8800GT Voltage Regulator heatsink help

[Stephen]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a79/ryan7066/zalman1.jpg

The sticky thing on the heatsinks are like this:

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(imagine my edit is a straight rectangle - soz on laptop)
http://i25.tinypic.com/1rp8ac.jpg
Do i put em on like that?

[Stephen]

k ive put em on like that anyway. If its on wrong or i need more heatsinks then ill just get the turbo module asap

[Stephen!]

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m76/iJammin/IMG_9587.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m76/iJammin/IMG_9596.jpg

[Stephen]

i think i needed more heatsinks and thermal paste. 75 idle isn't good, it's worse than before lol.. I'm not gonna even dare play a game

actually i think it's just thermal paste. And I should of cut one of the voltage regulator heatsinks in half so it fitted better

[Stephen!]

The smaller you make the heatsink, the worse it's going to cool the vrm chip. Bad move.

[Stephen]

im gonna buy some new ones for the vrms. The ones I got with my cooler were made for the chips to be like

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but 8800gt is

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so they don't fit. I need square ones.

So

Heatsinks for vrm
Thermal Paste

[Recursion]

MX-2 Thermal paste ftw.

[hamheyelliot]

MX-2 Thermal paste ftw.
You've got taste in paste lol

http://i25.tinypic.com/2e2i4b8.jpg

[Stephen]

where can i get some new heatsinks for my vrm

and lol k no running games until I fix my cooler. Ran up a source game and my temp shot up to almost 100

[Stephen!]

If you're talking about the core temperature being over a hundred, then the problem is with the main heatsink's contact with the GPU.

[Stephen]

yeah the cooler already had thermal paste ready on it's heatsinks etc and I just thought hmm dunno if I need some more and I probably do cos there was hardly any on there tbh. I guess they do that on purpose so that you'll buy their one.

I have the accelero s1 rev 2 without the turbo module. Do you think It'd be alright if I just get the turbo module instead of more heatsinks because they're all partly covered (like in first post, second picture)

gonna buy:
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/45113/Arctic-Cooling-MX-2-Thermal-Paste-S027862-
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/45127/Arctic-Cooling-Turbo-Module-for-Accelero-VGA

[Stephen]

I got the stuff but it's still running idle in the 60s which is where it was with the stock cooler. And the turbo module comes with a 3 pin power plug so i can't plug it into the graphics card slot and I don't have a spare one of my mobo.

Can anyone tell me where I can get a 3-pin to 4-pin adapter for the fan so that I can plug it into my graphics card?

also with gpu-z what should I trust more? :P The gpu driver says the core temp is 65 but the adt7473 sensor chip says 56

[Stephen]

Actually it's not in the 60's it's decided to go in the 70s now so it's back to where it was yesterday. I put thermal paste on the gpu and spread it so it covered it.. HOW CAN IT BE HOT STILL

[Stephen!]

You should have bought the cooler I recommended. :P

[Stephen]

I didn't wanna pay £37 for the cooler and fan :P Plus it would probably be hot with that too. I think it's my case airflow maybe? I probably need a fan on them. So stupid though because I looked on other online shops and they actually give you a 3-pin to 4-pin adapter but the place i bought mine from didn't :S

Off website: "3 pin plug (with power plug convertor)" I didn't have a converter in mine.. Stupidstupidstupid. Seriously everythings going wrong when I've been putting this in. First the temp, then a screw got wedged on my mobo and now I haven't got a converter for the 3-pin fan power plug

[Stephen]

finally I can play games again! Took it all apart, made sure I made that gpu sparkle then reapplied the thermal paste to everything. I also took some of the slots out of the back of my case for better ventilation and I'm getting 65-70 load on games. I've ordered a 3-pin to 4-pin adapter which should arrive next week so I'll have the fan installed then which should drop the temp.

But I'm happy I can play games til then, atleast it isn't going in the 90s on a flash game anymore..

[LMS16]

MX-2 Thermal paste ftw.

Arctic silver ftw :)

Lew.

[Stephen!]

OCZ Freeze!