How To Installing a Gpu Cooler

When you have spent half the month's food budget on a graphics card, which will be forgiven for becoming a wreck at the prospect of shaking their dismantling. However, it is worth upgrading your GPU cool, just be careful. First, check if it is mounted on the graphics card is compatible with the mounts in the refrigerator. Most coolers attached to the four pins on the GPU, but these are spaced differently depending on the GPU.

To make matters more confusing, some graphics cards, including Radeon HD 2900 and the original GeForce 8800 GTX cards, and Ultra 320MB and 640MB GTS cards, have more than the standard eight memory chips and and elsewhere that need refrigeration.

If you're buying a fresh Fanless, make sure your case has enough air flow to keep the kitchen of your graphics card. Furthermore, if too high, it may not fit in your case, if it is too deep and may have to remove the sound card. Keep your old refrigerator safe as you can come back if you want to sell your old card.

The small screw Phenomenon

Turn the card so that the front is down, and remove all the screws on the back to keep his place in the refrigerator. You may also need to remove a few screws on the back, if you have a dual slot cooler. Turn the card again so that the front side up, unplug the power cord from the refrigerator. Gently lift the refrigerator of the graphics card, to reveal some Gunk, also known as TIM (thermal interface material), in the chips.

Cleanliness is next to godliness

Your next job is to remove any traces of the TIM and heating pads to the memory and GPU, and possibly also Vrms. This work is best achieved with a lint-free cloth (to prevent stray fibers in the chips) and some TIM clean. Wipe the chips, being careful not to damage the components near the PCB. Make sure all TIM TIM clean and has been removed, and then you're ready to install the heatsink.

That sinking feeling

Palo heatsinks on RAM, chips and others if applicable. Refrigerators to cool the GPU and RAM in the same block, heating pads stick to the RAM. Find out what has mounting holes of his manual refrigerator, or measure the gap. Even the spread of a layer of TIM on the GPU if necessary. Following the manual, the cooler subject to the graphics card in the mountain, taking care not to damage the components. Now you can connect the fan.