Taking off the sink?

[Tony Montana]

how do you take off the heatsink on a 9800pro saphire?

 

[Sanitarium]

Sqeeze the the clips on the bottom with a needle nose or tweesers then push them through and it should come right off. If they used a thermal pad you'll have to heat the sink up with a blow drier.

 

[Tony Montana]

t hat wount damnage the card?

 

[Sanitarium]

If you're careful it won't.

 

[V0ltage]

it dosnt have a thermal pad, it has some silver paste.

 

[Chaballaman]

heatup the hsf before takin it off.
check if it has r360 gpu, apply as2. hope u have new hsf lined up 4 ur card.

 

[Tony Montana]

no i just want to take off the fan because it looks ugly i plan on leaving the card without a heaksink.

 

[Chix4mat]

Are you serious?

 

[DirtyApe]

i really do hope that you are being sarcastic there...

 

[Tony Montana]

nope im not i love seeing and smelling smoke.

 

[twelveparsex]

heatup the hsf before takin it off.
check if it has r360 gpu, apply as2. hope u have new hsf lined up 4 ur card.

why? if its got thermal epoxy on it freezing it works, it makes the epoxy brittle

 

[Chaballaman]

huh?

it would only take few secs to heatup the hsf with hair dryer.