Heres our victim: A power Color 5850



Heres the back, where i have to remove the screws to seperate the the board from the reference cooler.



all seperated, you can see where the cooler hits the GPU and where the thermal pads are:




Here you can see i need to remove about 8 screws(more on that in a minute), so I can seperate that black metal plate from the rest of the junk, so i can reinstall it.




Heres the GPU all cleaned of its cheap goop. All shiny!


Heres everything separated (and if you notice on the bottom piece, i broke it, 2 screws would not come out, and the plastic actually broke as i was trying to get them out! This cooler better work now! ) Its only a $300 video card, no biggie




heres the back plate, reinstalled.(the part i wasnt sure would work


screws back in!



View from the bottom. As you can see on the right, some of the fins hit the DVI port, I have to cut/bend about 11 of them to get it to fit)


close up of the bottom (so you can see how close it sits to the base)




view from the top, so you can see the clearance for the heat pipes.



finally, installed!!!



itrs running like a champ.