the death of my beloved 4400

[kaltag]

in an attempt to cool my geforce 4 better i attached a copper athlon xp heatsink to it when temps didn't go down, in fact they went up, i tried to remove it and ended up with this result. the GPU is torn in half!!! that some damn strong glue!!! oh well i'll put up with my all in wonder until nv30

 

[kaltag]

here's the part that went with the heatsink

 

[grim]

wow that sucks

 

[Doofie27cp2]

man thats some expensive toys your messin up there. Well now ppl know, LOL sorry bud, but now otherr ppl know not to use cpu coolers on GPU's.

 

[JimboZ88]

heehee

i have a ti4400 and would cry like a blubberin' baby if that happened! Oh, and you might wanna update your sig., maybe stating how you DON'T have a ti4400 anymore...

Once more i must say...OUCH

 

[kaltag]

yes i should

 

[notasparagus]

If only I could joke around with things like that, if that happened to me, I would be soooooo mad.

 

[Disputant]

My condolences...

 

[Crazy Jayhawk]

What kind of glue did you use, anyway?

 

[CrystalMethod]

Dude, that bites the big, wet, nasty left one...
When's the funeral?

 

[Penguin4x4]

When's the funeral?

Electric Funeral right?

 

[Tbird man]

for the furneral use one of these scroll down to the VGA killer. you couls get all the parts at radio shack.

 

[FunkDaMonkMan]

OMG LOL!!!

that's some funny stuff..

 

[kaltag]

i feel better now, i got a 64 meg 4200 for 25 bux at work and to my amazement it actually gets better 3dmark scores than the 4400!! and i haven't overclocked it yet! i used...actually i can't get the tube off the desk as it is glued on but it's some noname super glue.

 

[FunkDaMonkMan]

woa woa wao... you used superglue????


that was your problem... superglue doesn't conduct heat very well.

You should have used arctic alumina epoxy.

 

[kaltag]

i used the four dops of glue on the corners with AS3 around the middle

 

[weponhead]

am i hearing you right ? you used super glue on your gf4 4400?? one question ... WHY? no offense but what went through your head at that moment... not thinking about the what if it requires dissasembaly *SP* part there eh? lol sucks that you broke your gpu .. hopefully you learned your lesson to think things out..

 

[Crazy Jayhawk]

I don't see how superglue could rip up a GPU like that.

In the future if you need to remove a heatsink from a video card, put it in the freezer for a while first to make the glue more brittle.

 

[TheFrag]

ya, glue gets weaker at certain temps, so always FREEZE it first!

 

[The Spyder]

yeah~ always freeze it.............. you could have saved a 4400