Just Ordered NV Silencer 5 any suggestions?

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Dark-Colonel

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I just need some basic suggestions I should remember wen installing it.
I remember that I should wear a hair net, working in a clean
enviroment and someplace were you cant get interrupted and so on.
Something important that I just cant remember is that what im I going
to spread the AS5 out with? Once I squeeze some of it, what do I use to
spread it accross the chipset and make it perfectly flat? That I cant
remember.
 
Just another question before it arrives tomorrow. Lets say I install it, but I managed to screw up somehow and the card fries and no longer turns on. I decide to put back the original HSF and RMA PNY saying that I have no idea what happened to it. Would they find out that I was moding it but fried it myself?
 
Dark-Colonel said:
Lets say I install it, but I managed to screw up somehow and the card fries and no longer turns on. I decide to put back the original HSF and RMA PNY saying that I have no idea what happened to it. Would they find out that I was moding it but fried it myself?
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On a completely unrelated and hypothetical note, if I were going to break my expensive toy and be a dishonest asshole by trying to get a business to take responsibility for my incompetence, I certainly wouldn't broadcast how pathetic I am to the whole world by starting a thread in a forum about it.

Oh, but back to the subject, you probably could get away with it. So don't worry about it!
 
Dark-Colonel said:
Something important that I just cant remember is that what im I going
to spread the AS5 out with? Once I squeeze some of it, what do I use to
spread it accross the chipset and make it perfectly flat? That I cant
remember.
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You can stick your finger into a plastic sandwich bag and use the bag as a sort of "latex glove" and spread the goop around that way. That's what I did for both my CPU and my GPU and it worked very well.
 
Zinn said:
On a completely unrelated and hypothetical note, if I were going to break my expensive toy and be a dishonest asshole by trying to get a business to take responsibility for my incompetence, I certainly wouldn't broadcast how pathetic I am to the whole world by starting a thread in a forum about it.

Oh, but back to the subject, you probably could get away with it. So don't worry about it!
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Well im sorry if not everybody gets money as they please. It took me a very long time to earn this card. I am not goign to let it go to waste and than have to work another 2 months to get a card
 
If you don't have the money to replace the card, dont F*** with it.

Back to the topic, I'd recommend using a credit card or something to spread a nice even layer across the core, thats what I do with my CPU's and GPU's. Good luck.
 
I just use a PCI slot cover to spread it.

If you kill the card by modding it yourself you shouldn't RMA it, it's not only unethical it's just plain stupid.
 
If you look on arctic silver's website, they say how to put it on (AS5) on large cpus (basically what your gpu is now-a-days)

Just put a rice size amount in the center of your GPU, then put the stuff it comes with on the memory (you don't want to put AS5 on the memory as it has POTENTIAL of interfering)

When you actually put the silencer heat sink on, it flats out the AS5 and eliminates any air.

Don't worry you wont fry it :)
I never did it before until about a week ago and it's working fine. Record your temperature now on stock. Remove old cooler and put on the silencer. Check your temperatures with it on (like 30 minutes) just on idle. If your temperature is cooler or equal (should be a little cooler) then you should be ok. Test out a game, see how the temperature is then.

Now if at idle you see it going up and up and up and up (you get the point) PAST your old temperature: turn off your computer and just reapply the stuff starting from step one
 
i have had bad luck with those things. if you own a high end card, the couple more mhz you are going to get for your $30 investment are really not worth it. way too much can go wrong from cracked cores to shorts. rma the nv5, video cards are fragile. if you are still convinced that you will be able to do things with the nv5 that you wouldnt without it, dont worry about the as5. it comes pre applied for the core and silicon pre applied for the ram. hope i am not too late. i bought one with my 6800gt and then wondered why am i putting this cheap crap on my $425 card. i gave it away when i sold the gt last week.


very truly yours,
politenessman
 
Zinn said:
On a completely unrelated and hypothetical note, if I were going to break my expensive toy and be a dishonest asshole by trying to get a business to take responsibility for my incompetence, I certainly wouldn't broadcast how pathetic I am to the whole world by starting a thread in a forum about it.

Oh, but back to the subject, you probably could get away with it. So don't worry about it!
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Our late Pope couldn't have said it better himself, your excellency... :rolleyes:
 
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Well it has arrived. I will install it right after Bayern Munchen vs Chelsea chamipns leauge match

On the side of things, if that is your opinion about me than I dont care. Another thing, I only got this thing in the first place because my card cant run in my PC without my case having to be open. My case has such bad airflow that I have to leave the case open or otherwise it will lock up after 4 hours.
 
Can you mod the case a little bit? Perhaps drill a hole or two with a circle saw and stick some nice 80mm Speeze fans that have a great noise/airflow ratio.

Either way, the NVS cooled my GPU down 10 in both idle and load. Good Luck!!
 
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Well it has arrived. I will install it right after Bayern Munchen vs Chelsea chamipns leauge match

On the side of things, if that is your opinion about me than I dont care. Another thing, I only got this thing in the first place because my card cant run in my PC without my case having to be open. My case has such bad airflow that I have to leave the case open or otherwise it will lock up after 4 hours.
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If your system is overheating that much a NV Silencer 5 is not going to change anything.
 
Actually it will, it draws teh heat out of the case for the graphic card. The primary reason that happens was because of the 6800GT. I had a 6800OC before and it was running 24/7 at a idle temp of 50c
 
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