GFX Card Question, a strange one

[Fordman]

Question for somebody who must know :) When you look on a GFX card, inbetween the memory chips, there is tiny, sliver like things, sorry. Can anybody tell me what they are.

I am currently talking to BFG about putting there mem sinks on there BFG 5500 gfx card, but if I put them on, then they touch these tiny little silver things, and they don;t know what i am talking about.

Thanks

Fordie

[pb32000]

Most likely resistors and capacitors. If they look like what I've circled in the picture then R means resistor and C means capacitor, ie R393 or C98.

Probably best not to tuch metal across them, but you can insualate them with a small piece of electrical tape if you need. Just placed over them.

[Fordman]

thanks for you reply. When I sent them the same picture ( off Google Images :) ) they replied

"This will invalidate your warranty " :)

So guess I won't be adding BFG Mem Sinks to a BFG GFX Card, hmm, nice compatability issue there me thinks :really:

[the_angry_angel]

In my experience any modifications, in terms of cooling to a graphics card will invalidate your warrenty unfortunately :(

You get bullshit statements like "this cooler was optimised for this specific card" - which is bollocks because as soon as I put an artic cooling on mine it went from the high 70's to the mid 30-45's :x (misc.php?do=getsmilies&wysiwyg=1&forumid=0#)