Tom's Guide | Tom's Hardware | Tom's Games
 |
 |
 |
ok im doing somekind of overclocking on my graphics card but my graphics card didnt have a fan only a heatsink until now, i superglued a pentium I fan on it is that a horrible thing 2 do? is the superglue going to mess up my heatsink will the superglue melt off? ok well in conclusion should i leave the fan on or take it off thanks for your help.
0 
I was actually marvelling @ your ingenuity ;~). I just think the super glue will dryout in no time and the fan will come loose.
BTW upgrade your RAM, it is the cheapest way to boost your PC's performance without spending a ton of cash.
--- Non Sibi Sed Aliis ---
0
oh man.. superglue.. have you heard of chipset fans that can be baught for really cheap.. if your that desperate then just buy a new video card..
0
I use superglue exactly the same way on the NB. It is still staying there over a year.
I don't see anything wrong with it.
0
There you go j1mm3h, but bear in mind it may work for you too but do not be disappointed if it doesn't last that long.
--- Non Sibi Sed Aliis ---
0
Yes ive been flirting with the idea of upgrading my ram for the past year the reason i dont get it im cheap plus i have RDRAM thats super expensive so u know...."crazy" ur the one whos calling me a dumbass and no i havent herd of "chipset fans" and ur missing the main idea here "cooling off without wasting a penny"....thanks real_cool for informing me btw whats NB...and sabertooth if it doesnt last so long ill just re-glue that bad boy and so on..thanks for all the help everbody but still i want 2 know whats NB im curious
0
Yes, you can use superglue on your fan/heatsink, but I would prefer applying Thermal Compound. Since you are into overclocking, apply your GPU core with Arctic Silver if you can.
Instructions, go here...
http://computing.net/gaming/wwwboard/forum/965.html
0
i bet artic silver would work better but im still in the "cool off without wasting a penny" but i c its not really expensive but i think ill just stay how im right now thanks anyways.
0
Why not get a couple of chopsticks and an elastic band in there too?
I don't suffer from insanity, I embrace it.
0
if i were you id sell ur system and make urself lots of cash then buy a big box to put your attitude in :)
0
Rob ur 100% correct thanks....well anyways i have another question the graphics card that im overclocking is tnt2 m64 i herd that it wasnt worth overclocking this card cuz of its 64 bit memory but still i wanna squeeze everything out of it so my question is the default numbers are 125/143 and right now its 150/173 and i got it to 155/173 but like a couple of seconds into the game the screen got grainy then it turned yellow then i got no signal to my monitor but that was before i glued this fan to it so my question is now that i put this fan should i try 155/173 i dont want it frying or whatever also how far should i push the memory cuz i herd the memory can go higher than the core also i use riva tuner and when i put the memory to 181 it puts this little yellow exclamation mark should i just set it at 180? and to add the memory doesnt have no special cooling things only the core ok well thanks for ur help.
also sorry for u thinking i was rude i was just playing around i didnt think u would take it serious.
0
I put a cooler on my south bridge with a layer of thermal paste and a small drop of superglue on one of the chip corners to hold the cooler. It works great.
0
Well... if your memory has no heatsinks or anything then you wont be able to up your memory clock much before it crashes the card. Otherwise there is no reason why you cannot overclock the core to the extreme so long as the cooling is adequate. Im assuming that you are not changing the heatsink... just attatching the fan to the existing one? Another option that I am doing as my GFX card fan died recently and nobody can supply me a heatsink/fan combo that fits properly is to manufacture a bracket that can support a good high volume fan (which will cost all of about $30(australian) )and mount it in the PCI slot next to your AGP card.. set the fan up to blow onto the card and it will provide cooling for the chipset and a little for the ram (not that much without heatsinks however) you could probably pick up some heatsinks to stick to your memory for cheap, but im not sure how expensive it is to get the correct thermal adhesive to go with it...
Whichever way you go I applaud your ingenuity and good lcuk pushing out the extra MHz
0
Congratulations TXH.....crazy z thanks for ur reply...ok well in conclusion i put the memory to 180mhz then right away my computer started freezing so i put it back to 173 this was yesterday by the way and today i finally desiced to push the core to 155 and the memory to 175 then i just started surfing the internet and then after awhile my computer started freezing so i put the memory back to 173 but left the core to 155 then descided to play a little game everything was ok so i would think that those speeds are stable. If I had cooling on the memory i know i could of pushed that to the max and for the core i want to try 160 but i dont want to mess up my card and i herd not to raise the core no more than 20 percent above its original spec. and i think 155 its about there if i did my math right. so i went from 125/143 to 155/173, ive seen a small increase in rise of nations about 2,3 fps maybe more and a small increase in the pcpitstop.com video test im planning in getting 3dmark to test better. Im positive i can see a bigger performance increase if i had more memory(system memory) and everyday i move closer to getting it. Thanks everybody for the help any comments or suggestions are still welcomed.
0
you did right by using superglue. Goop glue is also good.
thermal compound doesn't enter into this since we're only talking about the mating of a fan to a sink, not a sink to a chip.
0  |
 |
 |
This post is quite old and has been locked from receiving new replies. Please create a new posting instead.
| Ads by Google |
