easy way to get the stock heatsink off of gf2 mx card

[tcul72]

i did this with the hercules mx, other brands may be the same. there are 4 holes directly behind the heatsink. i took two screws slightly thicker than the holes and put them in caddy corner. i took turns tightening between the screws and in seconds the hs just fell off.

[Psylocke]

Why would you do that?

[Barney]

Maybe to put a bigger heatsink on it?

tcul72,soundslike a good way to get it off.It takes a lot of courage to take a heatsink off a videocard (especially the first time).I haven't taken off the hs of my ATi Rage Fury 128GL yet,but I will.There's always the risk it goes wrong,and you have to buy a new card.btw,how did you get the new heatsink on?

Ronald

[Barney]

Thanks for the info,looks like I have to get that Artic Silver stuff,too.But I live in the Netherlands.Hope that isn't going to be a problem.I think I'll put a small Pentium heatsink on it.I already have an extra high 5cm 6500rpm fan.I am using it right now on it,but it has a very small heatsink on it.Not that it will get much faster with overclocking than it is now,but I would like to get everything out of it.I think I'll put heatsinks on the memory as well (32mb).

Ronald

[shocksyde]

yeah be VERY careful when taking off that heatsink, i busted my voodoo3 2000 doing that. ripped some capacitors and resistors off http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif. i just bought a new geforce mx and i already took the heatsink off that http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif.

question: do you have to use a special thermal epoxy to fix the heatsink to the video card? or is any old epoxy ok?

shock

[tcul72]

there is heat conductive epoxy made for attaching heatsinks. regular epoxy probably wouldn't be a good idea as it could very well trap the heat.

[tcul72]

i got the fan/hs combo from 2cooltech. to mount it, it came with adhesive thermal tape, but i sanded that off, and put arctic silver paste on the chip(all except the four corners) i used epoxy on the four corners and pushed the hs on. works like a charm http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

i'm also gonna mount a hs/fan combo on the memory chips of my card.