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Here's a quick look at how I insulate vid cards, the subject is a 7970

Items required
1. 7970 ........ :laughing:
2. Fatdaddy pot
3. Sham WOW orange and blue flavors
4. Clear nail polish ..... yes it is AMD
5. armaflex tape
6. Blue painters tape
7. .5mm shim (Can be simulted by laying pennies on the rail road tracks........ :blink:)
8. Thermal paste of choice. OCZ clear cap Freeze is used here

1. Remove stock heat sink ...... Ahhh yea :blush:
2. Nail polish the open leads in the socket
3. Apply thin layer of eraser to front of card, I typically go to the outside edge of the mem chips
4. leave the bottom to last and install PICe protection strip with eraser
5. Install rear PCIe protection strip with blue painters tape
6. Apply tape to rear of card
7. from the back poke small screww driver though mounting holes (Important step ..LOL)
8. Apply armaflex layer to rear of card and poke holes through that
9. Make sure all surfaces are clean on the pot chip and shim (After cleaning with alcohol I rub everything down with a coffee filter, learned this of and old friend DEMELO for NBOC great guy BTW)
10. apply paste and set shim, apply paste and set pot, aplly light even presur to rear of card
11. take apart and confirm mount reinsert pot again appling even pressure on rear of car
12. Tighten down pot
13. If the eraser was done to the proper thickness your pot will seal against the card above the GPU and in essence help prevent condinsation as well as act as a blanket keeping the board and mem chip a bit warmer
14. Cut orange Sham Wow to fit just inside pot posts
15. Cut Sham Wow to cover posts
16. Apply armaflex over both peices (This reduces condinsation on the rear of the card)

Good luck and have fun ............... :thumbsup:

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Nice photo gallery and very neatly assembled Witcher! :)

Q: Is there anything between the painters blue tape and the pcb? Just nail polish? Any problems with the adhesive conducting?

Thanks

I just put nail polish in the socket area, arond the chip it self and the four slots on the retainer, the back I just put the tape right on it. no conduction going on thus far :)

Looks great Brian. Hoping for big pointage. Good luck bro.:thumbsup:

Very nice :thumbsup:

I think I need you to insulate my cards looks so pro compared to mine :blush:

Thanks guys, not sure how far this reference card can go ....

But I will know this weekend .......... :thumbsup:

Looking good WD :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Way nice. Wow, glad I dont LN2 GPUs :) I thought the work involved was tweaking the OS/app. LOL