---ARGHHH Die MOFO 4600---

[Starfoxer]

i have an eVga GF4600 as some of you may know :rolleyes: ;)

and i had some nice overclocks out of it. 325/750
so of course, being me, i got greedy and lapped the
GPU HSF and used as3. ever sense then i could never
get the mofo to work right.

it won't run 3dm, freezes on the first game screen, but it's
really dark.

all my games freeze in starting menus. and i think i fubared
it somewhere.

i touch the back of the card and it is HOT, enough to really
burn your finger. the HSF on the front is super warm. won't
do anything at stock with 53cfm in the front and back blowing
on the card.

it is fine when surfing the web or idling the vid card

so i guess i need a place that sells push pins so i can try
and remount it...or maybe a new cooler, do the Thermal take
coolers come with mounting stuff?

thanks!

[The Spyder]

get ZIPTIES dude!!! OR you fried the GPU by lapping it then putting AS3 on bc AS3 is conductive and if it was too much.... u scred....

[eli]

AS3 on the GPU isn't that great from what people have been saying. Someone earlier was complaining about there 9700 doing crappy by doing the exact same thing... putting AS3 on the GPU and super glueing it or something. I have personally done the mod, and it works fine, but i haven't tried to overclock.

[Lt. Max]

mab when u put the heatsink of the card back on it didnt fit right cause u said back was super hot front was warm.. put a fan on the back to cool it down see if it helps or reseat the heatsink on teh gpu

[DAGO]

Had a similar experience with an old GF2MX which would not run 3DMk past the 3rd section before crashing back to the desktop...
I finally figured out that it was the fan had crapped out cause when I continued to attempt to run the benchmark, repeatedly over and over, the thing got super hot and would actually burn your finger if you touched the back of the card behind the GPU...
Sadly, a new fan did not help out much at all...Once you subject them to that kind of heat, the damage is done...
It would still go on the net and display jpegs, etc., but it never did play another game without crapping out within the first minute...
Dead, was all he said...:(

[ssjwizard]

that quite sucks ass.

[BinarySuperman]

i guess free things come with a price. no1 listens when i say overclocking kills, now why couldn't u just leave the vidcard alone? but no we at overclockers.com have to lap everything, cases, heatsinks, cpu's, gpu's soon soundcard chips then hdd's:D

[safemode]

lapping my soundcard gives me an overclock of up in the 50Khz sample range. I be hearing ****t nobody can. PHear.


Anyways seriously. Why would you superglue a heatsink down on the proc? Did you breath too much of the fumes from it? There are thermally conductive epoxies for this purpose. Superglue is not one of them.

[Starfoxer]

i do have a big fat 80mm 52CFM fan blowing directly on the front
and on the black.

it works fine when ideling the vid card

when i start 3dm, it fades to REALLY DARK then my whole PC freezes.

i have arctic alumina epoxy but as some of you may know this aint my card!!>?! :rolleyes: ;)

so that stuff is perdy permanent. i did scratch some traces when
trying to unscrew stuff and pinch the push pins, but i don't think
that would do it.

maybe i dont have enough pressure cuz when i removed the old
crappy thermal crap it was pretty damn thick

maybe i could use part A or B from the epoxy, but i don't know
what is what, then use zip ties like said before. hmmmmm
help!

[eli]

You just put a little super glue in the corners of the GPU. It never actually touches the die. On my Geforce 3, the GPU die is round.

[Penguin4x4]

Originally posted by Starfoxer
so that stuff is perdy permanent. i did scratch some traces when
trying to unscrew stuff and pinch the push pins, but i don't think
that would do it.

Oh yes it can!:eek:

[wildfrogman]

The cut traces are what probably killed, that card, and possibly adding to lots of resistance and making the card draw way to much power and cooking itself as it trys to work. :(

[Starfoxer]

damnit! noooooo

okay, so wut do yall say to another X ops of switching back to my 8500?

[Ugmore Baggage]

Hee hee my stock MX440 scores higher than your OC'd 4600
Sorry I just had to say that.

I think it's a litle early to completely give up on it. I'd try plapping a pad back on before I did that.

[Iron Hawk]

I think there is somone in the clasifides section that know how to fix graphics cards, you may want to send him a PM.