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Processor | Ryzen 5800x |
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Motherboard | Asrock B550m Steel Legend |
Memory | 32GB Kingston Server Premier ECC DDR4 |
Video Card(s) | Radeon RX Vega 64 |
Power Supply | Super Flower Leadex III Gold 850W |
Keyboard | IBM Model M |
Hello everyone, long time listener, first time caller here
I was given an RX Vega 64 blower edition recently that was overheating constantly but would otherwise work fine if severely clocked down (as in, I can run it fine at -%50 power settings). I decided to take it apart to clean it out and do a re-paste job on the GPU die, but taking it apart I've found that the heatsink has separated from the copper vapor chamber! It looks like part of the vapor chamber has bubbled out and pushed up on the aluminum heatsink fins making a really poor contact (and therefore hurting the cards ability to cool down).
Has anyone here seen this issue before? Any tips on how you fixed it, or where I could source a replacement heatsink/vapor chamber assembly? The Vega's don't seem to have that much aftermarket cooler support, at least not anything that doesn't cost more than the entire card is worth at this point.
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Has anyone here seen this issue before? Any tips on how you fixed it, or where I could source a replacement heatsink/vapor chamber assembly? The Vega's don't seem to have that much aftermarket cooler support, at least not anything that doesn't cost more than the entire card is worth at this point.