Hi,
I fiited an Arctic Cooling Silencer (6800 rev) to my graphics card yesterday, however, I discovered a crack in the upper-left part of the GPU after taking off original heatsink.
First of all, is this a major problem? I understand about contraction and expansion of the gpu when it is being used so I can only imagine this can only get worse, right?
As anyone still used , with no problems, a graphics card with a fractured GPU?
Have i got an expensive paperweight on my hands here?
Having said this, I did continue to fit the new heatsink to the pcb board. I made sure, as carefully as possible, not to overtighten screws (after applying MX-1 Thermal paste) I then ran 3d mark 05 (twice in succession) and also 3D Mark 06 (twice) and I still manage to get respectable scores. 1 big problem is that I did notice some artifacts at a particular clock level that I had never observed before!
I fiited an Arctic Cooling Silencer (6800 rev) to my graphics card yesterday, however, I discovered a crack in the upper-left part of the GPU after taking off original heatsink.
First of all, is this a major problem? I understand about contraction and expansion of the gpu when it is being used so I can only imagine this can only get worse, right?
As anyone still used , with no problems, a graphics card with a fractured GPU?
Have i got an expensive paperweight on my hands here?
Having said this, I did continue to fit the new heatsink to the pcb board. I made sure, as carefully as possible, not to overtighten screws (after applying MX-1 Thermal paste) I then ran 3d mark 05 (twice in succession) and also 3D Mark 06 (twice) and I still manage to get respectable scores. 1 big problem is that I did notice some artifacts at a particular clock level that I had never observed before!
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