So I had taken the stock HSF off of my 7900 GTO and has run it with a Danger Den Koolah water block.
I decided to go back to air and sell the block in anticipation of changing out the card altogether.
I cleaned the stock HSF of all thermal paste and (now regretting it) removed and threw away the heat tape (or whatever that stuff is that covers the memory).
In installing the old HSF I have applied a coating of AS on the cpu and mem chips. Unfortunately I have discoverd that the mem chips actually make no contact at all with the HSF. There is a visible space. The GPU seems to be a high spot on the card.
What do people do to take up the space.
My though is to remove the HSF and get rid of the AS and instead smear a bunch of Acrtic Alumina on the mem chips to take up the space. It does not seem that efficient thought ...
Advice/Thoughts??
I decided to go back to air and sell the block in anticipation of changing out the card altogether.
I cleaned the stock HSF of all thermal paste and (now regretting it) removed and threw away the heat tape (or whatever that stuff is that covers the memory).
In installing the old HSF I have applied a coating of AS on the cpu and mem chips. Unfortunately I have discoverd that the mem chips actually make no contact at all with the HSF. There is a visible space. The GPU seems to be a high spot on the card.
What do people do to take up the space.
My though is to remove the HSF and get rid of the AS and instead smear a bunch of Acrtic Alumina on the mem chips to take up the space. It does not seem that efficient thought ...
Advice/Thoughts??
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