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I was doing some maintenance a couple days a go, and decided to open up the 4870x2 to clean out whatever 1+ year old dust it had inside. Anyway, being a dimwit, I unscrewed the cooler and the PCB just dropped on the floor. :shadedshu (Thankfully it was intact)

This in turn ripped all the heatpads though. So I decided to mix some AS5 with the remains. Put AS5 on the cores too. After cleaning the dust from the copper heatsinks booted up, tested and found it to be 20C cooler than before. :rockout:

KieX top tip: Dismantle your cards on a table!
 

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+1 to the table idea haha

I didn't notice much of a drop when I changed my thermal grease to AS5 however it didn't idle that hot before... 50 C. Idles around 47 C now, but I'm also only running the fan at 35%... Now if I could just get my VRAM temps down :(



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I was doing some maintenance a couple days a go, and decided to open up the 4870x2 to clean out whatever 1+ year old dust it had inside. Anyway, being a dimwit, I unscrewed the cooler and the PCB just dropped on the floor. :shadedshu (Thankfully it was intact)

This in turn ripped all the heatpads though. So I decided to mix some AS5 with the remains. Put AS5 on the cores too. After cleaning the dust from the copper heatsinks booted up, tested and found it to be 20C cooler than before. :rockout:

KieX top tip: Dismantle your cards on a table!

As a previous 4870X2 owner I'm glad to read that your card survived! :toast:

I kinda miss my X2... I'm curious how would it look in new case. :D
 
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that thing will ALWAYS look raw and powerfull no matter how much time that goes by imo
 
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^^ just like he said. Raw, powerful and BRUTAL.

Man, it was my first top notch graphic card. I won't forget that feeling.... An upgrade from s754 Sempron, 1gb RAM and Radeon 9800 to Q9550, 4GB OCZ RAM and especially the 4870X2 was something incredible. :)
 
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late to the game but

Grnfinger |Diamond| 800MHz / 975MHz





 
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Has anyone tried underclocking/undervolting theirs? I would really love to bring down the Idle power consumption.
 

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Has anyone tried underclocking/undervolting theirs? I would really love to bring down the Idle power consumption.

I'd like to bring down the VRAM temps haha. I'd have to think they are just pumping too much voltage to them being GDDR5 was relatively new at the time. I'd imagine this would have to be a hardware mod and not achievable in the BIOS.



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That's right. It was the issue with GDDR5 back then. Now they know how to control their voltages without any glitches on the screen in the moment of clock/voltage change (AFAIK that was the main reason ATI 4xxx based on GDDR5 weren't clocking down the memory) and we can see the results in HD5xxx series.
 

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Has anyone successfully undervoltaged their GDDR5 cards? I'd like to do so to get my VRAM temps down...



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Hi, just wanted to say welcome to this thread and also to TPU :)

Nice system you have there :toast:
 
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Here is my baby!


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nice rig dude:toast:
 
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it is still one brutal card imo, and very hot :laugh:
 
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mine ran at almost 100c in load an 65-75 in idle :laugh:
 
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yeah the card is so dam hot, the first day i was like dam surely that thing is gona burn up! after playing battlefield BC2 the other day the heatsink at the side of the card would have burned me if i would have left my hand on there!

Hows the 2 5770's going?
 
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mine idle between 40-60c. I need to get a new 200mm fan for my side panel
 
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