kelston

Before the Zalman and TT came out and before I found out about the OCSystems and VGA Silencer solutions, I bought and thermal glued on some Tweakmonster ramsinks on to my 9700 Pro.

Unforunately, i'm having some issues with various games crashing which I cannot seem to find a solution for. Details here:

9700 Pro Crashing - Full System Lock

I just went about and ripped off the shim and reapplied the stock heatsink using ShinEtsu G-751, supposed to be one of the best pastes. However, it seems not to have solved the issue as I just crashed again. After the crash, I pulled off the side of the case and touched the back of the 9700 to find that it failed the 3-second finger heat test (was unable to keep my finger on it for longer than 2 seconds actually).

So I am curious as to what cooling solutions there are that will actually fit on to the 9700 Pro that cools it enough to not cause this ridiculously hot temp on the back of the card. The only one i've found so far is the Vantec IceBerq 4 but I don't know how it would cool the back of the card.

In theory, I wish I had the ability to actually modify a good CPU heatsink to slap on but I don't have the knowledge, skill, or equipment to do so. Though i'd be willing to pay someone to do it if they could provide a solution that's better than the IceBerq 4 or whatever other solutions exist that would work for my situation.