well i figured today that i had owned the above card for about a year, when i got the card the 1st thing i did was remove the heatsink and replace with arctic silver on all 8 ram chips and the 4600 core.
took it apart today and noticed a few of the ram sinks had seperated into oil/silver. this is because i had to use it quite thick as the asus copper heatsink covers everything, both sides of the card so it is not by a long shot lapped and flat like a cpu sink is.
anyway, i replaced the 4600 core and the top 4 ram chips with artic silver ceramique, from a tester they sent me a while back..
sods law i ran out b4 i got to the bottom heatsink, so i used some AC3 i had. little did i realise i blob of ac3 had got between a couple of contacts during removal.
1st sign was the monitor shutting off for no reason. then on reboot i ran 3d mark and the pic was jumping all over the place...
OMG nooooooo i thought i had killed it. so apart she comes again, and with squinting eyes i found the blob of AC3.
it lives again thank f00k....
took it apart today and noticed a few of the ram sinks had seperated into oil/silver. this is because i had to use it quite thick as the asus copper heatsink covers everything, both sides of the card so it is not by a long shot lapped and flat like a cpu sink is.
anyway, i replaced the 4600 core and the top 4 ram chips with artic silver ceramique, from a tester they sent me a while back..
sods law i ran out b4 i got to the bottom heatsink, so i used some AC3 i had. little did i realise i blob of ac3 had got between a couple of contacts during removal.
1st sign was the monitor shutting off for no reason. then on reboot i ran 3d mark and the pic was jumping all over the place...
OMG nooooooo i thought i had killed it. so apart she comes again, and with squinting eyes i found the blob of AC3.
it lives again thank f00k....