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You screwed up big time with the thermal paste.
It's *only* supposed to go between the GPU chip and the heatsink to allow maximal heat transfer to the copper pipes.
Also the Accelero Xtreme is much more powerful than the stock 5970 fan, I'd know because I run 3 of those cards.
Chances are you applied too much paste and saw high temperatures to begin with.
It's *only* supposed to go between the GPU chip and the heatsink to allow maximal heat transfer to the copper pipes.
Also the Accelero Xtreme is much more powerful than the stock 5970 fan, I'd know because I run 3 of those cards.
Chances are you applied too much paste and saw high temperatures to begin with.
Yes, I did put thermal paste on all the right places on the 5970, on both the top and the bottom of the card.
There's only one 'right place' for thermal paste, and the bottom of the card isn't it. If you used a conductive thermal paste like Arctic Silver 5, you've probably shorted something out on the bottom of the card..
The only place for thermal paste is a very thin layer between the heatsink and the large GPU chip - nowhere else
If you don't have special cleaning solution, a lint-free cloth and 90%+ isopropyl alcohol works well to clean it off.
[edit] of course, 5970 has two GPUs, so a thin layer between each GPU chip and the heatsink
If the fan goes 100% and down down (but not stopped) the GPU if passing POST, so not completely dead. Are there any red lights on top?
I took the Accelero cooler off my 5970 because it's a crappy cooler which made the VRMs overheat, so I then put the stock cooler back on. Now the motherboard makes the "No VGA detected" series of beeps, so I put a 5850 in and connected the monitor to that so I could boot into Windows with the 5970 in the middle PCIE slot and the device manager won't detect the 5970. Yes, I did put thermal paste on all the right places on the 5970, on both the top and the bottom of the card. How could the card have died just by changing the cooler?
The 5970 fan still spins up loudly for about 2 seconds just after I do a cold boot, before going quiet again.
The 5970 fan still spins up loudly for about 2 seconds just after I do a cold boot, before going quiet again.
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