Recent content by davgothic

Indeed, it's what the fan had forced onto the heatsink. D:

OK so I took your advice and put some Artic Silver on it and removed the dust (pictured) now running at a fairly quiet 68 °C at idle. Thanks for all your advice, I'm still concerned about the temps especially after what @postmortemIA said so I may well buy the 7870 at some point in the...

Thanks for the reply, I'm currently considering either doing as you suggested or buying a Sapphire HD7870 2GB GDDR5 from amazon. If I were to decide to upgrade, are there any known issues with the HD7870 or are there any cards that would be a more suitable improvement over a 4870?

Hi I have had my Sapphire HD4870 512MB for a few years now and I'm getting sick of the fan noise, it's constantly up at 100% 5 minutes after turning on my computer. I just ran GPU-Z to have a look at the readings and I'm not sure they are healthy. My card currently sat at idle is reporting...