Cooling my GTX!

Simon prosser, ,

My 8800 was idling at ~70 and when in game i was hitting +85C! So i decided to take the thing apart and apply some decent paste on the chip…heres a few pics:

Heres the GTX with the heatsink exposed…

exposed

Heatsinks off now, look at the horrible NVidia grey crap…

heatsink off

Here we are all cleaned up and ready for putting back together…

cleaned up

So the results….

Idle: Before ~70C After 62C
Load: Before ~85C After 79C

Not really a huge difference, but at least i know how to get the thing apart for when i get one of these monsters this weekend! :p

new heatsink

Cooling my GTX!

Bankcard HACKED!!

Simon prosser, 1 Comment

A fone call from India woke me this morning! I was kind of annoyed as today is my day off so i was hungover 😉 Anyway the guy told me there had been some strange transactions on my card and asked me to verify them, apparently I’d attempted to buy a £450 holiday and a £200 mobile from Orange, both had been denied as I only had £140 in the account the only thing that had gone through was a £1 donation to CAF!

Bankcard HACKED!!