hey you all,
i know this is going to sound stupid but please bear with me. been stuck with GeForce MX 4000 for couple of months now, got bored so i got the FX 5200 from MSI today.
finally i could play Thief: Deadly Shadows!!!
neway, my real question here is this. when i was buying, the guy said it doesn't have a fan. so i got a fan separately and asked the guy to fix it on for me (feel stupid here).
freaked out when he yanked out the heatsink (my 1 yr warranty is void now for that stunt). he tested the card for me with the fan installed, but the fan kept bein' static. so i asked the guy to fix back the heatsink.
1. so what is it with heatsinks and fan?
2. which is better?
3. am i stupid or what for that stunt?
4. can play ThiefS but with Painkiller and Hitman 3, i
can hear the sound but the screen's blank, what's up
with that?
5. could the card get damaged by repeated yanking and re-
inserting of the abovementioned components?
6. last one, promise, when the guy initially installed the
fan, he smeared a white liquid on the GPU. i freaked out
thinking he was gluing the fan onto the GPU. the guy
said it wasn't no glue but to help the surface contact
for the cooling. since i have the heatsink back on,
could this be a potential problem?
i'd truly appreciate if you guys can enlighten me on these issues. thanks a lot.
i know this is going to sound stupid but please bear with me. been stuck with GeForce MX 4000 for couple of months now, got bored so i got the FX 5200 from MSI today.
finally i could play Thief: Deadly Shadows!!!
neway, my real question here is this. when i was buying, the guy said it doesn't have a fan. so i got a fan separately and asked the guy to fix it on for me (feel stupid here).
freaked out when he yanked out the heatsink (my 1 yr warranty is void now for that stunt). he tested the card for me with the fan installed, but the fan kept bein' static. so i asked the guy to fix back the heatsink.
1. so what is it with heatsinks and fan?
2. which is better?
3. am i stupid or what for that stunt?
4. can play ThiefS but with Painkiller and Hitman 3, i
can hear the sound but the screen's blank, what's up
with that?
5. could the card get damaged by repeated yanking and re-
inserting of the abovementioned components?
6. last one, promise, when the guy initially installed the
fan, he smeared a white liquid on the GPU. i freaked out
thinking he was gluing the fan onto the GPU. the guy
said it wasn't no glue but to help the surface contact
for the cooling. since i have the heatsink back on,
could this be a potential problem?
i'd truly appreciate if you guys can enlighten me on these issues. thanks a lot.