First post, by NTG2001
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I have a Radeon 9800 Pro All in Wonder that still has the stock heatsink with a fan that still seems to run okay. I've repasted the card, but I'm still worried that the card might die since 9700/9800s are known to drop like flies.
I have one of those cheap Chinese eBay coolers, but I'm not sure if I want to put it on. The surface where the cooler contacts the die isn't the smoothest; I'm sure the paste would fill it in fine enough, but it still concerns me a little. I'll also have to cut off the extraneous mounting holes as those will most definitely interfere with the TV tuner. I'm also not against the idea of modding a CPU cooler onto it, but with the TV tuner being so close to one of the mounting holes it may be pretty tricky.
I know that removing the shim is probably going to be necessary for upgrading the heatsink, so I'm prepared for that, and I already plan on adding RAM heatsinks regardless if I upgrade the GPU heatsink or not. Any suggestions on what direction I should go?
(Camera didn't really capture the heatsink very well, this was the best view I could get of it)