- Dec 6, 2004
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I bought a used PNY ti4600. It had the pins that hold the heatsink broken and no thermal grease, so i got it at a nice price (about $50 in Venezuela is cheap for that).
I used a pair of screws to put the heatsink to its place and some cheap thermal grease, but the core can't go over 295 MHz (300 stock) without showing obvious signals of excesive heat. I have heard that this GPU can be pushed af far as 340 MHz, so i think that something must be wrong with it. If the bad thermal grease was the problem i should have less headrom before failure (or so i think), instead, this card can't even get to stock frecuency.
Soon i will have some artic silver 5 to try (hard to find here), but if that doesn't work i will begin to feel REALLY worried about my video card.
What may have damagaed the card?
Can excesive overclocking be the origin of this problem?
How overheating may damage the card so it can't go to stock speed againd?
The temperature here is 30 ºC tops. Can ambient temperature be a factor in this matter?
I hope some of you guys can help me.
PD: Sorry for any mistakes in the writing, i am a self taugth english speaker
I used a pair of screws to put the heatsink to its place and some cheap thermal grease, but the core can't go over 295 MHz (300 stock) without showing obvious signals of excesive heat. I have heard that this GPU can be pushed af far as 340 MHz, so i think that something must be wrong with it. If the bad thermal grease was the problem i should have less headrom before failure (or so i think), instead, this card can't even get to stock frecuency.
Soon i will have some artic silver 5 to try (hard to find here), but if that doesn't work i will begin to feel REALLY worried about my video card.
What may have damagaed the card?
Can excesive overclocking be the origin of this problem?
How overheating may damage the card so it can't go to stock speed againd?
The temperature here is 30 ºC tops. Can ambient temperature be a factor in this matter?
I hope some of you guys can help me.
PD: Sorry for any mistakes in the writing, i am a self taugth english speaker