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woodenman80
08-28-01, 05:19 AM
Hmmm i need some serious advice.
Ive got a A7v with a duron in it and the graphics card is a geforce ddr from creative. But Houston we have a problem this card is unclocked. But hot real hot. I have 2 case fans in this system reasonable 80mm ones and the case is coowl the proccessor is c00wl but the Geforce is far from cool the heatsink and fan are still in place and the fan spins i can see it. But boy is this sod hot. i burnt my fingers yesterday after touching the heatsink for about 1 second. :).. And this was after 1hr of intensive web browsing lol lol.. Anybody got any reasons could the geforce just be getting knackered ????? i dont know....:mad:
Woodenman
The Overclocker
08-28-01, 05:37 AM
i doubt it will blow up, you could fry a egg on my old tnt, with the tnt, the whold board got hot, suggesting it was the memory getting hot not the core its self, go buy a blue orb and memory heatsinks from overclockingstore.co.uk, that should fix it
Originally posted by the overclocker
i doubt it will blow up, you could fry a egg on my old tnt, with the tnt, the whold board got hot, suggesting it was the memory getting hot not the core its self, go buy a blue orb and memory heatsinks from overclockingstore.co.uk, that should fix it
Orbs are just for looks... If you can spare the PCI slot adjacent to your GF, then go find a few old Pentium heatsink and saw them up to size. Glue them to your GPU using thermal paste and super glue at the sides and do the same for mounting HS on the memory modules. Waaaaay cheaper than having to buy a orb and retail mem sink. For a fan you can just slap an 80mm across/ in front of your GF -use your imagination.
The Overclocker
08-28-01, 01:16 PM
Originally posted by cjtune
Orbs are just for looks... If you can spare the PCI slot adjacent to your GF, then go find a few old Pentium heatsink and saw them up to size. Glue them to your GPU using thermal paste and super glue at the sides and do the same for mounting HS on the memory modules. Waaaaay cheaper than having to buy a orb and retail mem sink. For a fan you can just slap an 80mm across/ in front of your GF -use your imagination.
yeh, i know but it is better then the stock one, i have a fop32 on my geforce
hey I did a mod on mine, that you might wan to try. I used an o-ring that I found a the hardware store and an old 586 fan. Adding a fan like this dropped the back temps by AT LEAST 10 degrees if not more.
Mod on
Rob
I haven't done this myself, but it's very interesting...
The Copperfoot Blorb (http://www.overclockers.com/tips465/)
Besides losing the PCIO slot below the AGP slot - is it safe to place a fan on top of the GF card blowing out from it? with an attached HS there? I notice my GEForce2 GTS gets a little on the warm side - nothing I have worried about yet, but if it can be cold I want it cold.
Mord-Sith
08-28-01, 10:49 PM
I put a golden orb on my gf1 256 ddr and the back side still gets hot. I think Im going to get a thermaltake volcano from work tomorrow and try to get a northbridge hsf off a dead mobo and put that on the back side. should work fine.
How did you attach your fop? Glue or zip ties
Originally posted by jbell
Besides losing the PCIO slot below the AGP slot - is it safe to place a fan on top of the GF card blowing out from it? with an attached HS there? I notice my GEForce2 GTS gets a little on the warm side - nothing I have worried about yet, but if it can be cold I want it cold.
Why not? Go get another fan and slap it there as well. Just make sure you secure the fan nicely of else there's a danger of it coming off and zzznnnrp! you're suddenly less a few mobo capacitors.
LOL hard to tell if your being sarcastic or making a light joke - I think the latter of the two, Just a thought to help move hot air more towards my back case fans, and of course anythign less than secure would be unacceptable!! seems like heatsink are going on everything now... I have one on the bottom of my AGP w/a fan so mayeb one on top or one blowing across the top.... (looks around office for spare fans)
woodenman80
08-29-01, 03:11 AM
Ahh ive solved the geforce problem and have machined up a aluminium water block with a CNC milling machine. Will finish making lid and putting in fittings today, Then i will take a RHO fan and heatsink with thermal tape and attach to back side of geforce just to help the old girl cewl :)...
I dont like the idea of monster heatsinks and noisy old fans so i feel that a small water jacket will be just fine:)..
Woodenman
I have a basic geforce2mx, and I'm running into the same problems. The stock heatsink on it is virtually useless, as it and the board are hot to the touch. i can't keep my fingers on it for ANY amount of time. And this is right after startup, before running any gfx intensive programs. **sigh**
Well, I'll be getting something for it this weekend, it's a bit discouraging to see something like this happening. And the board (nvidia) puts the chips on the underside of the board (std ATX case, meaning the heat from the HS spreads out and heats the rest of the GFX board! Annoying to say the least!
Kid
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!-=sky=-!
08-29-01, 12:55 PM
i replaced the original fan that came with my geforce256 sdr with a celeron heatsink........there goes two pci slots but.....it sure is a lot better than the orginal one
The Overclocker
08-29-01, 01:15 PM
Originally posted by woodenman80
Ahh ive solved the geforce problem and have machined up a aluminium water block with a CNC milling machine. Will finish making lid and putting in fittings today, Then i will take a RHO fan and heatsink with thermal tape and attach to back side of geforce just to help the old girl cewl :)...
I dont like the idea of monster heatsinks and noisy old fans so i feel that a small water jacket will be just fine:)..
Woodenman
wow, you could have told us a bit more, i dont understand how someone can go out and make a waterblock, there is no place to do it near me
woodenman80
08-29-01, 03:26 PM
wow, you could have told us a bit more, i dont understand how someone can go out and make a waterblock, there is no place to do it near me
Well its not just by my doing. I have found it very annoying in the UK and europe in general the poor supply and quality of well priced water cooling goods. I recently few months ago bought a water jacket from BE cooling from the states and the prices for the block were reasonable but postage was killer the block was of acceptable/good standard and arrived rapidly but i feel that the design can be improved and also the cost could be cut seeing as i have access to quality copper and aluminium at low price due to the fact that we seem to have large quantitys around.... (the benefits of a disused army base i live on I suppose except hand grenades etc in the fields lol) But (bloody long post sorry) recently I have decided to design and hopefully manufacture reasonable priced water jackets. (both in copper and aluminium) for pcs. And it also helps having access to a CNC milling machine and design programs.. plus a school friend who is an advanced engeering student who works for a large multinational in electronics. plus access to a thermal dynamics engineer. (phil thanx if ya read this :cool: ) If you are intrested anybody in UK icq me and i will get back to ya. Plus im also building at present nearly completely silent water cooled system so will post ya schematics if it works.... bulky at moment though.... :)
Hopefully i dont sound like a lamer addman as its all preliminary i have the kit to do it thats all ..... but if overclockers can get cheap goods at high quality im happy :)....
Woodenman
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