Radeon 5870 Eyefinity 6 with Thermalright Spitfire Cooler Showcase Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so I had said I might be doing a follow-up video on the Spitfire 6 uh
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graphics card cooler from thermal right and here it is so I've actually
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installed the thermal right fan that they've given to me along with it this
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is a 140 mm fan and I just want to I
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just want to demonstrate the ludicrous size of this cooler setup I mean I love
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it it's terrific but uh so this is a Radeon 5850 ifinity 6 Edition so I don't
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think thermal r even knew this yet but it actually fits it's completely 100%
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compatible with this special card right out of the box so let's uh let's go over
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the installation procedure that I used really quickly here it's not nearly as
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complicated as it looked when I was unboxing it I I thought there were all
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these screws and brackets and all this stuff and I was like oh this is pretty
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confusing but actually it's really simple so the first thing I did was I
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installed the vrm cooler so all that was
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was one strip of thermal comp of thermal
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interface material so that's under there and then you just put it up against the
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uh the voltage regulators and you put in two thumb screws with plastic washers
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from the back that's it that simple to install that piece the next piece that I
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installed was all of the RAM coolers so thermalite includes an abundance of RAM
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chip heat sinks so I actually used 12 of
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these so I used all of the regular sized ones but they also included several long
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skinny ones as well as eight or maybe
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get six but it's a few of the ones that are low profile so I installed four low
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profile ones down here and then I have another four over here now something you
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want to make sure you're doing when you're installing any aftermarket cooling on a video card is use isopropyl
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alcohol to clean off all the memory chips before you try to stick these ones
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to it because otherwise you're going to ruin the thermal pads that are included
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on the thermal right ones and I should also mention that the thermal tape that
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they're using is excellent I did not have any difficulties with these falling
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off after I applied them and I have run into that before in the past so the next
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piece that I installed was just the uh this is a hold down plate right here
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that goes over top of the GPU cooler itself now you can install this both
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ways it is symmetrical if you check out my unboxing you can see that both of
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these surfaces are laps flat so you can make it so that when the card is
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installed the cooler either uh Towers up
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and up towards the CPU or it can go down
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towards the other expansion cards and then it actually doubles as a cooler for
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all your expansion cards because you can have the fan blowing down onto all of
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your other expansion cards as well so that's kind of a a neat perk to
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installing this so basically you put the hold down over top you put these little
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thumb screws through and then on the
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back you just put a washer a rubber
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washer a back plate and then one more thumb nut that was it that was the whole
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installation procedure and once it's in stalled it looks just like ridiculously
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massive I love it because it's like the
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size of the video card itself and I oh I wish I had the stock cooler here just
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for a quick comparison but the stock cooler just kind of is you know this
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size and then this thing is like a huge one other benefit actually that I should
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mention is that assuming you're not using an Infinity 6 Edition card and you
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can actually get a single slot P or uh
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if you want were able to get a single slot PCI bracket thermalite has actually
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engineered this cooler so that all of the things that are on the surface of
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the card are only single slot width so if if you got rid of this you could
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actually install some other expansion card right next to your 5870 even though
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with the default cooler it is a dual slot card so thank you for checking out
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my quick video on the installed Spitfire 6 and Radeon ifinity 6 Edition