My stuff arrived. - Page 2

Adrian Ţepeş · July 25th, 2009

Of course, but she knows it'll be worth it

kow_ciller · July 25th, 2009

You might want to keep yourself busy by replacing the stock thermal paste on that thing. Should keep you satisfied for a day or two

Adrian Ţepeş · July 25th, 2009

I'd rather not accidentally cause a major rift in time & space before I got to even try it out

kow_ciller · July 25th, 2009

Pshh. voiding the warranty before you haven't even used it is where all the fun is at.

Adrian Ţepeş · July 25th, 2009

Yeah well I'd rather stick with it the way it is, I had to work really hard this summer to save up the money for this rig, and I don't want to risk destroying it after all the work I put into it

I'll save the dismantling for my next rig

***Sgt. D. Pilla*** · July 25th, 2009

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Yeah well I'd rather stick with it the way it is, I had to work really hard this summer to save up the money for this rig, and I don't want to risk destroying it after all the work I put into it

I'll save the dismantling for my next rig

Agreed.
I put a tiny bit of AS5 onto my GTX 275 and temps rose by 20*C lol, and I've checked and double checked it's seated properly and all.
I won't be doing that again in a hurry lol.

*Daedalus · July 26th, 2009

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Originally Posted by Sgt. D. Pilla

Agreed.
I put a tiny bit of AS5 onto my GTX 275 and temps rose by 20*C lol, and I've checked and double checked it's seated properly and all.
I won't be doing that again in a hurry lol.

... there goes me putting OCZ Freeze on my 380.

***Sgt. D. Pilla*** · July 26th, 2009

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... there goes me putting OCZ Freeze on my 380.

It's actually rather annoying, it's rendered gaming on my system for longer then 45 minutes useless.
Any longer then that and it gets to hot and the game hard locks the system, or the drivers crash and hard lock the system.
So now I find myself having to go and buy an after market cooler just to make the system somewhat useable again.
Next time I don't take Kow's advice lol.

kow_ciller · July 26th, 2009

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... there goes me putting OCZ Freeze on my 380.

He mounted it wrong. You're NEVER supposed to get higher temps from applying thermal paste, even if you went and threw on some generic white paste your temps would drop.

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Originally Posted by Sgt. D. Pilla

It's actually rather annoying, it's rendered gaming on my system for longer then 45 minutes useless.
Any longer then that and it gets to hot and the game hard locks the system, or the drivers crash and hard lock the system.
So now I find myself having to go and buy an after market cooler just to make the system somewhat useable again.
Next time I don't take Kow's advice lol.

LoL
You mounted it incorrectly which is why you have higher temperatures. Make sure there are no air bubbles in the paste. And seriously, good luck finding an aftermarket heatsink for your video card. The GTX series is HORRIBLE for aftermarket support. You can use a HR-03GTX which doesn't have sufficient cooling on the vregs or.... you can put it on water. And thats about all your options so far.

***>Omen<*** · July 26th, 2009

Yeah I have to agree with Kow here, there's no way you should get higher temps, esp with a reputable brand of paste.