Artic Silver 5 == Voiding my warranty?

[redgarl]

Well, I got heat problem. I would like to apply AS5 to lower my graphic cards temperature, but would it void my warranty?

I got 2 Asus 4850 TOP... they are by far one of the worst product I could have purchased.

 

[RazberyBandit]

So, ASUS is going to replace them with what, 2 more of the same design?

 

[redgarl]

So, ASUS is going to replace them with what, 2 more of the same design?

Well, even if I RMA them, I will get the exact same thing. I am pretty much screwed >:/

Anyway, they are working with my additional fan, it solved the problem but I took a good day to figure out what I could do. Still, it's frustrating to buy something and having to tweak it down to make it work properly.

 

[redgarl]

The problem with these cards is they don't exhaust hot air out of the case, so when two are close together you have a little fan-forced oven cooking away.

Well, it's been 7 years that I buy computer hardware and I was not aware of this eventuality. A lot of peoples were also fooled... even Asus engineers themselves 😛

Anyway, I will be able to sell them easily to peoples willing to put them for single card setup. I will just inform them that putting them in crossfire is a bad idea without a big case and proper cooling alternative.

I learned something there, but it seems I always figure problems the hard way :/