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Matt Woller
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I'm using a Revision 1 (bought it right before Rev 2s were released) VGA Silencer on my old-school BBA Radeon 9700 Pro. I purchased said card from my friend this past January, and for some reason he was the one to install the VGA Silencer, and not myself.
Now a few days ago, I removed the HSF in question from my 9700 Pro to clean it out (my house is particularly dusty and so my computer suffers the consequences). When I put it back on, I put her in my system and all was good... until I came back from work the next day only to discover artifacts spanning the entire screen. At first, I had suspected a bad cable (my monitor uses a removeable cable) because whenever the system was bumped, the screen would mess up. Well, then I tried (for shits and giggles) pressing the HSF to the card with my fingers.... that cleared everything up.
Now I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about hardware, and from what I can tell it seems the heatsink isn't on entirely straight, and the Ceramique is the only thing making full contact with the card. However, I've been playing Battlegrounds quite much the past few days and nothing's overheated. I've read on Arctic-Cooling's Installation Guide that the nylon washers on the VGA Silencer are both to be touching the card, however mine doesn't go on such a way... one washer is touching and the other a good cm or two from the back of the card, and if I tighten that end, she doesn't go anywhere (in safety) and in fact I've even heard a cracking noise when trying to tighten that side (obviously I stopped and reversed, and the card lived). Somebody help me?!
Now a few days ago, I removed the HSF in question from my 9700 Pro to clean it out (my house is particularly dusty and so my computer suffers the consequences). When I put it back on, I put her in my system and all was good... until I came back from work the next day only to discover artifacts spanning the entire screen. At first, I had suspected a bad cable (my monitor uses a removeable cable) because whenever the system was bumped, the screen would mess up. Well, then I tried (for shits and giggles) pressing the HSF to the card with my fingers.... that cleared everything up.
Now I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about hardware, and from what I can tell it seems the heatsink isn't on entirely straight, and the Ceramique is the only thing making full contact with the card. However, I've been playing Battlegrounds quite much the past few days and nothing's overheated. I've read on Arctic-Cooling's Installation Guide that the nylon washers on the VGA Silencer are both to be touching the card, however mine doesn't go on such a way... one washer is touching and the other a good cm or two from the back of the card, and if I tighten that end, she doesn't go anywhere (in safety) and in fact I've even heard a cracking noise when trying to tighten that side (obviously I stopped and reversed, and the card lived). Somebody help me?!