HD 7970 heat sink/fan
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#1 HD 7970 heat sink/fan
I have a Sapphire HD 7970 with a bad fan. Is it worth going through the paces of registering the GPU at their support website and seeing what I can get a replacement cooler for or is it so far out of production, they'll have nothing reasonable. Should I just buy an ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme IV for $65?
#2 Re: HD 7970 heat sink/fan
Not sure and I guess also depends on whether you bought it new or second hand. If new it will be covered by a manufacturers guarantee. I have seen on other forums guys RM'ing cards with no problem. As an alternative you could also buy a non functional card on ebay and change out the fan or see if you can just buy a fan to replace. I would imagine they are a standard size of fan ?
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#3 Re: HD 7970 heat sink/fan
I ordered replacement fans instead. $25, they better be great. Didn't really want to mess with removing the heat sink either. Hopefully the fan replacement doesn't require that.
#4 Re: HD 7970 heat sink/fan
If it does then get some decent thermal paste like MX 4 or similar. Brake cleaner is also awesome for cleaning chips
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#5 Re: HD 7970 heat sink/fan
The new fans did the job. Runs nice and cool now. Bring on the next AMD GPU challenge
#6 Re: HD 7970 heat sink/fan
Good to hear. Fans should last the lifetime of the card now. Still trying to figure out if my gigabyte 7970 is bad or not.
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