I have a vga cooler for a 5870. Can i put heatsinks/heatsink cement onto these circled?inoticed the 5870 stock cooler has thermal pads where these sit.
I have a vga cooler for a 5870. Can i put heatsinks/heatsink cement onto these circled?
My System
Core i7 970 @ 4.0Ghz
Asus P6X58D Mobo
6GB DDR3 Corsair 1600 Memory
1000watt Corsair PSU
Windows 7 64bit
EVGA GTX 670 SC 4GB
no
the cylindrical objects are capacitors...
the black squares are inductors...
both of them do not need heatsinks..
you need to put heatsinks on the mosfets....the flat aluminumish squares right next to the black squares...
the surface of the mosfets must never touch anything but a thermal pad/adhesive ...
check this gpu out http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...oc-dual-x-3gb/
i would have suggested this gpu over the reference...
I put heat sinks on the mosfets and also the inductors, will the inductors be fine with the heat sinks on them? I only put them on because the stock cooler had a thermal pad on them beforeOriginally Posted by Hondacity
My System
Core i7 970 @ 4.0Ghz
Asus P6X58D Mobo
6GB DDR3 Corsair 1600 Memory
1000watt Corsair PSU
Windows 7 64bit
EVGA GTX 670 SC 4GB
the inductors won't benefit from heatsinks. the stock cooler only had a strip of thermal pad for the mosfets and not the inductors. look at the stock heatsink. there is a hole to clear the inductors.
The skinny pad was on the mosfets and the fat one were on the inductors. I was just worried if the heat sink cement would do any thing to the inductors
My System
Core i7 970 @ 4.0Ghz
Asus P6X58D Mobo
6GB DDR3 Corsair 1600 Memory
1000watt Corsair PSU
Windows 7 64bit
EVGA GTX 670 SC 4GB
that might be the wrong cooler...
1. there is no thermal pad on the memory chip at the bottom...
2. and the square copper is too small.
3. the mosfet thermal pad mounting holes don't line up with the 7970.
Its a 5870 i have not a 7970 the first pic is a7970 but i just needed to know what the black squares were. They are the same onthe 5870
Last edited by Leopold Butters; 04-24-2012 at 08:13 PM.
My System
Core i7 970 @ 4.0Ghz
Asus P6X58D Mobo
6GB DDR3 Corsair 1600 Memory
1000watt Corsair PSU
Windows 7 64bit
EVGA GTX 670 SC 4GB
the first picture you posted is a 7970,
I a 7970 and i'm telling you, the inductors aren't heatsinked.
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