Quote Originally Posted by gabe View Post
great! thanks. that'll put this to bed once and for all.
Ok so I removed the sink - kept the 50mm on there, Furmark ran ok. Removed the little 50mm fan grabbed a med speed yate loon, screwed on a fan grill and put this over the ass end of the card. Ran this - the VRM temps were a few deg lower than the 50mm was keeping it. Looks like those little 3 on the bottom are really the culiprits but they need alot of air. Without air the heatsinks get about 150 deg F - as per my handheld thermal gauge. They were burning my fingers and I couldnt hold it on there long. Alot of air is absolutely necessary - a little wont cut it. Also, the ram gets damn hot too during furmark.