxy did you use to secure it?

You dont run it with that fan do you. I dont think you need the fan on there. The heat sink alone is overkill

 

[ThisIsMatt]

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There are all the pics -- it's held on with springs/screws. The fan moves a low amount of air, it's dead quiet. Even with the large heatsink, I didn't like how hot the backside of the gpu/pcb got, so I put on the fan. I don't know temperature-wise how hot it was, but hot enough that you couldn't keep your finder on it very long. That was after an hour playing UT with it oc'd 20-33mhz core...

 

[Lizardman]

How did you know which resistance springs to buy?? and how did you hold the screws on. DId you jsut used plastic nuts.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Springs were just some I had...they're pretty stiff. I tightened down the screws until the board started to bend and decided that was tight enough

The screws have rubber grommets beneath the regular steel nuts

 

[Lizardman]

Rubber groments good thinking might have to try springs and screws next time instead of epoxy