Oscar Meyer
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2009
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- 326
yeah, I really hate these tiny little torx screws they use to hold these video cards together. I bought an EVGA backplate to put on my 680. The instructions say that four of the screws you need to remove are torx t6. Well, I have an unbranded reference gtx 680 i got off of Ebay. ALL of my screws are torx t6. Only the four screws that hold the heatsink in place are phillips head. These four are the ones that have the little tension spring. Every other screw on the back of the card is a torx6. And they are way overtorqued, or they just plain suck cause I stripped 3 of them. And the rest were a real pain to get out as well. I could feel the head stripping as I unscrewed them. But these last 3 screws are really stripped at the head. So anyone have any suggestions how to remove them? Is the only way to drill them out? I would hate the get tiny metal shavings everywhere, but if that is the only solution I guess it will have to do. Why can't they just use regular phillips head screws.....