Urgent! C Clips are Impossible to Remove.

How do I do it? There has to be a secret. I've been at it for a straight hour now trying to carefully pry the clips off the screws on my 5870m. I used safety pins, screwdrivers, tweezers, mini scissors. How have other people on this forum done it? Please correct me if I'm wrong but the c-clips are the moon shaped uber-small brackets on the underside of that little bracket the screw goes through on the heatsink right?

 

Yep those are the c clips. All I did to remove them was use a small flat-head screwdriver and push them off the screw. Make sure you have something to catch it because it'll go flying.

 

Get them to this inclined position / or this \ with the screw vertically and push like this "C <----"
They will come off easily.

Hope you understand, sending this from my phone.

 

^this

once the screwdriver head is inserted on the small gap on the clip, just twist it, no need to pull it. The clip should pop out without effort.

edit (and sorry for the OT)... : does anyone know how to get rid of the annoying bar that pop up on the forum?!

 

+1 Who thought that would be a good idea?

 

Concerning the tool bar: scroll down on any NBR page, in the drop down list, located on the left choose vBulletin Default Style. No ads, no bar, this is what I always use since the beginning

Enjoy

 

Katalin, thank you
+1 Rep.

 

Yea, I like the vBulletin Default style, but mostly I use the "NotebookReview Style"

I think maybe I just got used to the color coding. Plus the NEW NBR Style doesn't show size and formatting changes. "NotebookReview Style" and vBulletin Default Style both show formatting/size changes. I'm going to post this in as a poll in the off topic section just out of curiosity.

 

notebookReview Style is better

 

Firefox + Adblockplus is unbeatable

 

if i get a tiny bit of thermal paste on the black part rather than the shiny metal die, is it bad?

 

No, won't hurt a thing. It will likely squeeze out on to that anyway once the heatsink is properly secure.

 

do you want the paste so thin that you can see the amd and made in china through it? Or so it obscures that?

 

Doesn't have to be that thin, I would say enough so you can't see that and all you see is a solid layer

 

Agreed with DR. Want it to be a bit thicker then what you'd use on a CPU.

 

And after that, results will depend on how much you'll tighten the heatsink screws, assuming it already makes proper contact with the GPU and not the metal square that surrounds it instead

 

that darn metal square!!!