so I re-greased the 5970 using the method above. I didn't see jonnyj's post as I did use the 1.0mm pads on the VMRs (chips circled above not the RAM). It all seemed to fit well with the 1.0mm pads (what do I know, it's my first rebuild).
I took a picture half way through and am now thinking I used too much grease because the fan is maintaining 4200RPM to keep >73C on stock clocks, worse than my other two 5970s (~3400RPM). I spread it thin and used the "grain of rice" recommendation I've read here. Am I looking at doing this over again this weekend?
And I did clean up the left GPU, I wasn't *that* sloppy
I took a picture half way through and am now thinking I used too much grease because the fan is maintaining 4200RPM to keep >73C on stock clocks, worse than my other two 5970s (~3400RPM). I spread it thin and used the "grain of rice" recommendation I've read here. Am I looking at doing this over again this weekend?
And I did clean up the left GPU, I wasn't *that* sloppy