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Ruiner · 08-27-2003, 10:14 AM

Stock crappy gpu hsf's always come with TIMs, and I'm wondering if those may be best. Thermal paste is designed to work under a certain level of compression, and those little white spring clips likely do not apply enough pressure to do the job.

The better solution, employed ideally in the swiftech geforce4 gpu block, is the use of bolts with springs, just like we use for (AMD) cpu's. Granted this probably isn't very important for large core dies like the Gef4, but may be for the ATI 9x00, and will become more important in the future (with further die shrinks).

I figure the first thing anyone here does when they buy a new card is pull the HSF, scrape off the TIM, and apply some good thermal grease. I've always done it anyway.

Has anyone done temp measurements to prove that this is in fact beneficial?

08-27-2003, 10:14 AM	#1
Ruiner Cooling Savant Join Date: May 2003 Location: New Smyrna, FL Posts: 258	Regarding GPU HSF's and TIM's vs. paste Stock crappy gpu hsf's always come with TIMs, and I'm wondering if those may be best. Thermal paste is designed to work under a certain level of compression, and those little white spring clips likely do not apply enough pressure to do the job. The better solution, employed ideally in the swiftech geforce4 gpu block, is the use of bolts with springs, just like we use for (AMD) cpu's. Granted this probably isn't very important for large core dies like the Gef4, but may be for the ATI 9x00, and will become more important in the future (with further die shrinks). I figure the first thing anyone here does when they buy a new card is pull the HSF, scrape off the TIM, and apply some good thermal grease. I've always done it anyway. Has anyone done temp measurements to prove that this is in fact beneficial?