VGA Silencer and 9700 Pro + ATI shim?

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Heywood

For those who have fitted the Silencer to an ATI Card:

Do you have to take off the infamous ATI shim....or does the Silencer
allow for it....or do you just fill up the space with Heatsink thermal
compound?
TIA
 
Heywood said:
For those who have fitted the Silencer to an ATI Card:

Do you have to take off the infamous ATI shim....or does the Silencer
allow for it....or do you just fill up the space with Heatsink thermal
compound?
TIA
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NEVER use a thick layer of thermal compound! That insteads of helping
the heatsink blocks the heatsink from performing, so get the shim off
:-)
 
NEVER use a thick layer of thermal compound! That insteads of helping
the heatsink blocks the heatsink from performing, so get the shim off
:-)
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Thank you....I always wonderend why the shim in the 1st place since
ATI uses a pretty thick thermal pad to make up the space thus making
the heatsink less effective anyway. I appreciate your advice and now
wonder if I want to go through the risk of getting the #$$@@ shim off
to replace the oem sink!
Thanks again
Jeff
 
Thank you....I always wonderend why the shim in the 1st place since
ATI uses a pretty thick thermal pad to make up the space thus making
the heatsink less effective anyway. I appreciate your advice and now
wonder if I want to go through the risk of getting the #$$@@ shim off
to replace the oem sink!
Thanks again
Jeff
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Just be extremely careful taking the shim off. I took my shim off
carefully, but not careful enough. I killed my 9700 Pro due to a slip and a
small, but fatal, cut into the gpu itself. SIGH
 
Yup, I killed my 9700 Pro too! I followed the instructions, probably my
first mistake. "Step 9: Both screws should be fastened alternately up to the
rubber washer. The steel clip will bend correspondingly." I tightened the
screws down, waiting for the clip to "bend". I was rewarded with a loud pop
when the clip snapped right down the middle. Those clips DO NOT BEND AT ALL!
The shock or compression from the clip damaged my GPU. It may have been ok,
if I hadn't removed the shim. I pulled off the shim because of the GIANT
space between the GPU and cooler. In retrospect, I should have left it on
and suffered with suboptimal cooling. The reason ATI uses the shim is to
protect the fragile GPU from damage when they slap their own heatsink on it.

Moral of the story? Keep the shim, and do NOT follow the installation
instructions to the letter like I did!
 
Moral of the story? Keep the shim, and do NOT follow the installation
instructions to the letter like I did!
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Brian, I am sorry, but you are giving duff advice here. The clip works
fine, I assure you. Take a look inside the blue plastic thing and look at
the metal clip. Which way around is it? When its the right way up, you
will see how its supposed to work, and it bends perfectly as designed and as
described. I think you had it the wrong way up.

Chip.
 
Dark Avenger said:
Heywood <> wrote in message

NEVER use a thick layer of thermal compound! That insteads of helping
the heatsink blocks the heatsink from performing, so get the shim off
:-)
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Utter nonsense.

Heywood, leave the shim on. Put a large glob of gloop on and enjoy perhaps
410MHz core. Dark Avenger, OK in *theory* a thin layer of compound is
always better, but in practice, it makes bugger-all differece.

No way near enough difference to risk taking the shim off. To say to remove
it is bad advice.

Chip.
 
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