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navyseal2101   08-27-2006 at 12:35:40 AM

I can use arctic silver on a video card too right? Just making sure.

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SuperK86   08-27-2006 at 01:06:54 AM
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Absolutely. I mirror finished the bottom of my video coolers and applied arctic silver compound. Shaved a few celcius of heat off. Great results, it's a pain to remove the tape if that's what your cooler has, though. Do it!

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Qisa   08-30-2006 at 01:18:28 AM
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Just be very careful to keep the compound on the heatsink and chip surface and not any of the surrounding circuitry. I recently burnt out my Radeon 9800 that way. :roll:

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SuperK86   08-30-2006 at 03:21:43 AM
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I mirror the HS finished my Geforce2 Ti back in the day when the GF3 was hot off the block, and I was young and stupid. Apparently I tried to make some ramsinks out of homemade material... and my silver seeped and shorted some circuits. bit of smoke, didn't smell too good... I cleaned it off and reinstalled drivers. Card worked like a charm, still does.

That, my friend, is what you cal n00b luck. Hot, steamy, still-in-high-school n00b luck.

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