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Had my 5850 in my case...noticed a little something hanging off it so gave it a pull...half the goddam sticker on it comes away.

I wont be able to see it, wont be able to notice it but ocd gets the better of me. An hour later knowing how stupid this is I have taken it ALL apart, heatsink, fan, cover, the lot.

Washed the cover down (just the pastic cover) and used my good buddy vodka to get the sticky off...hairdryer to dry it, remounted it all using basic akasa compound and remounted it.

45 minutes later had one of those startups everyone dreads where it seems to take an age longer than it normally does. It works thank the gods though...and temps are at worst what they were before, wouldnt profess an increase. Having said that it is the same now and given that there was a LOT of TIM used by the manufacturer (we are talking all round the sides like no one's busines) and the fact things didnt seem lined up as good as can be, plus the fact the TIM I used has yet to cure, this might have done some good. If it doesent subsequently die on me...

But god what a mission for OCD.

(EDIT- Im not really OCD...just hated that goddam half ripped sticker)
 
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LOL! On a similar note, has anybody else ever decided the keyboard looks a bit manky, removed all keys carefully arranging them as they should be so as not to put any of them back wrong, thoroughly cleaned each key individually with water/detergent, cleaned the case (including the grime in the seams), then reassembled (including regreasing the pivots of the metal bar under the longer keys?

Good few hours, and done it a good few times too. Thoroughly satisfying. Other than that my life is quite OCD free. :)
 
LOL! On a similar note, has anybody else ever decided the keyboard looks a bit manky, removed all keys carefully arranging them as they should be so as not to put any of them back wrong, thoroughly cleaned each key individually with water/detergent, cleaned the case (including the grime in the seams), then reassembled (including regreasing the pivots of the metal bar under the longer keys?

Good few hours, and done it a good few times too. Thoroughly satisfying. Other than that my life is quite OCD free. :)

Been here before lol :)
 
I'm a bit lazier with my keyboard cleaning. I just dump them in hot (just hand hot) water with some washing up liquid and clean them with an only toothbrush.

For putting them back I just use one of my spare ps2 keyboards that I have around for PCs that will not load usb keyboards before windows loads.
 
I'm a bit lazier with my keyboard cleaning. I just dump them in hot (just hand hot) water with some washing up liquid and clean them with an only toothbrush.

For putting them back I just use one of my spare ps2 keyboards that I have around for PCs that will not load usb keyboards before windows loads.

somehoe i dont think my G15 would like that
 
The margins will be too small to give an honest answer or quantify that in degree's I'm not one for really benchmarking enough to be able to give valid results. Let me put it this way, I am sure it hasnt done any harm in terms of thermals.

Since doing it, the shader temp seems proportionally lower than it usually is, it has been consisently 4 degrees lower and was hitting 32 before, a temperature is very, very rarely reaches. MemIO and DisIO are about the same, ran some furmark, maybe one or two lower at idle prob about 3-4 load.

Furmark still brings up about 75 max degrees@850 1150.

I have messed with fan speeds a bit but over time all over my rig; I will get a clear answer as I game some ect. I m pretty sure that whacking some really good TIM, using only a little and mounting it steady and right would benefit so long as you are confident what you are doing and have the right screwdriver.
 
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