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Thermalright V1 Ultra Installation problem

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davwar

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HI, I have a question regarding the V1 Ultra. When I place the heatsink on the retention bracket and tighen the screws it pulls up on the bracket and loses a good connection with the GPU. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks for any help!
 
I had to do a couple of things:

a) make sure I was using the right thickness of pad on the memory chip - with one of the pads, I couldn't screw down enough and temps just soared enormously, so make sure you're using the appropriate one.

b) tighten each screw a little bit at a time so the cooler goes down in an even fashion. This way I got a very nice fit, and very nice temperature reduction (about -15C under load compared to the stock cooler on the X1900XT 🙂).

Which card are you installing it on?
 
I'm installing it on the X1900XT also. While idle I get about 56 degrees, but when I tried out the FEAR performance test ATI Tool showed the max temperature hitting 108 degrees. Is that normal for the temperature to spike like that?
 
Also think I may have messed my card up while installing the heatsink. When I start up windows the screen is corrupted. Once it boots up totally it slowly gets better until its fine, but when I try anything (even just opening internet explorer) it will corrupt or lose signal.
 
Hmm, that doesn't sound too good. My core idles about 45-50, gets up to mid-70s-ish under load. Is the fan up full? Have you got decent airflow that'll let the heat get out of the case?

If you take the block off, can you see that you got a nice even contact between the core and the block? Nothing came off or anything when you put it on, did it?

EDIT: the bracket should pull right up so it's flush to the heatsink at all points, but the block should still get a nice contact with the core.
 
Well I put the stock heatsink on to try it out and I still get the corruption and signal shut down problems. I guess its possible I damaged it when putting on the heatsink, the side with the fan did rub/hit the back side a few times. Might have to get a new one and just keep the stock heatsink on.
 
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