Freaking gtx 660 started heating up a lot lately, going over 80C, and in newer games ever nearing 90 C.
So I go ahead and open it up to put some fresh thermal paste and clean up the heatsink fins, etc. I've done this for every other gpu i've had bajillion times.
Well, this one had thermal paste spilled outside the gpu die onto the area with those tiny little transistors, or whatever they're called. they look like super tiny cpu pins. factory applied paste was badly done I guess.
So i do my best to clean that shit up with some alcohol, i reapply fresh thermal paste, assemble the GPU, and surprise, dead.
I'm now on haswell's built in HD4600
Probably won't be able to afford a new gpu until i sell my ass for gtx960 monies at least, which is around 250 bucks here. 1-2 months of intel gpu ahead...
fuck life and fuck not having enough monies for basic first world neccessities
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He who lives by the gamepad, has... PC components... die by the gamepad.
You might be onto something. After 15 or so m+kb games completed in a row, I started playing AC unity with a gamepad, and this happened.
Yeah, its not the end of the world, i'll be playing thief 2, deus and system shock 2, all three which I prophetically downloaded off steam just last night, like I knew shit would hit the fan
Tbh, i would have left the paste that had spilled over. It probably sat there already for a long time and it didn't have to be cleaned to apply some new paste on the chip itself. The lesser you do is mostly better on those things.
Since its broken now anyway you could try to put it in the oven for a bit.
A friend of mine fixed his GPU with this technique.
@Lathieza: Works only with other problems, not in that case
@Drowning_witch: dont give up that fast, maybe just wrong or to much pressure on the chip from the cooling block. remove everything and be careful when reassembling the cooler, do not use to much force when tighten the screws. worth a try, had that one with the xbox 360, work fine after reassembling everything again
Sorry to hear witcherino, and too bad that I don't have a spare GPU (well I do, but that one is less powefull than your onboard ) atm otherwise I could have helped out.
@Lathieza: Works only with other problems, not in that case
@Drowning_witch: dont give up that fast, maybe just wrong or to much pressure on the chip from the cooling block. remove everything and be careful when reassembling the cooler, do not use to much force when tighten the screws. worth a try, had that one with the xbox 360, work fine after reassembling everything again
i tried several times, I think i just damaged the little transistors around the gpu die, or the factory paste had metal in it and during cleaining it got lodged inside one of the tiny things. fans do spin on the gpu, but there's nothing on screen.
Morphineus wrote:
Sorry to hear witcherino, and too bad that I don't have a spare GPU (well I do, but that one is less powefull than your onboard ) atm otherwise I could have helped out.
It's the thought that counts
it's gonna be a tough month or so until i scrounge up enough cash for gtx960. anything above would require way too much time and sacrifice in the food department, anything below is just too shit to even consider and the used market here is too risky with very little saving.
One positive is that I get to play old games for a while.
Lathieza wrote:
Tbh, i would have left the paste that had spilled over. It probably sat there already for a long time and it didn't have to be cleaned to apply some new paste on the chip itself
yeah, in retrospect, that sounds like something I should have done. might try the baking thing. I always thought that was only for nvidia 8 series. heard people ressurect 8800gtx like that.
this sucks... I'm sorry Witchy
While playing AC Unity nonetheless, Ubi you'll be damned.. twice!
Wish I could help, but had to sell all my cards for cash (only one left is a GT6600 that my father is using on my old dual core, go figure :<). On the bright side, at least if all the golden oldies work fine, you'll still have a lot of fun
(And with all the modern RPGs being patched and goty'd on weekly basis, waiting is recommended anyway)
im sure someone has a videocard laying around to help you out. many including myself hate selling old hardware for the single reason idiots end up buying it who end up breaking it and then send it back wanting their money back.
nope sorry, nothing left here. gave up buying new gfx cards, too expensive. always seek for trading offers now. traded my old 570 + 60bucks for a 770 about two years ago or so. maybe only an old gtx 260 lying around, dont know if i gave them to a friend when i got the 570.
I *might* be able to spare the 560ti I'm using now, but that will only happen when I buy a new GPU. I'd like to do that in the next two weeks but you never know.
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
I wouldn't wanna take somoene's only backup GPU, unless it's a 980 from interinactive
Kidding aside, lot's of oldies to catch up on + it will be a lesson in humility.
Gzdoom is giving the hd 4600 quite a work out. dynamic lighting actually results in slowdowns in certain scenarios. Probably down to intel's lolerific OpenGL driver.
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) atm otherwise I could have helped out. 
this sucks... I'm sorry Witchy 
