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Thanks for this, was gonna remove the stock cooler on my xfx gtx 280 xt, its been artifacting at 70c and i was considering taking it apart to redo the thermal paste on the gpu. May just leave it as is and rma it.As far as I'm aware only Zotac and EVGA allow you to remove and replace the stock cooler for warranty purposes.