Recent content by sgegmund

A synonym to "awesome looking cooler" is "horrible noise making cooler at any speed able to cool anything as a cooler is supposed to cool isn't it ?" :wtf:

Yes, as mentionned above, it is not a reference layout. I had to use a cutting tool to put heatsinks (those made for VRMs on reference cards) on all required components :) and I also had to use the stock VRM (or in this case MOSFET) heatsink. I removed the thermal band, and applied mx-2 on the...

First of all, thank you all for your answers. As suggested, I went for a reinstallation of the main heatsink. 1st try : complete cleaning (asaka cleaning x 2), reapplying AC-MX2 evenly, resetting the heatsink. No dice, GPU-Z temps even raised to almost 70°C idle. 2nd try : instead of...

Hello, I have a Sapphire HD4870 (the latest one, with the black fan case and the fan in the middle, a non-reference layout), and I had several problems with it unmodified (750/900 GPU/MEM stock): 1. It worked ok with stock values and stock cooler, even if a VPU recover kicked in sometimes. As...

Thank you very much, I thought these would be the places to put them on, so I did it yesterday. I had to use my dremmel (cutting tool) to shape the heatsinks for the upper-right part on the picture. As I wasn't sure, I also put one heatsink on the bottom-right ones :rolleyes: My Accelero Twin...

Hi there, I just got an accelero twin turbo aftermarket cooler for my Sapphire HD4870 512Mb (non-reference layout). Here's the card layout : SAPPHIRE HD4870 4 VRMs heatsinks are included but as I'm not a specialist, I'm not really sure where to put them exactly (the VRM heatsinks can be...

I don't know about doing it with RivaTuner, but you can use Radeon BIOS Editor to increase overdrive limits (see tutorial).

Hey there, I have a Sapphire HD4870 512M (black latest model), and it goes from stock 750/900 to 780/950 with stock cooler (VRM are far too hot though). I'm using CCC and RBE (mainly modified my stock BIOS fan activation curb, didn't change voltages yet). I'm waiting for an arctic cooling...