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I live in the night by the moon light, pale and white. I walk alone among the shadows, upon the moor, never wishing to see the morning light. As the night's warm embrace comforts me along my way, in it's silence I find solace that men of the day can only dream of.
-Adam

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sapphire X1950Pro Review and Thermal grease changing guide

Here we go the my personal review of the X1950pro.
Just to let you Know I have in no way been paid or compensated for this review so it should be unbiased
First the specs
Core Clock 580Mhz
Memory Clock 702Mhz
For Further Specs from Sapphire
ATI RADEON™ X1950 PRO
The Sapphire's product page for the X1950Pro, Sapphire's Homepage.
Some picture's of the card from Sapphire's site.


any way moving on
The System specs for the test system
Thermaltake Soprano case
Abit NF-M2 nview mobo
1GB single stick DDR 800 @ DDR 900
Anthlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.7Ghz
550 watt cool max psu
500GB samsung spinpoint sata 3.0 drive
Test of choice 3d mark 06
test conditions
room temp 27 C
case temp 29 C
Driver by omegadrivers.net
bone stock idle temp 100% fan 46C
bone stock 100% Load temp 100% fan 70C! wow hot
3D mark 06 free edition score 4967
now for some over clocking
stable oc 634.5MHZ core 729.MHZ ram
I would say that this not a bad OC for a card with stock cooling 50Mhz on the core an 27Mhz on the ram and the Idle and load temps only rose 2C, but we also only got a 200 point increase in 3d mark not huge but better than nothing considering Ocing is free.
3d mark 06 free edition score 5142
Oc Idle 48C
Oc Load 72C
I would say the overall performance is not to bad for a $150 graphics card it beats out handily the newer and similarly price 2600 and 8600 series cards.
Now to change the thermal grease in hopes of decreasing the core temp and increasing the overclock. First we have to remove stock heatsink the card should now look something like this.








Now sapphire's thermal grease application looks pretty good so I am not expecting stellar results from changing thermal grease time but it is worth just to tinker with the card. Anyway we need to use something to remove the old thermal paste alcohol works well but as I go into to shock when I come into contact with it I will be using arctic silver's grease removing compound pictured below because it is less toxic to me.
After using this your core and heatsink should look something like this.
You will also notice how thick thermal pads are for the ram they aren't doing much but you should leave them in place. Because they are a least providing some heat conduction from the ram to heatsink. You now need to inoculate your heatsink by applying some thermal grease to it with soft link free cloth, for thermal grease I recommend Artic Ceramique or later products from arctic silver. A small amount should be rubbed into where the core will contact the heatsink, you will then need to wipe off the excess compound you heatsink should have slightly hazy look to it. You will now need to apply thermal grease to the core of your graphics card, I recommend using an old plastic ID or a razor blade. Your core should only need a pea sized amount less of Thermal interface material. You will need to spread the thermal interface material in a smooth even layer across the glassy part of the core. One you have done your core should look something like this.
Now you need to reinstall your stock heatsink, once you have reinstalled you stock heatsink, and put your graphics card back in your computer. You will need to boot up and check your temps. they should be the same if not better if they are higher by significant amount 5C or more make sure that you correctly reinstalled your heatsink. In my case when I put my card back I did not notice any change in the Idle and load temps what so ever, but I expected as the oem thermal grease on the card was done pretty well. I am hoping for a temp decrease though as my new thermal grease application progress through its burn in period. to any one who is thinking about doing this it is always worth if for nothing else than to tinker with something.

Here we go

Okay well I am working getting blog ranked in digg. I will posting a review on my sapphire x1950pro later, then do some calculus home work and perhaps make a cheese cake with picturey goodness

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