New heat grease, no help

[Karl F. Larsen]

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     I have to keep my Ubuntu set for Zero Appearance effects. If I set 
>> it to normal my system works pretty good until I use Google. It has so 
>> many color effects it heats up the video chip and my screen displays a 
>> funny cross-hatch pattern and it kills the keyboard and mouse.
>>
>>     Today I bought a tube of high temp grease and I took off the heat 
>> sink and cleaned it all up with alcohol and then put a liberal amount on 
>> the top of the chip and put the heat sink back on.  Alas it does not 
>> improve performance one bit :-)
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
> Going against the trend on this one, I'm gonna try to provide helpful 
> advice :-)...
>
> Karl, from what you wrote it sounds like you renewed the grease on your 
> video card heat sink, right? Maybe do your cpu one as well (tho check 
> the sort of grease is suitable for both), and blow the dust off the 
> heatsink before reinstalling. A word on what to do after you are all 
> "re-greased" as it were - some types of thermal paste need several heat 
> up/cool down cycles before they work at their rated heat conducting 
> level, so if you normally leave your machine on overnight - turn it off 
> in the evening for a week or so to let it cool down overnight.
>
> I use Arctic Silver thermal paste on my machines, after the procedure 
> described above I can switch my (single) case fan to silent mode, run 
> the video card (Radeon 9600 pro) with a Zalman fanless heatsink and have 
> no heat problems (it is summer where I live in New Zealand). The cpu is 
> an AMD64X2 3800+.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
>   
    Hi Mark the grease I used was made by DYNEX and was hard to find. 
Not sold in the typical computer section of a store.

    I did also buy a PCI-Ex board that has a 7200 nVidia chip and it has 
a GIANT heat sink! The entire card is covered by it. I installed it and 
hooked the monitor to the old VGA output (it has 2 other output plugs).

    It came up working and I switched to high visual effects and it has 
been running for 8 hours now and is working fine.

Karl


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