today something happened, i used an EK Water Blocks Thermal PAD between the sapphire plate and MemIO instead of Akasa AK-TT12-80 Thermal Adhesive Tape, now it's temp can't raise over 60° under Furmark fullscreen 1680*1050 AAx8 Extreme mode with a 890/1130 overclock... i hate this card dude, i hate ...

Hello, sorry if i'm writing my reply so late, i tried a lot of thermal pads to solve this problem, let's start answering: @FJC and BPD: in GPU-Z GPU#1 is the Core GPU#2 is MEMio GPU#3 is arnyalo VDDC #1,2 and 3 are the VRM "in line" i can say this because Everest shows me the name of the sensor, so ...

Hello! I have a problem with my ATI5850 reference PCB: My Accelero s1 rev2 heatsink +12cm fan and a VRM-R4 heatsink can take all the temps under 55° with no problems. But there is a VRM that no heatskins can cool down, i'm talking about MemIO, the VRM that manage the memories (that's what an intern...

vapor-x gpus are the best if you don't want to change the heatsink.
too bad arctic cooling builds only 5970 with a good cooler

the megahalems is not the best fanless cooler because of its little fin spacing, anyway a really slow fan will be enought to blow away the heat from it.

the gpu can work fanless if you have an intake fan without an hard disk cage between them

Push pins are not bad, there is a youtube video where a case with MB and Orochi falls from ~1,5m the pipes break but the push pins don't even move ^^