How 2 take off coolers on 9700PRO?

[ibeloved]

Hi,
I just want to know how to take off the cooler on ATI 9700PRO? I tried to take off it by force, but I am afriad to break it. Could anybody tell me how to do it?

 

[FUGGER]

There are 2 pins holding it down. in the center of the pin it pulls out from the top enabling the lower portion to collapse and fir back thru hole. There is a TIM material that will be damaged when you remove the HSF.

You will also find that the core is countersunk and you will need a thick glob of artic silver compound to fill the gap. Do not get artic silver on the green area of the top of the core. You will see small surface mount parts that can be shorted out with AS3.

You can remove the silver shim around the outside of the core but it will obviously void your warrantly.

Leave the HSF on if you do not have any backup heat sink compound to fill the void. Do not expect to put it back on with original TIM material as it usually gets destroyed when you take it apart.

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[ibeloved]

Thank you very very much!!!!!!!!!
But I wanna put AS3 in the gap (about 1mm)between VPU and HSF, do you know any kind of backup HSF I can use?

 

[FUGGER]

Nope, I use a waterblock on my R9700

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[Crashman]

You could make a gap filler, get a sheet of copper and cut it!

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[LCARS]

Probably better to have all the right materials on hand before doing this to a $350+ video card.