First post, by biessea
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Hi all friends,
here I am another day in the beautiful world of old hardware in the best forum in the world!
Today I have a new challenge, I have bought an old Quadro FX 3000 for 30 bucks, the seller said it remains in a closet for about 10 years.
I powered on and It runs correctly!
But after some test I immediately saw that something was wrong.
I decided to going deep and downloaded the old software Ntune, to monitor the card and I saw after some seconds that the GPU went to throttle.
The temperature exceeded the 100 degrees sometimes and so the GPU went from the original 400mhz to a 300mhz state (1,3v. against 1,2v. in throttle mode).
So I decided to do something, I cannot see a videcard throttling with its nice original cooler just beacuse, and I'm sure about it, under the IHS the paste (tim) is sure went away or worse, isn't more at all and the NV35 GPU don't make contact to the heatspreader.
And this is the situation because the GPU went more than 100 degrees and the cooler feels only a little warm, not so hot.
Anyway I read on internet if someone do that process to remove the heatspreader and unlucky I didn't found so much, only a thread where the OP said that he removed the HIS and the situation went better drastically, but unfortunately the post was so old and he doesn't posted any photo recommendation.
So I decided to do by myself. I will use a heat gun, a little knife.. and liquid metal paste. I hope to succed and I will post results and photo so someone will find one day this thread useful, I hope.
I attach the screenshot of the Rivatuner program where you can easily see the throttling.
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