So I cooked a video card #2

Originally here -> http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/so-i-cooked-a-video-card.439687/#post-5582072

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This is an update, 6 years later from the point of the above link.

After killing 2 cards, an learning the destructive damage to the main gpu chip, I no longer recommend cooking any video card unless you plan to toss it in the trash.

I ended up going thru a guy to re-ball the card with lead based sauder, from his position lead free sauder cracks over time & is the root cause of why electronics fail.

He replaced the chip (I don't know how or who his supplier is so don't ask me), re-balled the card, an returned it to me, so far it works just fine, an I'm looking for cooling mods to prevent another death of my gpu.

Anyone who wants to say oh.. asus c90s is an old system don't blow money on that, blah blah.
I don't care.. I'm fixing it up as a educational experience to improve my own skills for the next laptop.

I thought about water cooling but that's just too much for a laptop.
I thought about a mini AC system.. but that winds up being too much like the above.
An I don't mean too much $, I mean too much hardware & defeats the point of it being a laptop anymore.

So back to copper heat sinks an fans or whatever I can find, someone out there must know something
about it, lemme know?

Remember it's an educational thing of sorts, eventually I'd like to say I know wtf I'm doing when
making future cooling mods.

An once more.. no more cooking cpu/gpu's guys.. it warps the internal chip somehow.. aka faster death.
There is no permanent advantage to that so.. yeah quit doing that.

 

cooking as in the oven/heatgun thing to fix the solder? it gives a temporary fix only. reballing is for long term. Super common problem for older PS3.

as for cooling, adding some little copper heatsinks help, but only a little. depends on how much room u got in there, some people put in some copper heatsinks along with a little fan in there to move air around.

i bought a set of little ram heatsinks off ebay, helps to dissipate a tiny bit, but nothing revolutionary. within a laptop there is only so much you can do. from my experience its best to just clean the heatsink with some compressed air every few weeks and it runs alright.

 

I thought the title was a metaphor for death by overclocking but you literally cooked your GPU in an oven... woah!

 

Really, you never heard of the oven trick for reviving dead GPUs?

 

Only recently. Still find it difficult to comprehend how tough these lumps of silicon can be!

 

I regulary check my temps and gpu is always lower than 80C(even during hot summer)..had most problems with cpu but solved by putting in power managment on 99% and no game benefited from the turbo boost except GTA 4 and emulators like dolphin and pcsx2.I think overclocking is worth but you must have limits.There is a point where the extra 10 or 20mhz arent needed cause you need to give for every 10mhz later in overclocking 12.5 mv more(at least in my case) and i found the sweet spot between performance and heat.I can maybe push a little more but i dont need extra 0.5fps which will result in maybe 3-4C more temperature cause of more voltage.

 

Problem is, this thing is stock. It idles at 78C

Need GPU cooling solutions.. an tiny heat sinks won't do the job, not here.