9800 Pro Shim remove help.

[bigstusexy]

I'm searching around for this and decided to out right ask. I have an artic silencer rev 3 and my temps were only fine on the first day, now the thing get too hot, I'm going to try and restore the fan today and I thought about removing my shim.

When I took off the unit today I wasn't happy about the contact I saw. It looked like chunky ice cream, not a flat surface thats disturbed by the silk screening.

I forgot to add that I took a Add in blank and put it across the deck and held it up to the light, I could see there is a tiny gap that is created by the shim, I know this was a big issue I just never paid attention to the instructions back then.

So the question is, how to I remove the shim the safest way? i don't wont to ruin my card obviously .

 

[5aboy]

i remember reading about this a few years ago, when the arctic coolers were just out. i think you have a few options:

1) try to remove the IHS (not very easy, now difficult to find the instructions, but if you look in some forums then it will be there somewhere, or google).
2) sand down the shim so that you get better contact
3) sand down the cooler so you get better contact.


if it was me, and i had the patience (dont know if this is easy to do with a dremel and one of the bits), but id do no 3 - just because i wont be voiding any warranty, and am less likely to damage the card, and if i screw it up, ill just buy another arctic cooler.

 

[bigstusexy]

Yeah I'd agree but I don't have the tools to do that, Grinding the IHS wouldn't be too bad too, do you know what IHS stands for? I'll include it into my searches, I've sound someone saying that dental floss would help if you can start it at the corners, it could be rubbish but I've purchased some on my break for less than 2 bucks... if it doesn't work maybe I'll get into flossing my teeth

 

[5aboy]

yes but you are going to lose performance if you just lap the IHS - the distance between the core and the cooler will increase.

good luck with the dental floss.

 

[bigstusexy]

The dental floss method didn't work for me maybe it was the floss, I couldn't get it to cut the holding substance. Maybe it was the kind I bought,

I didn't find step by step instructions, but what I did was take a long run of floss and wrap it around my fingers, and started at a corner and worked the floss as flat as I could under the shim, I could get it all in there but once I started a sawing action to cut it, nothing really happened.


I'm really too chicken to use an exacto knife to cut the adhesive or pry the shim. I'll still take comments and answers but I've since reapplied the HSF with the shim still on, I get around 68C at idle could be a few degrees lower, I don't have a baseline to tell you how I was before because I'm at work where its cool, however at home, where its hot, it was idle at 90+ C and I had to put a box fan in front of the case to keep it from boiling, when I woke up the system wasn't posting so I couldn't tell you. The No post as an old issue with the P4C800-E, if you ever encounter it, try taking out the ram to make the MB give you that beep code, reinsert and you'll be fine.