For the same reason I'd glue 3 inches of Play-doh on to the end of my penis. Without detailed looks, it's huge-mongous! Up close and personal, just for show...
Originally Posted by MaverickWill For the same reason I'd glue 3 inches of Play-doh on to the end of my penis. Without detailed looks, it's huge-mongous! Up close and personal, just for show...
Originally Posted by MaverickWill For the same reason I'd glue 3 inches of Play-doh on to the end of my penis. Without detailed looks, it's huge-mongous! Up close and personal, just for show...
Originally Posted by MaverickWill For the same reason I'd glue 3 inches of Play-doh on to the end of my penis. Without detailed looks, it's huge-mongous! Up close and personal, just for show...
Does the heatsink + cooler need to come off the PCB + chips in order to expose the heatsink top and fan top itself?
It's important to be able to get at the fan and heatsink internals for declogging cards as they age - they get filled up with dust over time and can overheat. I was able to greatly improve the performance of my 8800GTX recently by cleaning it out.
The job is made much easier if you can simply take off the plastic shroud and get at the fan + heatsink directly, rather than having to muck about with fan attachment cables, heatsink paste, etc.
Originally Posted by barrkel Does the heatsink + cooler need to come off the PCB + chips in order to expose the heatsink top and fan top itself?
It's important to be able to get at the fan and heatsink internals for declogging cards as they age - they get filled up with dust over time and can overheat. I was able to greatly improve the performance of my 8800GTX recently by cleaning it out.
The job is made much easier if you can simply take off the plastic shroud and get at the fan + heatsink directly, rather than having to muck about with fan attachment cables, heatsink paste, etc.
Screws - Backside plate - PCB from whole heatsink assembly - more screws - plastic shroud from aluminium plate/copper vapour chamber. You cannot remove the plastic without removing it from the PCB first, there are tiny screws underneath holding it all together.
I think you missed a real oppurtunity here. With the ever increasing temps of GPUs it would be a good experiment to use this tear down as a chance to remove the thermal compound and replace it with a ultra thin layer of high quality compound as you would with a CPU and then see what temps you get.
I'd love to see someone make a mod for this + a HAF932's side fan..Basically a giant shroud, and using the side fan as an exhaust(or intake if you plan on using the orignal fan too).
Or not, but this is still nowhere near the 9800GX2 or GTX295's in terms of difficulty and awesomness when you take it apart, those things had 2 boards in one shroud!!
hmm, and here i was expecting to see 3 fans as shown in the previously leaked images where each gpu had its own fan + the end fan.
Who else kinda/not really/was really surprised to not see 3 fans?
I can't believe Black Friday and Black Saturday left me both camping for 18 hours in total, just to find absolutely no one carrying the Radeon HD 5970s...
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Replylol :p cool. Wonder why ATI added so much waste length onto it.
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A-HAHAHA!
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Ditto. Might want some soap with that.
It's important to be able to get at the fan and heatsink internals for declogging cards as they age - they get filled up with dust over time and can overheat. I was able to greatly improve the performance of my 8800GTX recently by cleaning it out.
The job is made much easier if you can simply take off the plastic shroud and get at the fan + heatsink directly, rather than having to muck about with fan attachment cables, heatsink paste, etc.
It's a PCB with some memory, a couple of big ASICs plus a bit of glue logic and miscellaneous power supply components.
What did you expect to see?
Screws - Backside plate - PCB from whole heatsink assembly - more screws - plastic shroud from aluminium plate/copper vapour chamber. You cannot remove the plastic without removing it from the PCB first, there are tiny screws underneath holding it all together.
My handphone had been torn down thrice in an hour when I had nothing to do during a lesson.
Or not, but this is still nowhere near the 9800GX2 or GTX295's in terms of difficulty and awesomness when you take it apart, those things had 2 boards in one shroud!!
Who else kinda/not really/was really surprised to not see 3 fans?
I really like to see how far these things can go without the heat holding them back.
I'm on the waiting list!
I can't believe Black Friday and Black Saturday left me both camping for 18 hours in total, just to find absolutely no one carrying the Radeon HD 5970s...
*cries to AMD*
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