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imported_Reck

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I bought a vga silencer for me gf3 and i'm a bit scared of installing it, i've never done any mods to video cards before. My card has a thermal pad , how should I go about removing it? Isopropyl alchohol and cotton swabs?
 
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CKXP

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Originally posted by: Reck
oh great i can't get the heatsink off. what the hell can i do to get it off?
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what kind of GF3 do you have? try placing it back in your case, and running it for awhile, that should warm up your GPU and loosen up the thermal paste. that should make it easier for your heatsink to come off. also try using a drivers license(or something similiar) to slide in between the heatsink and GPU.

edit: i had a similiar problem with my GF3 ti200, and you're right it uses a thermal pad instead of paste, the suggestion i mention above is what i had to do to remove the heatsink. also to remove the remains of the pad from the core i saturated the GPU with 91% alcohol, and then used a DL to "scrape" the rest of the pad from the GPU.

 
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imported_Reck

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what do you mean unplugging the fan and running it?

also why the heck is the included backplate different than the one advertised? its revision 3 so it's supposed to include a video card backplate that take up two pci slots but i got one that takes up one.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/modules.p...index&req=viewarticle&artid=117&page=1

http://www.dansdata.com/vgasilencer.htm

see how the backplate has holes for dvi, vga and tv out? well mine is not dual stacked like that, mine just has a seperate pci mounting plate with the switch and nothing else. is that a design change or...?

 
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CKXP

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Originally posted by: Reck
what do you mean unplugging the fan and running it?

also why the heck is the included backplate different than the one advertised? its revision 3 so it's supposed to include a video card backplate that take up two pci slots but i got one that takes up one.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/modules.p...index&req=viewarticle&artid=117&page=1

http://www.dansdata.com/vgasilencer.htm

see how the backplate has holes for dvi, vga and tv out? well mine is not dual stacked like that, mine just has a seperate pci mounting plate with the switch and nothing else. is that a design change or...?
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i wouldn't suggest running it with fan unplugged, but it will definetly warm up faster that way:) as far as the backplate, i guess it could be nothing more than a design change...
 
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imported_Reck

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well i tried that and it got really hot but still wouldn't come off. *sighs*

edit: sucess! i got it off with a credit card.
 
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edit: i had a similiar problem with my GF3 ti200, and you're right it uses a thermal pad instead of paste, the suggestion i mention above is what i had to do to remove the heatsink. also to remove the remains of the pad from the core i saturated the GPU with 91% alcohol, and then used a DL to "scrape" the rest of the pad from the GPU.
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hope that helps
 
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imported_Reck

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i got as much of it off as i could and there's still a film over the core. god damn what a pain in the ass. i'm guessing im gonna have to use some kind of chemicals to get this **** off. any sugestions?
 
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