Well guys, I gotta believe Cathar, specially since he seems to be talking from experience rather than "theory" and I've never know him to BS yet. Also I recently got a Zalman cooler for my 9500 and was wondering how it doesn't stifle and cook the ram chips, Cathar's comments shed some light on this too.
Speaking of my 9500, I'm sad to say I think I screwed it up while installing the zalman. While I had the hsf off, I tried to remover the spacer on the gpu. It looked like it was epoxied on or something as I could see a slight bead of it around the inner edge of the spacer. Without thinking, I ran my razor knife along that edge trying to get the thing loose. I never did get it off, but when I put everything back together, I get strange artifacts in 2D and really strange 3D. I'm pretty sure I knicked a trace 8( I'm not 100% sure I borked it, it's possible the solvent I used before putting on my thermal compound washed away a bit of my defogger mod and I now have a conflicting set of bios/harware, but I have a bad feeling about it. The main reason I mention this is to caution bob when he goes to install his cooling on the 9700. Bob if I were you I'd try and get the bottom of cold plate milled so it can sit down inside of the spacer and contact the gpu fully. Any mucking around trying to get that thing off might result in a $300 oops compared to my $150 one. Good luck and be sure and post results.
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