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Repasting the GeForce FX5600

Please read discription: Repasting the GeForce FX5600 from my P4 socket 423 system. There wasn't an actual need to do it, it ran just fine, but, it doesn't hurt to repaste it either. Before starting to take the card apart (which isn't nearly as much work as modern GPU's) I did a few benchmarks/games to warm the card up, so the thermal paste as a bit smoother making it somewhat easier to remove the heatsink. The cooler is realy simple, 2 pushpins holding a small heatsink/fan in place. However, pinching the pushpins and pushing them through the PCB is a bit tricky...especialy when trying to do it while watching through a 4 inch or so screen from the camera. That didn't work very well and had to cut it out. I gently moved the heatsink back and forth to get it off the GPU. Pulling hard can damage the solder underneath the chip. Once removed you could see someone had done a repaste before...but forgot to remove the old paste first! Many of those old GPU's used to have some white thermal paste, which was still visible here (and not dried out mind you!). But who ever did the repaste, simply added new paste without removing the old stuff. So I cleaned up the GPU and the heatsink with 96% alcohol and added some new paste. As you might notice it was a bit too much paste, I am used to using Arctic Silver which is a bit of a thick paste and you have to press harder to get the stuff out of the syringe. Doing that here with some cheap stuff that came with my Coolermaster CPU cooler (years ago, not used in this system) ment too much paste came out. Ah well, no big deal, put back the heatsink and let it run. No artefacts or burning smell, so all is well :P (though the VRM's get hot and smell a bit) But what about the temperatures? I hear you ask, well, I've used a few programs for hardwaremonitoring, but non of them could detect the thermal sensor of the GeForce....if it even has one. I think it can be read with the original Asus software....which I ofcourse don't have. Most webpages from old hardware (like the FX5600) are 404 anyway so didn't bother looking for it either. The heatsink and backside of the PCB hit about 60-70 degrees so, it should be fine (measured with an IR thermometer). Q: Hey, new cooler on the CPU? A: Yes, I managed to find a proper cooler for the socket 423 Pentium. Even tried to make a video of it...which...didn't turn out so well, so never bothered to upload it. It's a Zalman 5100! Q: That PC makes more noise that a hairdryer! A: Yup, it is indeed very noisy, but I don't care. It's like it's your main system or you need to do office work or anything on it. Q: That PC makes more noise that a jetplane! A: Now you're overdoing it! Q: The FPS suck! My card can do over 9000FPS in 3dMark2001! A: Yeah, but this isn't a Titan XP, Vega 64 or 1080Ti, this is a FX5600...on a Pentium 4! (AMD64 got a lot more FPS with the same FX5600 card though).