DAZ! Help!

[congo]

You say your TI4200 has a heatsink on the bottom......

I need one there as thats where the card gets extremely hot even at stock settings.

In the center of the back of the card, under the Video chip, is about 1 square centimetre (10mm x 10mm) of flat area surrounded by small components that protrude about 1 or 2 mm, so the area to attach the heatsink there is limited and cramped.

Also, I'm worried about shorting the componenets there with compound so are the heat transfer compounds generally non conductive (to electricity) ?

Is there a way to do this?

I'm disappointed by the general design of video cards because the way they sit in the tower, the heat must rise into the PCB from the Video chip and dissipate down into the heatsink, kinda like pushing sh@# uphill, so to speak!

[Daz]

my card came with a heatsink already on it.... its the xfx ti4200 and it gets hot...il look it up for ya with pictures


i had a 64mb ti4200 before that one again XFX but this did not have heatsink.. if yours is a 128mb card you may need one

what i may suggest is buying a PCI slot extraction fan.. this goes directly beneath the graphics card and sucks the hot air out and out the back of the case.. there very cheap aswell only 2 or 3 quid

[congo]

It's a ESPCO Eagle GF4 TI4200 128mb 8x AGP, It's the second eagle card I've had, no prob with them so far.

I was after the XFX card but I had trouble getting the supplier organised, so I went with this one because it was from my regular dealer.

It has a pretty big heatsink with an imbedded fan driving air thru the fins in an enclosure, (normal stuff).

I didn't think the fan was pulling enough air thru the heatsink, so I pulled the cover off the heatsink and fan assembly, exposing the cooling fins.

I mounted a case fan right next to it, to assure a constant flow of cool air over the fins, (air

[Daz]

hmm try getting a normal chassis fan to blow directly down onto the top of the card which is the underneath side without the heatsink<< is this the side your having trouble with???

i shouldnt think it should get that hot i would sugegst a strong fan mounted directly above it to cool it down...these again are very low priced fans as i have 5 of them

[congo]

I built a duct from duct tape and a plastic ice cream container. Now I duct the nearby fan right over the heatsink and it seems cooler

[Daz]

glad u got it cooler.. nothing more fustrating than an unstable card at high temperatures

[Ivan]

That's BAD case design

Mine has cooling fans on the back at the position of the connectors