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post #5781 of 6361
My card crashes in games when I hit 60 degrees on the core which is why I did the Kuhler mod.
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post #5782 of 6361
Question on the Saphire 3850 cooling, And possible Benefit of removing the cover,

I removed the plastic cover to replace the thermal compound with Artic Silver 5.
What it looks like to me is if I leave the plastic cover off I will get better cooling but want to ask here.
Or, is the law of physics requiring a fan to be blowing right on top of it.
Or I could just get a cooling block for my RASA RS240 kit I guess.

What say you...........?
  • I have...
  • The fan on the card.
  • A fan on my case door blowing inward right on top of the card.
  • A fan on the floor of the case blowing cool air from under the case that would hit the rear 1/3 portion of the card.
  • A set of fans above it in a Liquid cooling XSPC RASA RS240 kit pulling out of the case above it.
  • A set of front fans pushing over my hard drives towards the card.
  • A fan pushing out of the case at the top rear.
  • A fan exhausting behind the MoBo.
    
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post #5783 of 6361
the cover is pretty useless imo
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post #5784 of 6361
Case helps blow airflow over the VRM's and memory chips. But if you've got sufficient airflow flowing over the card, then you can do without the case.
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post #5785 of 6361
I wanted a third monitor/tv... 6850 don't support triple screen without an expensive active dp adapter...

Suck...
    
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post #5786 of 6361
this adapter will work and it's not too $$$.
post #5787 of 6361
Yeah, I'm in canada.
Found an xfx one, not in the validate list from amd... LINK

But than, when I will change video card, I will need to buy a miniDP to DP
Edited by spikexp - 7/1/12 at 6:30am
    
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A single 6850 is not going to be enough for eyefinity.even with crossfire you have to use medium settings on most games to stay above 60fps.
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No eyefinity, one of my screen is a 20 inch 1680x1050.
I want a monitor to replace my old 21 inch cathodic TV, will use it as extend my desktop at the same time.
    
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Quote:
Originally Posted by smoke420 View Post

A single 6850 is not going to be enough for eyefinity.even with crossfire you have to use medium settings on most games to stay above 60fps.

 

It all depends on the games mate, I play any Source game at 100+ FPS no problem on my 6870.

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