EVGA 8800GTX flirting

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Im waiting for my new bios to come from asus and im getting impatient... I overnighted it, 8 hours ago, and I have about 13 hours untill i recieve it.

I want to flirt with my sexy 8800gtx, and im wondering if it would be worth it to pull the HSF off of it and replace the thermal paste with AS5/ Arctic silver adheasive.

I assume this would help temperatures significantly.

Any thoughts?

Michael
 
I would suggest buying one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835109136



the ones they put on the GTS and GTX do the job quite well considering they only have one heat pipe, but that thing is impressive, my friends putting one on his GTX atm.

just a though, if your gonna go as far as taking the HSF off why not put one of those bad boys on it , paired witha 92mm fan :D
 
Thats a great suggestion, but I truely think Id have a conflict with that in my case. If I understand that concept correct, the HS wraps up to the top side of the card... if so, there woudlnt be enough clearance between the Thermalright Ultra120 Extreme(Bigassmofo).

I wasnt really looking at spending more money, I was looking at enhancing. Would it be worthwhile thing for me to AS5 everything? Better yet, the non conductive arctic silver cermeque(sp) that i have around here somewhere.

If it aint broke dont fix it, but I want to do fixin ;-) is it an easy thing to do, and is it worthwhile?
 
maybe replace the stock paste but I just mounted a 120mm on my HD bay to blow across the gtx and it idles at 65C and load is 70-71C which is ok considering the clocks are 625/2000.
 
Cloud15x said:
Thats a great suggestion, but I truely think Id have a conflict with that in my case. If I understand that concept correct, the HS wraps up to the top side of the card... if so, there woudlnt be enough clearance between the Thermalright Ultra120 Extreme(Bigassmofo).

I wasnt really looking at spending more money, I was looking at enhancing. Would it be worthwhile thing for me to AS5 everything? Better yet, the non conductive arctic silver cermeque(sp) that i have around here somewhere.

If it aint broke dont fix it, but I want to do fixin ;-) is it an easy thing to do, and is it worthwhile?
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Absolutely not. You'll lose your warrenty and end up with identical temps.
 
From his sig it looks like he has an eVGA card so talking the HSF off wont void his warranty. I may be wrong so feel free to correct.
 
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