vga silencer, easy to install?

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I'm worried about my temps of my case since the case only has one exhaust fan, granted it's a 120mm, and no intake. I'd like to make sure my video card is cool, and the stock fan on the 9800pro isn't something I'm too crazy about. I'm ordering a vga silencer for a friend in canada (saves him some cash in shipping) and he said he would buy me one if I wanted. I'm sure it would help my temps a lot, and probably be a great improvement. I looked around for a decent 'install' guide but didn't find anything useful.

My question is in regards to the installation though. I've never installed or removed a graphics card fan, or even for that matter, the heatsink/fan on a processor. I've always bought bundled proc's and never swapped out a fan. I know the stock one isn't too difficult to take off, but then it requires removing the thermal paste right? I don't really know what to use to get that stuff off, nor how to put new stuff back on. I don't have any but I believe the silencer comes with some. Lastly, I read about some people saying the possible removal of a shim was necessary...which I didn't really follow at all.

I'm using a built by ati 9800pro 128mb.
 
My TT Giant came with simple instructions to follow. I used it on my 9500np. Luckily, the shim was lower than the GPU. Make sure you check it before you waste your time removing it. My card didn't use thermal grease, but a thermal pad. It took me like 20 minutes to do the whole thing.
 
im pretty sure it comes with directions...
and the installation is really straightfoward...
 
I was hesitant to do this but I didn't trust the stock fan so I got the Silencer. It was actually very easy to set up. The part where you actually bolt the unit on to the card is kinda scary, the clip allows for some incredible tension. It goes on VERY tight. At one point I heard some kind of snap and I expected the card to just bust apart but there were no issues and it works very well.
 
can u explain, though, how to exactly do it? Cuz im lookng to grab one for my built by ati 9800 pro too
 
Went ahead and ordered it today. Hopefully it does have some thermal paste shipped with it, as I totally spaced on my order and didn't get any. I'd rather not pay $5 more shipping for some and don't want to deal with the hassle of trying to add it to my order. I haven't taken the stock fan off yet, so I'm hoping I have no problems with removing the thermal paste that's on there already.
 
it was EXTREMELY easy to install. I have on on my 9800 Pro.

on my card the shim around the GPU was getting in the way so i pryed it off with a razor blade.
 
I posted this in another thread this morning:

"Just installed an Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer yesterday on my Sapphire 9800Pro 256MB card. Turn your card over to the other side where there is no fan and look for the push pins. With needle nose pliers squeeze the longest sides together for each pin and slide the HS/fan thing off your card, but you might want to unplug the 3-pin fan connector first (take note of the which wires are in which position before you unplug it). The Silencer will have more specific instructions on how to install, but DON'T put Arctic Silver paste on until you are ready; their instructions say to do it earlier which is rather odd. Next (some details left out), remove back plate off video card, clean off old paste with tissues and then alcohol to get the rest, place guard where video card face plate was, line up Silencer on video card and know where screw holes are, Arctic Silver 3 on GPU, then Silencer, carefully turn over and screw back plate down, screw new face plate in place, plug in fan connector per previous setup (black wire where black was on old connector, red wire........, etc.; there may only be two wires instead of 3 this time). One strange thing I did notice and I was warned about it ahead of time, is that I now have a 1/2" gap between my faceplate and the edge of the exhaust. Is there any way to seal this gap up easily?"

The shim on my card seemed almost at the same level if not ever so slightly lower than the GPU, so I left it on. I hope this wasn't a bad idea.:eek:
 
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