1 00:00:00,719 --> 00:00:09,200 this will be a quick heatsink removal guide for the gtx 580 now there's a 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:12,719 reason that i have an empty package for a screwdriver sitting next to it and 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:19,119 that's that i actually had to run out and buy a screwdriver in order to get 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:21,920 the heat sink off so i had to get a torx 5 00:00:19,119 --> 00:00:26,480 number six oh no a t6 it's not yesterday i don't use number for torques 6 00:00:23,199 --> 00:00:28,960 apparently so i had to go get a t6 bit 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:32,800 precision screwdriver because the majority 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:38,000 of the screws on the back of this video card actually do use a torx which looks 9 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:42,239 like a star if you're not familiar with it hopefully i can get the camera to 10 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:44,719 focus on the GPU there so you can see that 11 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:49,120 so i've gone ahead and loaded the correct bit into my screwdriver already 12 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:53,520 so i will put that there and then that is how i will remove all the screws from 13 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:59,359 the back so you don't have to remove the screws on the shroud like here you only 14 00:00:56,399 --> 00:01:03,120 have to remove all the little screws on the back including the phillips head 15 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:07,920 ones here and that is how we will remove it so 16 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:11,600 bear with me in a moment so if you just want to replace the stock 17 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:15,479 thermal compound with something else this is about as far as you go so you 18 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:21,200 can see here the gf-110 GPU is right there and then 19 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:25,119 that's its corresponding cooling plate on the other side so i actually want to 20 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:28,400 take the cooler apart which means i'm going to have to delve in a little bit 21 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:32,479 further so i'm going to have to start undoing some of these other screws in 22 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:38,159 here because i want to have a look at the vapor chamber cooler that is 23 00:01:35,439 --> 00:01:41,520 responsible for keeping the gtx 580 so cool 24 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:44,799 at idle as well as under load now something to be aware of is if you are 25 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:50,399 replacing your stock thermal compound i guess that we could call this like a thermal compound removal guide too so 26 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:55,520 you know two birds with one stone you should use like um 27 00:01:52,799 --> 00:02:00,880 something lint free to wipe all of the thermal compound off of both surfaces 28 00:01:57,439 --> 00:02:02,560 use some 99 isopropyl or rubbing alcohol 29 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:05,920 to remove everything put on your new thermal compound bearing in mind you 30 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:10,000 should apply quite a bit more to a GPU than you would to a CPU because it's a 31 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,319 very large area it's got a big heat spreader on it you want to make sure 32 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:17,840 it's covered and then you put it back on now do not 33 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:20,800 replace the pads on the RAM or any of 34 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:24,720 the vrm because they are not thin they are not intended 35 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:28,319 so you can no you're not really going to be able to see that are you 36 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:32,480 you can kind of see they actually have some some depth to them the reason for 37 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:36,560 that is there are manufacturing tolerances when they're affixing all of 38 00:02:34,319 --> 00:02:40,000 these components to the pcb so they're not always going to be at exactly the 39 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:44,560 same height you need a little little bit of variance in terms of where they make 40 00:02:42,239 --> 00:02:49,200 contact so that is why they do use a thicker pad for those parts 41 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:54,239 so completely disassembling the cooler from that point was actually the 42 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:56,640 simplest step all i had to do was remove 43 00:02:54,239 --> 00:03:00,560 uh how many are there seven screws so there's one on the corner here one here 44 00:02:58,879 --> 00:03:05,040 one here one here and then there's three more on the bottom of the this is the 45 00:03:02,239 --> 00:03:09,599 plastic shroud that goes over top and it's actually hard to tell when you're 46 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:12,560 looking at the plastic shroud over the metal base that they're made of 47 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:16,720 different materials because the the finish on them is so close NVIDIA's done 48 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:20,239 a terrific job of making the card aesthetically appealing but this is 49 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:25,519 actually a metal heat spreader here on the base and the metal heat spreader is what's 50 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:28,959 responsible for doing the cooling of the RAM as well as the vrm so you can see 51 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:34,239 it's going to get a fair bit of incidental airflow from the fan itself 52 00:03:31,599 --> 00:03:37,519 which you can clearly see here all right 53 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:42,400 and uh so yeah that does all of that now the vapor chamber this 54 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:46,640 is where the magic happens um now with the gtx 580 i don't know if 55 00:03:44,879 --> 00:03:50,239 you'll you know what let me go get my 580 and then 56 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:54,159 so there's my 480 for contrast you can kind of see inside where it's got a 57 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:59,280 similar fin arrangement and then it's got these five massive heat pipes that 58 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:03,680 are carrying heat away from where the GPU is located right there 59 00:04:01,439 --> 00:04:08,879 to the aluminum fins so the vapor chamber is actually a fairly similar 60 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:13,680 technology to a heat pipe in that you're 61 00:04:08,879 --> 00:04:15,599 basically using a gaseous liquidy 62 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:20,000 substance inside sometimes it's water sometimes it's something else and you've 63 00:04:17,919 --> 00:04:24,080 got it at a very very low pressure in there which allows it to 64 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:29,120 basically boil at a with very little heat input and 65 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:33,040 then it will evaporate away and then it'll find a cooler part of the 66 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:37,280 vapor chamber or in this case a heat pipe so it'll go away from the hot GPU 67 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:41,360 come up to the cooler aluminum fins which are being cooled by the fan then 68 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:45,440 it'll turn back into a liquid and it'll be wicked away by the inside of the heat 69 00:04:43,199 --> 00:04:50,800 pipe back down to the GPU so the vapor chamber works similarly except that it's 70 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:54,400 kind of like a big huge flat 71 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:59,360 thin heat pipe so it takes all the heat from the GPU right here 72 00:04:56,479 --> 00:05:03,680 and disperses it very evenly over this big surface area so then NVIDIA throws 73 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:08,240 some aluminum fins on there and boom you've got a very 74 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:13,360 potent cooler now vapor chambers are at this time more expensive than 75 00:05:09,919 --> 00:05:16,160 implementing heat pipes but it is 76 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:20,880 from what we can see a more elegant solution overall so there is the vapor 77 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:25,280 chamber design so i'm going to throw this guy back together and thank you for 78 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:29,199 checking out my video on the disassembly and i guess thermal compound replacement 79 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:33,240 on the gtx 580.