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9500 Pro - stock cooling adequate to OC?

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Easy1

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Flashed bios and OC fine 324/310.5 for now. However, when I was looking over the card to check the memory type I noticed to my dismay that what I thought was a huge heatsink appears to be nothing more than a big chunk of plastic with a fan sitting in the middle of it. There may be a small heatsink buried under all that plastic somewhere - not sure. I don't see how this thing can be effective at all. So my question is this: is this really adequate cooling to overclock this card?
 
What brand of 9500 Pro do you have? Ati/Saphire cards are all Aluminum, big with a more than decent fan for 350MHz operation.
 
This is an ATI card. Heatsink sure looks and feels like plastic. You certain this is aluminum? I may yank the card again and try to scratch it to see if it is metal under that black coating.
 
Killrose, you seem to know a lot about these ATIs. I have a question for you. When I purchased my 9500PRO, I was told it was a Sapphire. BUT, I thought Saphhires were on black pcbs. Mine's on a red pcb with an ATI label on the fan. I checked the memory and it's Infineon, if that helps.

Just curious as to what brand my card is.

bump for the cooling question. want to get one too for my card. 🙂

EDIT: it was an OEM so that's why i don't know what brand it is. the warp bios thing worked for me.
 
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