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Sapphire 6950 2gb and Thermalright Shaman

post #1 of 8
6/22/11 at 6:25am
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First off, hello all. I'm new to the forum.

I've had my sapphire 6950 2gb for some time now and I recently decided to get rid of the stock cooler and bought a thermalright shaman cooler.
I thought it was a good idea and all up until I started installing the cooler on the card and ran into a fitting problem.




The cooler gets blocked by the high nasty parts under the pipes and doesn't let it lay completely onto the gpu, leaving a couple millimeter gap on the pipe end.

Anybody else have a Sapphire HD 6950 2gb card and found a solution to this? Ideas how I could make it fit somehow without breaking the card or the cooler?

Apparently the cooler fits a lot, if not all 6950 cards but not the sapphire one I have. (according to google search atleast)

I found a few threads on random forums claiming they had got the shaman installed on their sapphire 6950 cards somehow, with no info on how they did it.
I only found 1 thread on a german forum where an user had the same problem as me. I don't speak german though, only saw the pics.


Thanks in advance.


Ps. The pics are from the german forum thread.
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post #2 of 8
6/22/11 at 4:07pm
You might try bending those pipes just a hair that might work...
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6/22/11 at 5:54pm
what if you turn the pipes to the other side?
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post #4 of 8
6/23/11 at 4:58am
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You might try bending those pipes just a hair that might work...
I managed to translate from the german site that he broke the cooler doing that, and with that his card overheated too and broke aswell. Any hints on how and with what to try bending with?

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what if you turn the pipes to the other side?
The way it's on the pics is the only way it'll fit on the card and still be attachable to the mobo. The cooler goes much further over the card from any other side but with the pipes going the way they are.
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post #5 of 8
6/23/11 at 6:03am
Put the cooler against something heavy that does not move. And ever so slightly push the pipes up towards the heatsink fins. I had to do that once on a artic cooling twin turbo and it worked. But like I said I only had to move it like a few millimeters
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post #6 of 8
6/23/11 at 7:30am
i guess they only designed it for the reference?
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post #7 of 8
6/23/11 at 7:36am
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Put the cooler against something heavy that does not move. And ever so slightly push the pipes up towards the heatsink fins. I had to do that once on a artic cooling twin turbo and it worked. But like I said I only had to move it like a few millimeters
I had the same problem with my t-rad 2. Now my t-rad 2 sits on the self. If you do try to bed the tubes atleast get it really hot before doing it. You might even try putting it on the oven and getting it really hot and then try using tools to hold it while you push.
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post #8 of 8
6/25/11 at 4:09am
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It seems difficult to bend without breaking it so I'm not going to even try.
Thanks for the suggestions though.
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