XFX Radeon 5750, redoing thermal goop

[fishrule]

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.

 

[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.

 

[fishrule]

I've done it on nearly every graphics card I've ever owned that had a heat sink (which was basically everything after the Voodoo 2) and have never had a problem. I was just looking for users with similar experiences, not a flame war.

 

[Shadow703793]

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.

Umm.... a 5750 is NOT a low end card. A GTS210/220, 4350, 8400GS are low end cards. A 5750 is mid high card.

 

[rodney_ws]

I lost interest in this thread when I realized the OP wouldn't be able to provide before and after numbers. Sad.

 

[rodney_ws]

And Shadow would know a thing or two about low-end cards... 8400GS? *snicker*

 

[ubernoobie]

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.

XFX has mod proof warranty

 

[Attila_the_pun]

I have the same card and it works fine with the provided thermal paste, the temps never get high at all.