First post, by Cypher321
I've recently had the good fortune of acquiring a working Radeon 9800 XT at a reasonable price. I did some research on that era of cards and from what I can tell the card tends to run hot and there is some shim issue (at least for the 9700's). In the spirit of being proactive to keep this card in working order, I wanted to see if anyone had thoughts on if this card should have the shim removed and if the fan should be switched out as a matter of course. It kinda kills me to replace that sweet Sapphire heatsink/fan but I'd rather have an uglier working GPU over a pretty looking dead one! On top of that, if there's any other idiosyncrasies for these cards, I'd love to hear them.