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How to Cool Graphics Card

Recently, new generations of Graphics Card have made a great improvement on functionalities as well as performances. However many of contemporary Graphics Card have been beyond the upper limits of processing production technology so that we have to be faced with how to cool Graphics Card imperatively.

At the same time, black screen, flicking screen and blue screen have troubled us again and again in our daily multimedia life. Once again, cooling Graphics Card can figure you out in such cases. Therefore, to cool Graphics Card is a must for our daily smooth and flexible multimedia life.

And here, we will get you informed of how to cool Graphics Card from the perspectives of both purchasing as well as installing the right cooling fan to cool graphics cards subsequently.

1. How to choose cooling fans to cool Graphics Cards

Generally, cooling fans available in the market are classified by ordinary fans and ball bearing fans: Specifically, the former ones play the role of lubrication by lubrication oil, but they are almost big in noise, small in wind power and short in lifetime so that it is easy to cause PC crashes or burn Graphics Cards clips by overheat over time.

On the contrary, the ball bearing fan equipped with many small balls, which featured by big wind power, small noise and long lifetimes can reduce friction greatly. Overall, ball bearing fans are highly recommended to you with such obvious advantages.

Meanwhile, when you are to purchase cooling fans, size of cooling fans and height of cooling fans shoud be attached into great importance as well: On one hand, size of cooling fan is vital to heat dissipation functionalities. And it is advisable to choose those fans whose base is larger than the area of installed Graphics Cards chips. On the other hand, height of cooling fans are critical to cooling graphics cards in that too high will cause conflicts with the nearby expansion cards, but too low will make a negative effect on spreading heat. So 1- 1.5 cm height will be ideal, and better cooling effects will be achieved with equipment of drain outer bar and flat design as well.

2. How to install cooling fans to cool Graphics Cards

At present, Graphics Cards have been already equipped with heat sink. Therefore, you should knife off the original cooling fan to install your purchased ones. And when you are doing so, a lot of white grease and silicone will be saw visibly. In order to prepare to coat thermal conductivity silicon, you should clean it up with glasses rubbing cloth damped with alcohol or linen cloth first of all.

Having removed the original heat sink of graphics card, purchased cooling fan can be installed right now: In the first place, damp glue between the two already polished surfaces with flat screwdriver. And then, coat the places between heat sink base and GPU chips with appropriate amount of thermal conductivity silicon.

Subsequently, it will be easy to install cooling fans. To be specific, you just need to aim mounting holes to that of PCB, and then nail the spring card firmly to finalize the whole process. But there is onething you should pay attention to that the t thermal conductivity silicon affiliated with chips are needed to be coated in case that base of cooling fan cannot touch the clips when spring nails are employed.

Ultimately, connect your cooling fans into electricity cable. And there is something to add that to joint it to another cable instead of Graphics Card directly can lessen power supply pressure for AGP slot.

By the way, to ensure superb and optimal functionalities of Graphics Card, its affiliated drivers should be also maintained optimal and best sates as well. Therefore, ATI Drivers software of Driver Detective is highly proposed you with its automatical and powerful performances.

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