INtel Stock HSF for vid cards?

[DeathScyth_Hell]

I always hear people in the forum say "use the intel stock hsf for your vid card??...
The question is...do you need to mod the HSF for it to fit onto the GPU or...is it coincidently made that it could fit onto the gpu just the way it is??

[Kingslayer]

Most people take the clip off and then either using Artic Silver epoxy or ASII and superglue stick it to the GPU. But you loose like 2 PCI slots and to me it's just pure overkill. Especially on Radeons. It might be a good trick for those hot GFarce cards, but a Radeon is a cool GPU anything more than a Blorb or a 486 HSF is overkill.

[DeathScyth_Hell]

So do you think that Blorb would be enough for a Gforce 2 card??...is arcitc silver strong enough to hold the fan onto the cpu??

[el]

yes and no use AS epoxy and it will hold! also many people have holes near the hsf on video cards and you can just line up the retail intel hsf and then mark and finally drill it and use screws to attach it. the screw + a little as epoxy and the thing won't go anywhere. I recommend mixing the as epoxy adn regular epoxy 1:1 and use the screw and then you will be able to get it off if you ever want to remove it.

[Silversinksam]

Originally posted by el
yes and no use AS epoxy and it will hold! also many people have holes near the hsf on video cards and you can just line up the retail intel hsf and then mark and finally drill it and use screws to attach it. the screw + a little as epoxy and the thing won't go anywhere. I recommend mixing the as epoxy adn regular epoxy 1:1 and use the screw and then you will be able to get it off if you ever want to remove it.



Epoxy +Epoxy = Epoxy :p



Read this thread its a good one regarding cooling GF cards:

http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35853


If your to lazy to hit the link heres a better way to use Arctic Silver Epoxy+ Regular Arctic silver II:

I have found that arctic silver adhesive works best with this ratio

Mix the Arctic silver in this blend

1 part Arctic Silver epoxy part A
1 part Arctic Silver epoxy part B
1 part regular arctic silver II

Arctic silver's website recommends a formula of 50% part A and 50% part B if its permenent

and 50%part A and B and 50% Arctic Silver II if the HSF is to be removed at a later time

I find my ratio of 1part A adhesive
1part B adhesive
1part regular arctic silver II

works best as and is stronger and will hold the weight of the Alpha easily:

There is also another trick

Mix up this formula :

1part A adhesive
1part B adhesive
1part regular arctic silver II

And apply it only to the corners of the gpu approximatly one sqr centimeter on each side in the corners. and use regular Arctic silver on the rest of the GPU.

THis works well and is my current method that I used when I affixed my Alpha15u

And you can get Arctic Silver adhesive here for $9.99 shipped


http://svcompucycle.com/arsiltherad.html

[SickBoy]

Yeah a lot of people use their stock HSF from their boxed Coppermine or Celly to cool the video card. I won't add any more on how to do it, it's been fairly well covered. I will say, though, that I strapped a 40 CFM YS Tech to mine instead of the anemic fan that it comes with (I have the larger P3 OEM sink) and it cools my K6-2 VERY VERY well.... like, so well that I had never had my K6-2 below 33 C or so... and the YS Tech got it down to 24 C in a 22 C room (at idle). Amazing!!

So the moral of my story is the OEM Intel HSF is actually a good cooler if you've got an older socket7 chip you want to cool/overclock, just put a good fan on the sucker and you're good to go.

SickBoy

[Silversinksam]

sickboy, Only problem with affixing a PIII HSF on the Gpu is you lose PCI slot 1-3 and many mobos lower PCI slots are shared and although you can reassaign the IRQ's theres nothing like slapping an Alpha pal 15u or a AOC rackmount iu cooler to a gpu as they are mostly under 25 mill. including the fan, a blue orbage is 15 mill in height.

[!-=sky=-!]

the p3 heatsinks are good but true they do take up lots of pci slots

using one for my geforce256

it's really really relalyy hot

[el]

yeah I meant 1part AS2 and 1part AS epoxy not epoxy and more epoxy!

[The Overclocker]

stock heatsinks, pah. i have a fop32 on my geforce 2 mx

[[OC]_SR20DE]

Originally posted by the overclocker
stock heatsinks, pah. i have a fop32 on my geforce 2 mx
LOL :p :) :D