The Way It's Meant To Be Cooled

Duff-Man · 18 May 2007 at 21:29

Don't blame nvidia, blame the Taiwanese sweatshop workers who piece together the cards from the machine-made components.

Darkwave · 18 May 2007 at 21:29

Noxis said:
Not OCUK of course I am RMAing my Asus EN8800 next few days, bought special Arctic Silver remover and the nastiest cheapest paste I could find

Should have just used a rag.

Mekrel · 18 May 2007 at 21:42

i would imagine that pads etc are put on either by a machine or a person who hasn't got a clue how to turn a pc on let alone how thermal paste works and what it does.

Dingleberry88 · 18 May 2007 at 21:49

I'm in the middle of lapping my CPU, so while I've got the case open I might do this aswell.

Do I need thermal pads for the memory, or will AS5 be OK? I ask because the pads are quite a bit thicker than paste. Does everything still make contact OK without them?

Darkwave · 18 May 2007 at 21:50

Dingleberry88 said:
I'm in the middle of lapping my CPU, so while I've got the case open I might do this aswell.

Do I need thermal pads for the memory, or will AS5 be OK? I ask because the pads are quite a bit thicker than paste. Does everything still make contact OK without them?

There's quite a gap, no way you'd make contact without pads IMO.

The pads also cover what looks like four or five sets of voltage regulators.

Dingleberry88 · 18 May 2007 at 21:53

Ah, so did you just reuse the stock pads, or are you waiting to put it back together until you can find some fresh ones?

Darkwave · 18 May 2007 at 21:54

Dingleberry88 said:
Ah, so did you just reuse the stock pads, or are you waiting to put it back together until you can find some fresh ones?

Actually I took them off and threw them away as they were falling apart and utterly useless anyway.

This memory doesn't run hot, I used to run my X1900 with naked memory just fine, and I plan to have some new pads by next week anyway if I can find somewhere that sells them.

Dingleberry88 · 18 May 2007 at 21:58

In that case I think I'll give it a miss until I can get hold of some pads too.

fornowagain · 18 May 2007 at 22:51

This is the type of stuff you want, 3M 5509

Link

snowdog · 18 May 2007 at 23:05

Nvidia's mess?
Don't subcompany's like bfg/asus/xfx/etc... care for the cooling?

Darkwave · 18 May 2007 at 23:07

snowdog said:
Nvidia's mess?
Don't subcompany's like bfg/asus/xfx/etc... care for the cooling?

Already been covered further up the thread.

The fact remains that I've not had one graphics card since the late '90s that hasn't made me take it apart, clean and re-seat it so maybe Nvidia and ATI should be encouraging their OEMs not to be so half arsed about it.

So yes, I am still going to be blaming Nvidia for this one. BFG too.

DampCat · 18 May 2007 at 23:18

Is there another awesome GPU cooler that isnt quite as... ostentatious as the ThermalRight HR-03 PLUS?

Stock cooler on the Gainward 7900GS isnt so great

Gerard · 20 May 2007 at 00:45

The 2900 funnily enough has really well applied thermal material on the core, was a perfect covering. Funny thing was the actual core has absoloutely no text on it at all, no r600 or code numbers, whole cores just a black diamond and nothing more. :confused:

Darkwave · 20 May 2007 at 00:46

Gerard said:
The 2900 funnily enough has really well applied thermal material on the core, was a perfect covering. Funny thing was the actual core has absoloutely no text on it at all, no r600 or code numbers, whole cores just a black diamond and nothing more.

How bizarre. :confused:

Tom|Nbk · 20 May 2007 at 00:46

Gerard said:
The 2900 funnily enough has really well applied thermal material on the core, was a perfect covering. Funny thing was the actual core has absoloutely no text on it at all, no r600 or code numbers, whole cores just a black diamond and nothing more.

Just as i thought, I had a feeling the paste was well applied to these, but WTF @ blank core :confused:

Gerard · 20 May 2007 at 00:47

Tom|Nbk said:
Just as i thought, I had a feeling the paste was well applied to these, but WTF @ blank core

I found it pretty odd myself, ive never seen a core before with no text on it, just looked like a little black mirror.

Squakingcow · 20 May 2007 at 00:48

Tom|Nbk said:
WTF @ blank core

I saw a review (TPU I think)where they said the core was blank, but I just assumed that was because it wasn't a retail core. Evidently not...

Tom|Nbk · 20 May 2007 at 00:53

Gerard said:
I found it pretty odd myself, ive never seen a core before with no text on it, just looked like a little black mirror.

Wonder if Jokesters was the same?, what have you used to replace the Stock cooling..

Gerard · 20 May 2007 at 00:58

Tom|Nbk said:
Wonder if Jokesters was the same?, what have you used to replace the Stock cooling..

Just reseated the original cooler after redoing the compound. Wanted to see if it was making proper contact with the core.

Darg · 29 May 2007 at 10:14

DampCat said:
Is there another awesome GPU cooler that isnt quite as... ostentatious as the ThermalRight HR-03 PLUS?

Stock cooler on the Gainward 7900GS isnt so great

Zalman VF-900-CU works brilliant on a 7900GS. Temps never reached above 45C even with volt-modding and big overclocks.

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