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    Installing 4850's in M17

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by DHC, Dec 19, 2009.

  1. DHC

    DHC Notebook Evangelist

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    Should i worry about temps and put a thermal pad on the bottom of the card (between the card and the motherboard), or can it run fine with the stock M17 GPU cooler and some OCZ Freeze?

    Apparantly the 4850's got ram chips on both sides.

    Asking this because some people don't got this, yet i was recommended to do this by the guy i bought the cards from.

    Looking forward to your replies.
     
    DHC, Dec 19, 2009
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  2. zfactor

    zfactor Mastershake

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    dont worry about the underside you dont need stuff there.
     
    zfactor, Dec 19, 2009
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