Quote from: ssateneth on June 15, 2013, 09:47:21 AM

Quote from: crazyates on June 15, 2013, 04:25:01 AM

Quote from: ssateneth on June 15, 2013, 03:44:17 AM

1mm pads on the square silver chip between the two gpu cores (some sort of pci-e splitter?) and the long "CPLA-3-50" chip and small boxy chip up on top of the card. The VRM's and RAM use 0.5 mm thermal pads.

also i recommend the fujipoly pads too.

Ya, but what do you know about 5970 thermal pads?

Considering thats MY thread and I personally checked it for myself and own 12 5970's, I know enough to know what I'm talking about.

I followed this guide myself and it was brilliant. The previous owner of my 5970 had removed the heatsink to replace the fan, and didn't re-pad. It was a total mess. Shredded/missing pads. Bad job on the thermal compound on the GPUs.... nasty. The card was hot and unstable which led me down this path to begin with.

I used the 1 and 0.5 mm Fujipoly pads from frozencpu on all the various points and just ic diamond on the gpus. Been running the card at a tiny little OC 735/1100 with temps at 70ºC for weeks now.