Compusa should sell the clips for the GPU heatsink on
your video card.
--- gfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, J Sand wrote:
> > If the heat sink sits flat on the chip, a good
> thermal grease should hold it 
> > on the chip.  I have worked on many PCs of the 486
> era that had heat sinks 
> > held on only by the thermal grease.
> 
> This is my current theory, and it appears to be
> working. I'm half-tempted 
> to see what happens if I put a tiny touch of glue
> onto the chip, too, but 
> for now it seems to work just sitting there. I think
> I'm gonna use a pair 
> of elastic bands streched from teh alternate clips
> on either side of the 
> main one to keep it from just sliding off.
> 
> This isn't new, when I first got this guy I snapped
> the little clips that 
> hold the vram in place. I had that problem licked by
> weding it down with a 
> top for a film can.
> 
> 
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