VGA Silencer

[tunaman]

I just got a VGA Silencer in the mail from SVC. The surface that mounts up to the core on the video card has just about what I would call a mirror surface except for some deep scratches. Would these scratches affect performance enough to warrant a return? There are about 8 scratches each about 1-3 mm long in various places around the surface.

Hmmm... darn it, I thought I was in Cooling. Please move mod, as that would probably be the best place for this question. Thanks!

 

[Vertigo Acid]

Are the scratches in the area where the core will be touching? If so i'd ship it back, but otherwise not.

 

[Orpheus]

You could choose to lap the surface with some lower grit sandpaper, then progressing onto some finer grade, you'd be trying to obtain a mirror like finish to get the best contact between the GPU and the heatsink surface.