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How do I remove the heatsink on a Creative Ti4400?
Cheers for that John, I've just gone and ordered the Zalman cooler. Just one
other question - how do I clean up the chip when I've removed the heatsink? Is there anything in particular I should use? Andy. "John Smith" wrote in message ... I had the same thing on my Geforce 4460MX. If you look at the bottom of the black clip it has a little - tiny in fact - end which can be squeezed together. If you squeeze these together - your fingers will do it but pilers can be safer and easier - and then push gently upwards they will suddenly fly out with some force. Be careful, when I say they fly out they fly out at speed and the first time I did this I was very glad that the clips were facing away from my face as I think they could cause a nasty injury to eyes and bits and pieces so be warned. They are spring loaded. Once you have them out it is very easy to see how they work, to pop them back in and out but that first time it looks as if they are permanently attached to the board. Once the pins/clips are removed you need to carefully wriggle your fan. I had to twist mine and ended up using quite some force to pull the fan off the chip as it was stuck on strongly. Clean up the chip, apply some thermal grease and attach the Zalman cooler. Putting a Zalman VGA and Zalman 7000 CPU cooler in my PC were the best investments I have ever made. J. "Andrew Lee" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've just bought and fitted a Zalman Flower Cooler and 300W Silent PSU for my Athlon XP system. They've cut down on a fair bit of system noise, but now, all I can hear is the whoosh of my Creative Geforce4 Ti4400 card, and it's already driving me nuts. I haven't got the money for a new card (the Creative's only a year old anyway), so what I'd like to do is get a Zalman ZM80A-HP silent heat pipe cooler for the card. The thing is, I can't work out how to remove the existing Creative heatsink from the card - it's fastened onto the card with these two black 'pins' (for want of a better word) with not a screw in sight. How do I remove the heatsink, assuming it is possible in the first place? And once the heatsink has been removed, is the ZM80A actually compatible with the Creative card? I'd be grateful if anyone with experience of combining the two could give me a few pointers in the right direction. Cheers. Andy. |
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