Tom's Hardware: Topic XFX Radeon 5750, redoing thermal goop
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I just finished building my budget gaming box with an Athlon II 620 CPU and Radeon 5750 graphics card. Anyways I removed the cooler and replaced the stock crap with Zalman Super Thermal Grease. I forgot to bench the GPU temps for before results (since it never even made it into the PC before I did that 
), but has anyone done what I did with the 5xxx series?
The amazing thing was how awful the stock thermal compound was. The card hadn't even been used yet and when I opened it up it had already taken on a dust like quality. I simply passed a clean rag over it and it all came off. I don't know what that stuff was, but it was pretty crap. What do you guys think? I'm just looking for user input to see if other people have been doing this.
Message edited by fishrule on 11-02-2009 at 01:58:38 AM
brockh
Why in gods name do people do this with these low end cards? 
All it does is void your warranty and give you an extra chance to mess something up in the process.
| brockh wrote : Why in gods name do people do this with these low end cards? |
Umm.... a 5750 is NOT a low end card. A GTS210/220, 4350, 8400GS are low end cards. A 5750 is mid high card.
Reply to Shadow703793
| brockh wrote : Why in gods name do people do this with these low end cards? |
XFX has mod proof warranty
Message edited by ubernoobie on 11-02-2009 at 10:02:57 PM
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