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How easy is it to take the XFX R290 DD apart

Phil2008

Phil2008

Phil2008

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Hi guys, I think I need to redo the past on my XFX r290 DD black edition as the temp goes up to 94c in furmark and then it throttles. I have just changed cases from a fractal design r3 to a cooltek w2. with the r3, the temp went to about 84c running furmark, but Im thinking that I could have knocked the card or something and buggered up the seal?

Has anyone took the cooler off this card and if so, was it easy todo
 
Thanks guys, I have a feeling that its probably down to my case, when running games the temps are in the high 70s, normally about 74c with the R3 case. I am also thinking to swap the exhaust fan from my R3 case to the cooltek as the fan throws more heat out of the case while gaming.

I am a tad gutted as I really like the smallness of the case and to be honest, I would have thought it would be cooler then the R3 case as the front fans are larger and closer to the gpu and cpu?

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Ummm thanks guys for your posts, most appreciated, I know one thing for sure, I am going to redo the cpu paste as the heatsink has been pulled about and twisted, so the seal has deffo gone on that, even tho the cpu temps are still quite good.

Like if it was down to me I would have the gpu apart without thinking about it, but because my hands are not very steady I have to rely on other people todo these sort of jobs for me.

I haven't actually tested it with the side off no,, but again because the side panel is glass I need someone else to remove it for me.

I will change my sig now, sorry about that JTrickle
 
I might just stick a better rear fan so to get rid of the heat faster when gaming and see how that goes for a few days.. Heres my temps after about 20mins of grid autosport

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No I only did the paste on the chip and the cooler sat back down perfectly, maybe I used too little as I use the spread technique and as thinly as I could get it?
 
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Im a bit stumped as I dont think the redoing of the AS5 could have been done much better,, I am going to have another attempt tomorrow, but I dont think its going to be any different... It is only the gpu chip that needs the paste isnt it and I dont need todo anything with the memory chips do I?

Running furmark now the temp gets to 94c within 2mins. Before the temps got to 94c in about 5-6mins.
 
I removed the old paste from gpu and heatsink and got them as clean as possible.

I then put a blob on AS5 in the middle of gpu.

With my finger in a plastic food bag, I spread it so it covered the chip as thinly as possible.
I then placed the cooler with the heatsink attached, as it was all in one, back onto the board as straight as possible, trying not to slide the heatsink around on the gpu

put the 4 screws in that holds down the heatsink, then put in the hunderds of screws in(lol)

I just don't know where I went wrong as the last gpu I had to redo the paste was on a 3870, and I didnt have any problems with that after.
 
BluD said:
If your using AS5 be careful, its conductive, i would use non conductive if you have any then you dont have to worry about putting too much on. Make sure you dont put too much on and get it on the components around the core.

If your temps have gone up then either your contact aint great or theres some contamination in the paste, a hair or dust can cause poor contact or maybe one of your thermal pads have moved when you took the heatsync off and are now preventing the core making good contact.

If you have good contact all the paste will be pushed out around the outside of the core and there will just be a square shaped stain on the heat sync with a line of paste around it.

Like ED says to tighten it back on you start by loosely fitting the 4 screws behind the core and then tighten them a little at a time on the opposite corners.
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I have used AS5 forever and just bought some more todo this job with.. I use the spread way so I know for sure its not going anywhere else accept on the chip.

I will tighen the 4 screws up slower around the heatsink, as I did the first 2 diagonal screws finger tight first, then tightened them up.
 
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Thanks, I just hope I see an obvious problem when I take the card apart again. I did the cpu at the same time, the same way and no probs with the temps, cores in the high 60's running intel burntest on maximum stress,

Danny75 said:
Just one random suggestion from looking at your setup in that lovely case with unfortunately very poor front intake: have your CPU cooler fan running high all the time, to help funnel air to the rear fan.

Also, I'd only buy that case for use with a hot GPU if I was going to mod the front panel.
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The cpu temps are near enough at the same temps as they were in my fractal design r3 case, Its like the heat gets stuck in the lower part of the case and cant get rid quick enough.. I have the cpu fan set so it speeds up as the temp increases.

Yeah the front panel needs some fancy holes in the side like on the R3 case, but its got the big gap at the bottom, of the front panel.
 
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varkanoid said:
Yeah cos you've got two hot HDD's in the bottom and one has a bloody SSD strapped to it keeping the heat in on the right HDD.
See my post on previous page you need a fan in the bottom blowing up !
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Im really trying not to have more fans making noise and dust and I have raised up the ssd by a few mm so air can get under it, but I might put that where its suppose to go in the other chamber.
 
Sorted... Just taken it apart and notice the paste was patchy on the gpu, so I didnt apply enough. Plus this time I dismantle the card completely getting rid of all the dust inbetween the heatsink fins.

These are the temps now in burntest, remember it had always been hitting 94c since the case change within 5mins or so(24c room temp)

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the temps playing dirt rally for about 30mins.

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thanks guys for helping me out, I am really happy with the temps now, the gpu temps maybe even better then they were in my factual design r3 case. Been gaming some more for about 45mins this time and the max temps were 72c, so Im well chuffed.

I have used the spread way ever since amd was king with their amd64 cpu's. I know it doesn't really matter if the paste isn't covering the chip fully, but I like to fully cover my chips, thats why I use the spread technique.

Thanks guys
 
Ive run valley benchmark for a hr and I get a max of 91c. Then ran dirt rally about 5 mins later and even though the inside of the case was still pretty warm it still only went to 73c after 10mins of playing

24c room temp

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when gaming the vram stays in the 70s, so Im not that concerned... Its amazing how much harder these benchmarking tools push the gpu. But having games locked to the refresh rate of your screen limits the gpu workload a lot? I never clock my gpu's I leave everything at stock, I wouldn't know where to begin.
 
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Small cases can have great cooling too, the main prob with the W2 case is the front panel, but sometime Im going to replace the front fans, to try to get the best cooling, while still keeping it quiet as possible.

I am all for the small and compact look now as I have gone off big cases look, as to me they stand out too much and looks a tad oldschool because everything is small and compact nowadays. Plus whats the point of a large case if after the build, there's enough room to turn a double decker bus around inside. The w2 case was the smallest I could find that takes a atx motherboard
 
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