*PICS* VGA silencer correctly installed?

[chuckywang]

I recently bought the Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer Rev. 3 for my Radeon 9700 pro. I hooked it up as per the instructions, making sure the screws were nice and tight. However, when I turn on my computer, everything would be fine for a while, but then the monitor would inexplicably go blank (the same thing that happens when you turn the monitor on without plugging it into the video card). I wonder if the cooler is connected properly. Here are some pics:

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Sorry if the pics are a little blurry, but I think they're good enough.

Thanks!!

 

[chuckywang]

Damn autoparser:

Top
Bottom
Side

That should work.

All I did was remove the original heatsink. Is that all I need to remove before I install the silencer?

 

[MDE]

You may have to remove the shim from around the VPU to get solid contact between the core and heatsink.

 

[pirred908]

Don't remove the shim, mine looks the same exact way and works perfect. Leave it as is.

 

[chuckywang]

Before anyone asks, I did plug the Silencer in and the fan works fine.

 

[MDE]

Pull the heatsink off and see if there's a good impression of the core (thermal compound outline). If not then you'll probably need to do some shim surgery. If there is, then I don't know.

 

[chuckywang]

Did anybody else have to remove the shim? The instructions that came with the Silencer say nothing about this.

 

[Chopstick217]

I installed one on my friends 9800 pro and left the shim on. Works great with some arctic silver.

 

[Childs]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Did anybody else have to remove the shim? The instructions that came with the Silencer say nothing about this.

I did not remove the shim on my 9800Pro. The heatsink was already making good contact with the core (I removed it to make sure). I heard of some potential problems occuring when removing the shim, so IMO if it aint broke dont fix it.

 

[MegaWorks]

I didn't remove the shim on my 9500 Pro, so I can't tell whats my temp. But by touching the card it's cooler then before so it worked.

 

[chuckywang]

Alright, thanks for the suggestions. I didn't think I spread the paste out over the VPU correctly when I installed the Silencer. I'm going to remove it now to see if the heatsink is touching.

 

[chuckywang]

I removed the Silencer and the heatsink does have an indentation of paste from the VGU. However, the indentation was that that "straight", so I added some paste and rescrewed the whole thing back together tightly. Hopefully, it'll work now. We'll see.