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- Jun 9, 2001
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Yesterday I notice my second video card temps were very high 100c!!!!
Then my computer locked up, I thought maybe the water blcok came loose.
Nope, I re-applied, nope. Maybe bad water block, nope. Tried the stock heat sink and fan, nope. After many times of re-appling thermal paste between water block and stock h/s&fan, when removing the stock h/s&fan the cap came off of the GPU proc!!!! I was like WTF!!!!! Then I realized why the temps were so high and so fast to climb. It was not making contact!
Under the gpu proc cap is thermal goop with a copper cap that is coated with nickel or aluminum, that has worked it way loose. The adhesive has weakend. So just be careful when re-appling many time lol.
So I decied to just for go the cap all together and mount the water block on the die directly. In essence, cut out the middle man lol. Careful not to crunch/chip the die. Like the old days for the Athlon XP/MP chips. I remember chipping a few of those lol.![Thumbs Up :thup: :thup:](/forums/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif)
That die has a super mirror shine!!! I also removed the cap off the other video card and did the same.![Attention :attn: :attn:](/forums/oc_images/images/smilies/head_bang.gif)
Running about 5-7c cooler now!!!!!
Then my computer locked up, I thought maybe the water blcok came loose.
Nope, I re-applied, nope. Maybe bad water block, nope. Tried the stock heat sink and fan, nope. After many times of re-appling thermal paste between water block and stock h/s&fan, when removing the stock h/s&fan the cap came off of the GPU proc!!!! I was like WTF!!!!! Then I realized why the temps were so high and so fast to climb. It was not making contact!
Under the gpu proc cap is thermal goop with a copper cap that is coated with nickel or aluminum, that has worked it way loose. The adhesive has weakend. So just be careful when re-appling many time lol.
![videodiecap (1).jpg](http://www.freedomcomputers.net/watercooling/videodiecap/videodiecap (1).jpg)
![videodiecap (2).jpg](http://www.freedomcomputers.net/watercooling/videodiecap/videodiecap (2).jpg)
![videodiecap (3).jpg](http://www.freedomcomputers.net/watercooling/videodiecap/videodiecap (3).jpg)
![videodiecap (4).jpg](http://www.freedomcomputers.net/watercooling/videodiecap/videodiecap (4).jpg)
So I decied to just for go the cap all together and mount the water block on the die directly. In essence, cut out the middle man lol. Careful not to crunch/chip the die. Like the old days for the Athlon XP/MP chips. I remember chipping a few of those lol.
![Thumbs Up :thup: :thup:](/forums/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif)
That die has a super mirror shine!!! I also removed the cap off the other video card and did the same.
![Attention :attn: :attn:](/forums/oc_images/images/smilies/head_bang.gif)
Running about 5-7c cooler now!!!!!
![videodiecap (5).jpg](http://www.freedomcomputers.net/watercooling/videodiecap/videodiecap (5).jpg)
![videodiecap (6).jpg](http://www.freedomcomputers.net/watercooling/videodiecap/videodiecap (6).jpg)