CAREFUL on video cards!!!!!! LOOK!!!

[bioevolve]

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.
That die has a super mirror shine!!! I also removed the cap off the other video card and did the same.
Running about 5-7c cooler now!!!!!

 

[ssjwizard]

Good job.

On another note if you were using FC blocks this would not work.

 

[bioevolve]

True, and stock h/s&fan would not work either.
Unless you used a filler/spacer, like a copper cold plate or something like that.
Would have to be the same thickness or just reuse the cap carefully.

 

[Davidleebjr]

I'm looking bio.. .. what card is that? I doubt it... but please don't say a GTX 550ti

 

[bioevolve]

Galaxy 56NPH6HS4IXX GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP.

 

[Frakk]

I do reapply Thermal Compound probably way more then i need to as i run a constant high overclock, but lucky for me my GPU has no heat spreader...

Makes me sweat every time i do it with AS5, that stuff conducts like copper wire.

 

[bioevolve]

I do reapply Thermal Compound probably way more then i need to as i run a constant high overclock, but lucky for me my GPU has no heat spreader...

Makes me sweat every time i do it with AS5, that stuff conducts like copper wire.

You are lucky yours is made that way.