Put on Accelero X2 cooler on X1900XTX and then took it off and applied AS5 to GPU core...

[DaveyTN]

I recently purchased the Accelero X2 cooler for my X1900XTX. I put it on using the stock thermal paste that was on the cooler and put on the 8 thermal memory pads on the X1900XTX memory.

I booted the computer up and wasn't pleased with the drop in temperatures. So, I took the Accelero X2 off of the ATI card (this wasn't easy), removed the stock thermal paste with some iso alchohol and then put some AS5 on the GPU.

Now, the memory pads that were on the memory got pulled off of the memory and onto the back of the Accelero X2. On a couple of the memory modules there was a little bit of thermal pad that was still on there so I cleaned it off with some iso alchohol.

Now, the 8 thermal pads on the back of the cooler were in pretty good shape - still somewhat sticky but not quite as sticky as they were originally.

I then mounted the heatsink back onto the card and tightened the bolts. It looked like all of the thermal pads mated up good with the memory modules.

The system seems to be running fine.

Anyone see any problem with this? Should I redo this again and use new thermal pads on the memory ????

Thanks!!

 

[JBT]

Sounds fine to me but did th AS5 actually do anything with temps??? I would doubt it. I just used the stuff that was on there.

 

[NoDamage]

There is at least one review suggesting that the Accelero with AS5 performs slightly better than the Accelero with stock paste.

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/accelerox2/4.html

 

[DaveyTN]

Thanks. Well, for me, the AS5 didn't really improve the temp. It was about the same to possibly 1 - 2 C lower with the AS5.

What I finally did was download ATI tool and increase the fan on the X2 to 100%. This dropped the temps by about 15C !!!

 

[NoDamage]

Yeah increasing the fan speed should have the most benefit, on both the stock cooler and Accelero. What were your idle/load temps before and after?

 

[DaveyTN]

With the stock cooler on dynamic fan - about 55C idle and 90C load.
With X2 and AS5 on dynamic fan - about 52C idle and 88C load.
With X2 and AS5 on 100% fan - about 41C idle and 72C load.