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post #21 of 39
2/5/07 at 8:01pm
nice tutorial!
where did you get the scrolling thing in your sig? ive been looking everywhere...
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post #22 of 39
2/5/07 at 8:33pm
Thread Starter 
Thanks

I made 'em I found a tutorial on how to make the static one (somewhere.. erm.. I forget where - I'll see if I can find it ) and then glued a load together in an animated GIF creator..

Which.. I appear to have lost :-/

Not much help, am I!
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post #23 of 39
2/8/07 at 7:21pm
Nice Guide, but tahts even to much thermal paste for me.., but hell I'm picky with that shit
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post #24 of 39
2/11/07 at 11:59pm
Hey guys, how often do you reapply AS5?
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post #25 of 39
2/12/07 at 10:40pm
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Originally Posted by tate
Hey guys, how often do you reapply AS5?
ummm once...

Unless a heat issue arises
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post #26 of 39
2/23/07 at 10:10am
Hello. Good article. Could you tell me how you separated the gpu heatsink from the gpu pcb. Mine seems to be well stuck together. Is there a physical attachment or is it simply glued?
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post #27 of 39
2/23/07 at 3:50pm
Thread Starter 
It's been quite a while now, but I don't remember them being stuck on with anything - just the four screws I mention in the article, and the gentle adhesion of the thermal paste (although the original stuff on mine set hard it came off easily enough.)

Of course it's entirely possible that AW manufacture differently to Evesham, and have started using much stronger thermal goop (I wouldn't expect them to use thermal epoxy given the need to remove the heatsink to get at certain components)
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post #28 of 39
2/23/07 at 5:09pm
when i applied as5 on mine, i can remember the heat sink quite firmly affixed to gpu's after removing the screws also. i used a flat head screwdriver as a lever to pry it loose from one end (very carefully, holding my breath ) and then it came off easily after that.
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post #29 of 39
2/24/07 at 7:18am
Thanks for your replys. I'll get the hammer and chisel out tonight!!!!
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post #30 of 39
3/2/07 at 6:05pm
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Originally Posted by InsaneBinky
nice tutorial! where did you get the scrolling thing in your sig? ive been looking everywhere...
http://userbarmaker.com/
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post #31 of 39
3/3/07 at 11:10pm
I had the same problem as my CPU was firmly stuck to the heatsink and I had to pry it loose to apply some AS5. However after applying AS5 I've been seeing temps maxing about after hours of gaming near 74 max for my cpu and nothing greater than 70 for my gpu's with SLI enabled. I've had a lot better time gaming for the past 2 months since doing so.

The m9700 is wicked sweet. Enough said.
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post #32 of 39
3/13/07 at 6:34pm
I ran 3DMark05 three runs in a row to monitor temps. I found that it never went over 72c with the original alienware thermal paste. I just wanted to toss that in for anyone wondering what the differnce was. I own a m9700 with dual 512bg 7900gs'.
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post #33 of 39
12/31/07 at 1:35pm
Used Alienwares take apart tutorial and your Artic Silver application tutorial to redo my M5750 - worked out great I think its running cooler now. Thanks
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post #34 of 39
3/7/10 at 3:15pm
One of those little round posts that the screws go into busted off as I was unscrewing one of the screws over the heatsink cover on the GPU chip.

How can I reattach it? Are they soldered on?
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post #35 of 39
3/8/10 at 6:35pm
Can you share some pics of the area? Improvisation would be using a nut and bolt to hold that corner down.

cheers ...
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post #36 of 39
3/8/10 at 7:13pm
I used super glue and glued the standoff to the motherboard. Seems to have done the job. Looked like it was just glued on to begin with.
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post #37 of 39
3/8/10 at 7:21pm
Wow. No pic? I hope it holds up. Nice going though

cheers ...
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post #38 of 39
3/8/10 at 7:23pm
I don't have anyway to take pics. My son lost the memory card for our digital camera.
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post #39 of 39
3/8/10 at 8:49pm
There goes his allowance for 2 weeks
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