Thermal adhesive removal

[blondishasp69]

I have an r9 290x. It has the little tiny heat sinks on the vrms and such. I would like to know if it is possible to get those off without damaging the board. A link to a video or guide would help very much as well.

 

[Shaun o]

Yes you can take them off by, twisting them slightly and pulling up over on them.

But once you pull them off they will loose the ability in most cases to be stuck back on.

Why do you want to remove them in the first place anyway, if the card still works or is not damaged ?
Or are you fitting a new cooler to the R9 290X card with new ram heatsinks and vrm heatsinks.?

 

[blondishasp69]

I want to in the near future.

 

[blondishasp69]

And I don't think it is working. I was getting 94 degrees Celsius while testing it on Kombustor.

 

[Shaun o]

If the R9 290X card you have uses the ATI reference cooler with the single paddle wheel fan design.
The`s versions of the card run hot anyway, much hotter than the after market cooling solutions you see on other branded cards by ASUS, MSI, or GIGABYTE, in the 290X range of cards.

If you want to reduce the heat the gpu reaches look into buying a Icy Gelid cooling solution for a R9 290X card.
Or an Artic Accelero cooler.

They will bring the GPU temps down to 70c for you under a stress test of the gpu.

http://gelidsolutions.com/products/index.php?lid=1&cid=17&id=52

 

[blondishasp69]

I have an Artic Accelero cooler on it...

 

[blondishasp69]

The Hybrid ii. The guy that sold the card didn't include the heat sink for the back of the card though. I am waiting to see if I can get a replacement from Artic.