- Apr 16, 2003
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I recently applied Arctic Silver 5 to the GPU of my 9800 Pro, after removing the original goop. I was careful to not get any AS5 on any areas outside of the raised area of the heatsink that contacts the core and the GPU core itself. I made sure the layer was as thin as possible with my trusty pocketknife, being careful not to scratch the core.
Since then, my system has had consistent video crashes, even when I've used WinClk to underclock my card, owing to the comments I've seen regarding the 'burn in' time AS5 seems to require.
What's going on here?
-SB
P.S. The crashes usually involve video corruption/screen going blank, followed by a reboot. My current hypothesis is that there's a heat transfer problem, but I can't figure out why. I re-mounted the cooler properly...
P.P.S. I've read on the boards here that some people don't use AS5 due to its supposed electrical conductivity. Should I just get some Ceramique for GPUs? Would I be able to avoid this problem? I've never had problems with applying AS to CPU cores.
Since then, my system has had consistent video crashes, even when I've used WinClk to underclock my card, owing to the comments I've seen regarding the 'burn in' time AS5 seems to require.
What's going on here?
-SB
P.S. The crashes usually involve video corruption/screen going blank, followed by a reboot. My current hypothesis is that there's a heat transfer problem, but I can't figure out why. I re-mounted the cooler properly...
P.P.S. I've read on the boards here that some people don't use AS5 due to its supposed electrical conductivity. Should I just get some Ceramique for GPUs? Would I be able to avoid this problem? I've never had problems with applying AS to CPU cores.