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Article #1093Re: Best way to attach a heatsink & fan to a Stealth II video card?
From: Karl Gibbs
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
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I just got the Stealth II. Where would I find info on overclocking? The loc-tite and thermal grease sounds like a good heat sink attachment method. Would it work a little better if the loc-tite was placed on the outer perimeter of the package and the thermal grease in the middle directly over the physical die? regards, karl William Gilliland wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 05:34:58 GMT, > terri24-nospam-@worldnet.att.net (Joe) wrote: > > >I recently attempted overclocking my Diamond Stealth II to 50 MHz, but > >I noticed that it gets dangerously hot. I have an old 486 heatsink & > >fan that I'd like to try attaching to the V2100 chip on the Stealth. > >What's the best way to do this? I've seen people use everything from > >Super Glue gel to fish line to rubber bands. What's a *sane* > >alternative to this? > > I'd find a high heat rated loc-tite and some thermal grease. > Swirl the thermal grease on in a donut fashion on the heat sink > bottom. In the center of the donut, apply loc-tite. Apply to > the chip. > > Don't install the card for an hour, letting it set. > > Things to watch out for: > > Check that heat rating on your loc-tite. > > Make sure your clearance for your heat sink will be sufficient > once its on the chip and the card installed. > > Will
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,e93b45b9a5912140 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,e93b45b9a5912140 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,e93b45b9a5912140 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,e93b45b9a5912140 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public From: Karl Gibbs <kwgibbs@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: Best way to attach a heatsink & fan to a Stealth II video card? Date: 1998/02/25 Message-ID: <34F42477.BA0452DB@ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 328503281 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6d0aic$ko1@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <34f70d59.144235786@news.flash.net> To: webmaster@logoworld.com, Joe <terri24-@worldnet.att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Netcom X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Feb 25 6:05:44 AM PST 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,demon.tech.pc