pls help, I was going to change my thermal pads on my gpu and this chip got stuck to the thermal pad and cracked off. Can I throw pads on it and be good?
pls help, I was going to change my thermal pads on my gpu and this chip got stuck to the thermal pad and cracked off. Can I throw pads on it and be good?
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Wow, that’s pretty aggressive there.
I’d be willing to bet you’ll be fine. It’s more insulation than anything for the coil inside which you can just barely see
Put a bit of clear nail polish over it to be sure
Maybe glue it back together with a very tiny dab of something like E6000? It’s made to be non-conductive, though it can take 24h to fully cure.
That’s an inductor, the housing is damaged but the conductor inside it is not. They are *tough* components. Whatever you did there was very rough.
I mean this in the best possible way: You are making a mess of this job! Go carefully, slowly, take your time, and get someone else to do it if you’re not confident.
This inductor is part of one of the VRM stages, messing those up is a very easy way to turn your video card into a brief display of chemistry and physics.
That’s an inductor, very small coil of wire packaged into a block. You’ve broken off a part of the housing, but the actual coil might be fine inside.
Get some clear nail polish and apply it to the broken part, and carry on with the job. Be more careful though, I have no idea how you did this but it looks like abuse.
Just how?????
Just make sure to put a amall piece of extra thermal pad over it, and make sure your thermal pad is not electrically conductive. The copper in there is likely enamled anyway, but just to be safe.
I heard baking it in an oven mix fix the issue.
Throw some rice on it. You’ll be fine
The top response is wrong. The grey material is not the “housing” it is the ferrite material that directs the magnetic field. This material is very prone to cracking, and likely broke before you touched it. Luckily, the damage shown doesn’t seem too bad. That inductor may have a lower saturation current than the other phases, and the risk is that it would overheat and cause damage to itself/nearby parts. I think the chance of that is low. If you have the bit that broke off, I would glue it back on using a very thin glue, like a small dab of super glue. If there’s a gap in the ferrite, it won’t be very effective. Otherwise, I’d just say leave it. When it’s running you could use a thermal camera or your fingers to check if that area is hotter than the other.
I wonder if heat cycles caused them yo get brittle over time. I mean, it is a pretty old card by today’s standards.
Its probably fine, but i would keep the cards on stock power limits from now on (until you can replace the inductor)
It has chipped off….
Badum tss