{"id":5716,"date":"2003-07-14T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/14\/5716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:21","slug":"5716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/14\/5716\/","title":{"rendered":":)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh&#8230; The video card has been removed from the G4 Cube and placed in the freezer. Why, you ask? Well, it seems I dorked in epoxying the heatsink on and I need to remove it*. I think I screwed up the application of epoxy and didn&#8217;t get an even layer on the GPU. So, I&#8217;m borrowing a tube of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcticsilver.com\">Arctic Silver<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcticsilver.com\/arctic_silver_thermal_adhesive.htm\">Silver Thermal Adhesive<\/a> from a friend and I&#8217;m going to reapply the heatsink. Hopefully it will all go smoothly. The only problem I can see running into is if I crack the GPU when removing the heatsink, if I can&#8217;t get the epoxy off of the heatsink, or of I fail to apply the adheasive properly. Again. We&#8217;ll see&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dingleberrypie.com\/gallery\/g4cube_geforce2\/DCP_1017\">Click on this for a picture of the card in the freezer&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Removal is accomplished by chilling the card inside a baggie then popping the heatsink off with a screwdriver. I&#8217;ve done it before, we&#8217;ll see if it works this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh&#8230; The video card has been removed from the G4 Cube and placed in the freezer. Why, you ask? Well, it seems I dorked in epoxying the heatsink on and I need to remove it*. I think I screwed up the application of epoxy and didn&#8217;t get an even layer on the GPU. So, I&#8217;m\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15915,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions\/15915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}