heatsink adhesive?
  • Jim
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    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
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    I've got my first two Radeon 9800XT 256MB video cards flashed and ready to ship (finally), but I've got a problem.
    One card has a third party GPU cooler and memory heatsinks (this card is going to a friend of Cool_amigaN/Stefano's).
    The heatsinks were attached with a self adhesive tape that isn't holding very well (they want to fall off).

    Are any of you familiar with what kind of adhesives I could use to firmly reattach them?

    BTW - On 9800XT and 9800Pro 256mb cards, I'd highly recommend you try a 128k (full) rom first. This has worked best on all four cards I've tried.
    I used a modified 9800Pro 256mb rom (128k) on all cards and modified the GPU and memory clock speeds on the XT cards with Graphiccelerator.

    Hey Bigfoot and Pega-1 - When is the R300 3D driver going to be ready?
    I'm slowly getting a handle on all the differences these cards (and the R400 based cards) present.

    Edit - Being impatient, I just went ahead and over-paid for some Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive from Newegg.com.

    [ Edited by Jim 22.01.2013 - 22:35 ]
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    Some cyanoacrylate based adhesive like Loctite could be handy for that task. You could put one drop of thermal-conductive silicone in the middle/center and a drop of cyanoacrylate on each corner. I used to do something like that to add radiators to 040/060 cpus :-)
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  • Jim
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    That is pretty clever.
    I'll have to keep it in mind.
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »23.01.13 - 14:37
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