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    MSI N460GTX Hawk Talon: Fan replacement possible?

    Awesome, thanks again for the info!
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    MSI N460GTX Hawk Talon: Fan replacement possible?

    Thank you for your responses. Indeed the card is out of guarantee. So far I've removed the fan/heatsink assembly from the main gfx board, but I was wandering if it is safe to disassemble the fan/heatsink assembly now. My post here was mainly to check if it is feasible to disassemble and...
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    MSI N460GTX Hawk Talon: Fan replacement possible?

    Hello all, a friend had bought the gfx mentioned in the subject (linkie: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127534). Unfortunately, the 2nd fan seems to be out of business. Tried rotating it with a pencil but no good. As soon as the gfx starts to pump some power, it...
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    Intermittent artifacts on XFX 5870 XXX

    Thank you all for your informative replies! The fan of my card is on the far side, away from the bracket, so I guess this is a reference design (albeit stock-overclocked). Will try to simply open it and check if screws are loose somewhere.
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    Intermittent artifacts on XFX 5870 XXX

    My apologies for asking the obvious here, but how is this done? I can clean a CPU and reapply thermal paste on it, but how does one fine the vrm chips and what kind/brand of thermal paste should be applied on them? EDIT: I hope that I'll find the VRM from some photos, but I just noticed you are...
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    Intermittent artifacts on XFX 5870 XXX

    Sorry for not replying back, but it was only yesterday I was able to run some tests here. First, I just can not reproduce the artifacts. The weather here made a huge turn towards lower temperatures. As a result, instead of idling at 42-44 degrees, now the card idles at around 36-37. It...
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    Intermittent artifacts on XFX 5870 XXX

    Temperatures were read with MSI afterburner running in the background. There's an afterburner helper application that overlays FPS, temperatures, fan speeds etc on top of the graphics application running, that's the one I used. Max temperatures were found by inspecting the peaks of the collected...
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    Intermittent artifacts on XFX 5870 XXX

    Hello all, newcomer here as this is the first post in your forum. A year ago a bought some used computer components. One of them, a XFX 5870 XXX got its way to my son's rig (Asus P35KC, Q9450, 4Gb RAM, 1TB hdd, a 2-year Corsair 550W PSU, nothing fancy all in all). I did have some issues with...
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