4870 vrm cooling

[Reckless187]

what card is that? i wanted to get that scythe cooler but it came out just after the t-rad got out and i preordered that so it was too late. and no i alrdy tried getting the copper vrm sink off of my 3870 and putting it on my 4870 and the holes don't line up. theres a greater space between the holes on the 4870 probably cause it has more vrms. im gonna put the stock plate on my 4870 once i find a good way to remove the ram sinks i put on there with thermal tape. razor blade + alcohol isn't sounding too friendly.

It's a Sapphire 4870 512MB version. Have you tried heating up the ram sinks slightly with a hairdryer maybe?

The Scythe fitment is a piece of crap in my opinion unless I'm doing something wrong. I used the copper spacer and even then with everything tightened down, the cooler twists really freely. I had to put some extra plastic/foam layers under the rear mounting bracket to get the thing tight. The rear mounting bracket has a hard rubber bung in the centre and this pushes down onto the rear of the card, onto the little chips that are located right behind the main gpu chip. Wish I taken some pic's of it now to explain better. Almost makes me wish I'd gone for the Thermalright T-Rad.