Can't insert HD5750 Silent on Asus P7P55D + Thermalright HR2

silentgeek · Post by **silentgeek** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:10 am

Board,

I am running into a problem concerning a build based on the Asus P7P55D, the Club 3D Radeon HD5750 and the Thermalright HR-02.

I can not insert the Radeon card on the mobo as there are components on the card touching the side of the Thermalright HR-02.

The components I am referring to can be seen on this picture (this ain't my build) :

They are located on the side of the card facing the heat sink. They are orange and there are 3 or 4 of those.

First question would be, what are those ? are they heat sinks ?

Second question is, is it ok to remove those and how to do so without harming the card.

If those are heat sinks, I'd definitely try to remove them as I'm supposed to have great airflow with the fortress ft-02.

Also, I tried to plug the card on the second available slot but its reduced speed is noticeable on full hd content.

Cheers!

silentgeek · Post by **silentgeek** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:25 am

Here is a better picture of those 4 orange components :

hybry · Post by **hybry** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:16 am

I believe those are memory heatsinks, but do not qoute me on this

datapappan · Post by **datapappan** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:49 am

Seems like the second PCIe-16 slot only runs @4x speed (?).

Don't know if the heatsinks comes off w/o harming the board, sorry. Could you snip off some of the heatsink plates?

/d

silentgeek · Post by **silentgeek** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:14 am

Yes the second PCIe 2.0 is x4, the first one is x16.

I definitely see a difference when playing full hd content.