I got this Acer Aspire 5920G with a faulty HD3470 256MB. I tried to fix it with a heatgun and it worked but later I tried to flash the BIOS for doing an underclock and it failed. Now I got a bricked card. I want to replace it with a new HD3650 from Ebay ( New ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 MXM II 256MB DDR3 Graphics VGA video Card Acer | eBay). It says that have a ACER VBIOS, but I don't know if it will work on my notebook. What do you think?
Sorry about my English, I write from Spain.
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It should work just fine.
For other cards that are confirmed to work see here. -
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I have one more question. What I should use on GPU? Thermal pad or thermal paste?
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First of all - don't use pads. If there is a need for something more than just a thermal paste, use a copper shim. If not - got for paste only.
Thermal pads are not that great in terms of thermal conductivity. -
And what I do with the thermal pads on the memory chips? I change it for thermal paste or I live it?
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Thermal pads are OK for memory chips - memory doesn't get even nearly as hot as the core so it's not that essential to cool it down.
We are talking about DDR2 here - it would do without a radiator at all if it had to. -
I read that some people used cooper pads instead of thermal paste or thermal pads. There is enough space to use only thermal paste on GPU? -
I can't tell you that - you should see yourself if the radiator makes good contact or not.If it doesn't than copper shim is the way to go.
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Safe- yes. Particularly good - no.
65*C at idle is slightly too hot. Check what happens under load- if it doesn't heat up too much you can as well leave it as it is.
If it gets above 85/90*C (which BTW is not an unsafe temperature) it probably means you need to tweak the setup a bit (possibly with a copper shim).
Acer 5920G Graphic card replacing
Discussion in 'Acer' started by phobos1911, Nov 29, 2013.