gf2 gts hsf combo

[JOJO]

just got my gf2 gts, finally upped from my v3 2000, haha,

is there anyway that i can take the heatsink/fan off and slap some artic silver down there, or would i just mess up the gpu if i tried to take it off...

thanks

 

[flavio321]

you can take it off. take a look at project duron part 1 thru 4 at www.athlonoc.com

If you can't beat 'em kill 'em
athlon "SLOTA" thunderbird 700@1050mhz

 

[JOJO]

yeah... neat article, but that's an mx, my gts already has a neat little fan....

i was wondering if i could take the actual heatsink off, so i could put some silver between the heat sink and the gpu....

 

[flavio321]

just take it off. the mx has the exact same .18 micron gpu as the geforcegts. you've got to squeeze a flat-head screw driver between the hs and the fan. if you think you are going to damage your vcard then just leave it the way it is.

If you can't beat 'em kill 'em
athlon "SLOTA" thunderbird 700@1050mhz

 

[Unolocogringo]

ok heres a little trick ,put your video card in a plastic bag and tie it up tight,now put it in another bag and tie it tight also . put the card in the freezer for about 30 min,the bags keep moisture from getting on the card while in freezer.now quickly remove card from freezer and open,place a credit card or similar card on video card where you want to pry and use a small blade screwdriver to pry of the heatsink the credit card protects the pcb boardfrom being scratched or damaged

 

[Crashman]

Why would you want to do that? Card manufacturers use thermal epoxy, som pretty good stuff. I don't think you'll see any improvements. Besides, overclocking the GPU by 10% will only get you a 1% performance improvement. Vidoe Ram speed is the bottleneck, put some heatsinks on the memory and push it to it's max.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[JOJO]

oh, i wasn't sure crash.... i just saw that the card was running at 46C and figured that was a little hot, and maybe they didn't use a good compound.
But the ram heatsinks...hmmm....

Any idea on how hot the gpu's spose to run at?

 

[Crashman]

Yes, my gts does 380MHz memory, at 390MHz it overheats-I can tell it's a heat problem because it occurs several minutes into running 3D-mark 2k. But I really didn't need to go faster anyway.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[JOJO]

what do you get on mark 2000 anyway?

 

[Crashman]

7400@933
7500@980
7540@1000
System Spec:
PIII 700
Asus CUSL2
128MB Crucial Cas2
Visiontek (generic OEM) GeForce2 GTS @ 220/380
20GB Maxtor 7200RPM HDD
Gateway VX900@1024x768
Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI
STB TVPCI
3com 10/100 NIC
Sony SCSI CDRW
Generic 48x CD-ROM
Seagate 7200RPM SCSI HDD
SCSI Zip,
98SE



Suicide is painless...........

 

[Unolocogringo]

not a bad thing to do ,when i took mine off the epoxy only covered a little over half of the chip,it was all on one side real thick so you may have the same problem or you may need case cooling