Anyone here know a guide of how to clean a MSI twin frozr III 7970 card?

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KaiserPhantasma

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I guess its "that" time of the year where its spring cleaning time for the rig but I don't have any ideas how to clean that specific card... do you know of any reliable guides on the net as I'm too afraid to pick it apart just based on a "random" website...

also thinking about solving the "coil whine" issue but don't know how to go about it...

any help would be appreciated
 
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StirB

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Well I don't know about the coil whine issues and I am not familiar with that graphics card, but I have taken many apart in my time from low end to ones that costs 900+ bucks. I pulled up a picture of the card and its a standard card design, the screws are normally on the circuit board side and not the plastic side. I would take off all the screws on the that side and if you don't have a good memory mark where they went or take good pictures. If you took off all the right screws the plastic part and the fans should come off very very easy, pretty much fall off. Do not take it off tho, gently lift it like 1/4 of a inch and peek in there to see if there are any connections you need to unplug first before removing. Remove them and take of off, clean the fans with air then alcohol pads to get off the caked on dust. Also do this for the heatsink and regrease it all, clean the thermal pads if they are dust but be careful NOT to tear them they are delicate.

Good luck, for such high end devices I always strap in.....


I do have to add this if ONLY for cards that have been ignored for a very long time, if its a new card just blow dust and skip this long step. This is also great if your card is over heating!
 
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If I recall, there was a guy that made homemade dampeners that he stuck to the chokes. For the life of me I can't remember what he used or even what forum it was, but it worked pretty well. Pretty much all of the HD 7970s sing under the right loads.
 
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you can stop coil whine 2 ways, but you will invalidate your warranty and potentially damage your gpu.

if your willing to risk it, you can inject some (very small amount) hot glue under the coil thats whining. it wont stop the vibration causing the whine but it will dampen the pitch to the point it will be inaudible to the human ear.

WARNING! if you dont have the skills to dismantle your card and assemble it into a working peice of kit. dont even attempt it...
the consequence of getting it wrong could potentially kill your pc.

the other way is re solder the coil, which is much safer long term but again shouldn't be attempted unless you know what your doing.
 
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KaiserPhantasma

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but that would just do away the dusts and and not those that got in the heatsink and the fans then?



I understand right off the bat when I bought it (even all reviews on the net) that it WILL have coil whine (audible ones) but I read from somewhere that IF you can replace the fans (as that guide said it was the fans that was causing it) you can minimize or even solve altogether the coil whine issue was just hoping someone here knows the link or knows it



pretty much similar to assembling a new rig then and the builder is a newbie (like me) :)



nearly similar to the solution that I once found but forgot to bookmark but what he did though was replace the fans altogether



Sorry but I'm now even sure what that is or what it looks like
 
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