[-The{}Jack{}Fish-]

So I took the picture of the screws and here it is.

That's correct, the one with springs on it. I'm not sure if the screws are fine since its deep into midnight therefore I can't take a picture of it. Also there have been already washers when me and my friend opened both cards. But for me it has something to do with pressure tho.

Soooo apparently, some sapphire cards have some sort of mounting pressure problems. This means that after a certain thermal paste replacement ( two or three times ? Mines 3 and my friend's two ) the card mounting pressure is screwed up and it made the card overheat increasingly, eventually death by overheat arrives. I'd love to have a clear insight about what went wrong but I don't have a lot of sapphire cards at disposal. By far here are some of the examples that I have discovered. Exhibit A ( My RX560 ) : I was having a quite good temp ( high 50 to mid 60 ) with the stock stuff. After my decision to replace the thermal paste the card hit 72 instantly and slowly rose to oblivion. My method of application: X, star, youtuber pattern, pea, line basically anything imaginable and the amount vary from too much to just enough. I've spent total of 20$ in thermal paste which is mx4, kryonaut. Exhibit B ( my friends RX570 ) : My friend was having a decent 74°C with same story and his card reached high 80s while he had spent the same amount of thermal paste as I did and he used the same mx4 and kryonaut and the only diffrence is he applied enough to cover the die which is quite excessive as to people standard. Tl;dr: seems like some sapphire polaris cards have issue with temperature after thermal paste replacement and it seems like it has something to do with pressure

thanks alot people :))))

thanks but you could please give me a specific card ?

well thanks for your advice on amd cards (my brother sux) and i found that this forum is helpful .

well i buy cards based on feature and performance i don't care brands

well first, i dont really like their schedule .secondly, i heard that they have such a bit of an issue to their last update. but i still prefer nVidia more :)). well i could get a 95% used Ati hd5830 for 50 bucks

well i don't actually like Amd(ati) cards because their "wierd" update

As the title said, i am a budget gamer who just want to play payday 2(max settings), bf4 and some normal photoshop workloads. Hope you can help me decide those card or get something kinda under 50$ or 100$ thx ☺