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Removing Heatsinks etc

boonman

boonman

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Hi everyone this is my first post on the forum although I've learnt loads from reading your posts over the last few months whilst making my new system.

I need some advise....
Has anyone tried to take the heatsink etc off an MSI silent 7950gt (the one with the heatpipe cooling) so that water cooling could be installed. I know its a long shot really as I guess they arn't very popular cards. But does anyone know if you are generally able to remove this type of cooling system from VGA cards.

Found that the passive cooling just isn't up to it when it comes to overclocking. I'm getting temps of 80C+ when under load at stock speeds (550/1400) for long periods.
this is too much right??

Any help would be really appreciated. :D
 
It should use the standard mount, so it should just be a case of removing all the screws on the rear of the card and maybe one on the backplate if it has one to release the cooler.

Jokester
 
Pretty much like Jokester says, just remove pretty much every screw from the rear of the card and perhaps some on the front side, and it should all just come apart. :) You may need to pull slightly to get it to come away from the GPU as the paste may have become hard.
 
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