XFX Radeon HD 5850 taken apart
I haven't even fired this thing up, and I already knew I would have to mod it. I can't in good conscience put that ugly batmobile like red hunk of plastic in my rig.
I started to take it apart, and although I had absolutely no intention on taking the cooler off, they are intertwined.
Now I'm at work and my Arctic Céramique is at home and so is my Black Krylon Fusion..... sigh. I must tape it off and get to painting the ugly red parts.
Pics will follow, as the fun unfolds.:tongue2:
I started to take it apart, and although I had absolutely no intention on taking the cooler off, they are intertwined.
Now I'm at work and my Arctic Céramique is at home and so is my Black Krylon Fusion..... sigh. I must tape it off and get to painting the ugly red parts.
Pics will follow, as the fun unfolds.:tongue2:
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Zuntar as I haven't looked at that unit before, how close to the pcb does the edges of the shroud come?
Thrax is right. The 58xx stock cooler is designed with performance in mind. The tradoffs? Its heavy for one, but most performance stock coolers are, and when you ramp it up for overclocking it will be the loudest fan in your system, but if solid air cooling performance is what you want and the weight and the noise have no reason to put you off, your just as well leaving the Radeon 58xx coolers recommended stock cooler.
Saphire makes a model with their "Vapor X" cooler, and overclockers are not finding it to be significantly more effective, but it is much, much quieter when the fan is ramped up for overclocking.
The stock heatsink cools great though, I'd really struggle to load my card past the high 50's C, and thats running stock fan speed which is not too loud. If I ramp that fan up the card gets downright chilly, I'm talking single digit deltas from room temp chilly, but its freaking loud when you get it there.
Glad to see black pcb instead of red too.
The sad thing is that design did not carry over to the 5970. Stock temps on those cards sit around 64C+ and under load reached an easy 85C+
Much better eh?
Does anyone want to see any other /different views of the raw card or cooler before I stick it together?
Anyway, I gree that does look better.
Not yet, it is still in pieces.;) I'll post more pics when I'm done.
On this card it is all or nothing. There are a bunch of tiny screws on the back of the card, and all of them have to come off. there are two on the end of the card that is toward the outside of the case as well. All that will loosen the heatsink for the memory, but you have to unscrew the 4 main heat sink screws to remove any of it. Be careful on the fan connector, the wires are very short!! Then you can unscrew the plastic shroud from the memory heat sink and you are done!
Well done, sir.
Already on it bro, I have a bunch of this left over from other parts of my case!
I might still do that, but I am way paranoid about unbalancing it.
Now that would pick up the bling factor!!
This hater of red agrees!!