HELP

[magno]

hi, i'm here to say that a have put my PIII 800 working at 900,1.70v, and it is stable like a rock, my cofiguration is: PIII 800EB, Asus CUV4X, 128 Mb ram pc133 oem, goden orb, elsa gladiac 2 mx, my problem was with the video card, but only what i have to do was to reduce agp multuplier from 4x to 1x, and i also disable the sideband, but i want to put my video card at least at 2x, what you guys recommend me to do put a blue orb in the video card it's my idea, but i don't hnow how to do it, shes has a kind of heatsink atached to the chip with no cooler, how to take it of, and how to put the blue orb is my idea, please help-me

[Jon]

Most of these heatsinks are just glued on weakly with some epoxy. Usually you can stck it in the freezer for about 20 minutes or so which will make this epoxy a bit more brittle. You can then take a small flat-edged screwdriver, wedge it under the heatsink and twist lightly. This will pop it off. Make sure you slide a piece of cardboard in between the screwdriver and card so you won't damage it (I broke a small resistor off this way...powderized it. Still works fine though.)

BlOrb will go on the same way. Sand remaining epoxy off and either use some regular thermal paste with small amount of superglue at the corners of the GPU or get some of the Arctic Silver Epoxy which acts as both a conductor and adhesive.

Not as hard as it may sound...

[Tim-]

I would try opening the case, and blowing a household fan into it. If this additional cooling cures the problem, then I would worry about the fan on the video card. If it doesn't help, the problem is not cooling related.

[Slake]

Glad I read this post. Great advise Jon and Tim. I have wondered about this myselfI was afraid to try and force it off. How about the greenie on a chip set?
You wouldn't want to put the mobo in the deep freeze would ya? I don't see why not though, hell a PCB is a PCB is A PCB.