My soundcards heatsink fell off!

slipd · 10 Oct 2008 at 01:40

Hey guys,

Opened up my case today only to notice that my Audigy Xfi's heatsink has detached as per my pics

Any ideas how I should re-attach it? What sort of adhesive to use etc. I'd probably give the chipset a quick clean with my cpu cleaner before any re-attaching

Cheers,

SW.

fini · 10 Oct 2008 at 01:42

I think it's thermal epoxy that you want - arctic silver do some.

benjo · 10 Oct 2008 at 01:44

fini said:
I think it's thermal epoxy that you want - arctic silver do some.

Indeed

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...ubcat=27&name=Arctic Silver Thermal Epoxy (7g)

Just clean off the left overs, and re-apply just like a cpu heatsink.

agw_01 · 10 Oct 2008 at 01:51

Soundcards have heatsinks :eek:

benjo · 10 Oct 2008 at 01:58

agw_01 said:
Soundcards have heatsinks

Get with the times :cool:

Strife212 · 10 Oct 2008 at 02:06

agw_01 said:
Soundcards have heatsinks

Yeah the new ones

tigerstyle · 10 Oct 2008 at 10:00

or... normal arctic silver on 99% of the chip, but put a small dot of regular superglue at each corner of the chip and then hold until the glue dries. Sorted, you can also if you want mix in the AS with glue to make your own epoxy, but I don't know the ratios, a spot in each corner will probably work better!

MeatLoaf · 10 Oct 2008 at 10:20

My X-Fi dosent have a heatsink, they didnt when they first came out. Id imagine its fine without it tbh

iviv · 10 Oct 2008 at 11:11

The original graphics cards didn't have heatsinks. Fancy running a 4870 without its heatsink?

PwnDirect · 10 Oct 2008 at 11:14

iviv said:
The original graphics cards didn't have heatsinks. Fancy running a 4870 without its heatsink?

you frist & record it

Tetsu · 10 Oct 2008 at 11:16

agw_01 said:
Soundcards have heatsinks

*Whips back into cave*

EvilOne · 10 Oct 2008 at 11:18

If they have heat sinks, does that mean they can be replaced with 3rd party coolers and overclocked ?

jaybee · 10 Oct 2008 at 11:24

hehe, an overclocked soundcard. Try the Artic Thermal Expoxy Compound thingy.

HERE

reflux · 10 Oct 2008 at 11:25

EvilOne said:
If they have heat sinks, does that mean they can be replaced with 3rd party coolers and overclocked ?

Hahah, overclocking your sound card, now that's a new one.

iviv · 10 Oct 2008 at 11:33

BIOS mod it for 7.1 support?

iBot · 10 Oct 2008 at 12:03

do most people take the performance hit and run onboard sound these days?

agw_01 · 10 Oct 2008 at 12:23

benjo said:
Get with the times

Tetsu said:
*Whips back into cave*

lol, leave me alone

I didn't move away from Socket A until earlier this year

bledd · 10 Oct 2008 at 12:25

iBot said:
do most people take the performance hit and run onboard sound these days?

i had to for a while, the difference in sound quality between the xfi and my realtekhd was pretty drastic

deffo worth getting an xfi music or xonar dx, they're about £50 ish each

i care more about the sound quality than the 1-10% ingame performance increase

agw_01 · 10 Oct 2008 at 12:27

I've just taken delivery of an M-Audio card... I was pretty impressed with the onboard audio (coming from an Audigy Platinum

) on my Asus P5K but am seriously looking forward to trying this new card. I was always a bit of a "pft, onboard sound" snob until I heard the onboard Realtek chip... onboard stuff is pretty good these days.

I'm using Vista 64... with an M-Audio card... good luck to me eh?

!TIMMY! · 10 Oct 2008 at 12:28

Artic Thermal Expoxy is pretty good. I used it to stick on a chipset cooler after my ring mounts fell out.

Id love to oc my X-Fi lol

Almost as good as ocing my router.