how to remove plastic cover off ATI 6900 for cleaning

[seaplusplus]

Hey I have an AMD 6900 videocard and its pretty clogged full of dust and I was wondering how I can take the plastic cover off because it's full of dust and compressed air won't solve this problem. I'm looking at the card and don't see a way of taking the cover off of it. The screws that seem to hold the cover onto the card are inaccessible.

 

[speedx77x]

Have you tried the four screws on the back?
http://imgur.com/3XefYGQ

 

[seaplusplus]

are those screws actually for the cover or for something else?

 

[voyagerfan99]

Just take the entire heatsink off and blow it out.

 

[seaplusplus]

which involves taking the plastic cover off first...

 

[Okedokey]

which involves taking the plastic cover off first...

No, the four screws will remove the whole heat sink. From there use a can of compressed air to blow out the dust from the bottom (PCB side) of the cooler. Use isopropyl alcohol to clean the GPU and heatsink and replace new thermal past. Replace cooler and screws and power connector.

 

[seaplusplus]

how am I supposed to do anything you just said without removing the plastic cover first.

 

[voyagerfan99]

how am I supposed to do anything you just said without removing the plastic cover first.

You don't need to! You flip the GPU over and remove the screws on the back of the card to remove the heatsink!

 

[seaplusplus]

the plastic cover with the fans over top of the heatsink would prevent me from actually taking the heatsink out at all.

 

[johnb35]

Doesn't the plastic cover come out with the heatsink? Aren't there plastic clips on the bottom that you just release to pull cover off?

 

[seaplusplus]

I initially looekd for some sort of quick release system after realizing there were no screws but didn't notice anything that seems like it would work.

 

[Okedokey]

You won't need to remove the plastic shroud to remove the heatsibk.

 

[Okedokey]

Dude, it'll work something similar to this....

 

[seaplusplus]

there we go, so the heatsink and the shroud are attached together, that makes more sense.

 

[voyagerfan99]

there we go, so the heatsink and the shroud are attached together, that makes more sense.

Yes that's what we've been trying to tell you.

 

[Okedokey]

Yes that's what we've been trying to tell you.

Yep since post 2, and every GPU heatsink ever.....

 

[seaplusplus]

well clearly based on the fact that i was asking it means i didnt know it worked that way, and you could have just explained that it worked that way in your first post. rather than just telling me what to do instead of explaining how it works. i clearly didnt know that the heatsink was part of the shroud.