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Quote Originally Posted by SoF View Post
did anybody figured out the "crack bug" yet? After Cebit stummerwinter and me was of the opinion it is not the thermal paste and the cooler itself that makes that sound but the heatspreader and the gpu-core - any thoughts? we could hear something similar on 990X fullpot with the same issues afterwards so it might not be the paste it might be the hs and die...
Combination containers (CU+ALU) have different shrink/expansion rates between the two materials. Under extreme cooling those differences are greatly magnified, that crack or snap is friction between the two parts of the container. If you had a sound of that magnitude originating from the GPU core/IHS, you wouldn't have a working card anymore.