Watercooled my X1950Pro, quick question

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Warhire

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After removing the stock HSF I noticed 2 places that were attached to the heatsink via thermal pads. My question is, will not putting some type of heatsink on those pieces effect my over clock.

Here are the spots in question
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I am not 100% positive but they may have something to do with voltage so it is probable they get hot seeing as how they went and made sure the heatsink covered them. The only thing I can suggest is to go ahead and run the card and check how hot they get, if they get super hot I would maybe buy a little passive heatsink and stick it on there with a piece of thermal pad/tape. But you should be ok just running them without anything as long as you have you some half way decent air flow in your case.
 
Thx for the reply, both get pretty hot so I can under stand why they did it. The top one I can sink with no problem but the bottom one has some type of transistor between them and it's level with the other 2 pieces so I'm not sure how to sink them. I would hate to cover the whole thing only short something out.
 
Warhire said:
Thx for the reply, both get pretty hot so I can under stand why they did it. The top one I can sink with no problem but the bottom one has some type of transistor between them and it's level with the other 2 pieces so I'm not sure how to sink them. I would hate to cover the whole thing only short something out.
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I would just use a little thermal tape or a pad. I doubt they are conductive so you shouldnt have anything to worry about. Maybe do a little looking around to see if you can find out for sure that they are not conductive, but I would be really suprised if they were.
 
wondered the same thing with my x1950 xtx, had it wartercooled with a dd tyee that doesn't cover those points. Thus far no problems, go for it. ;)
 
Thx guys, I have an update. after trying to see what this card will do OC wise I was not impressed. The core did about 600 and the mem just over 700 both on stock volts. So I pulled out the card and made some small heatsinks for those 2 spots. The one on the bottom burned my finger when I touched it. After getting it reinstalled a used ATI tray tools as I did before and the core clock was the same no more than 610 but the mem clock went to 806 before it hung. I definitely think at least one of those things plays a part in the memory.
 
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