thernal compubd replacement on GPU. Whats this film for?

[chilicheeseburger]

I'm replacing the thermal compound on a xfx radeon hd5870 and ran across a weird thing. I cleaned the compound off the heat sink and underneath it was a protective film, like the ones you peel off of cooler heatsinks normally. so does this stay on? I took a picture but can't really upload it as I'm on my phone right now..

[thekeemo]

just sounds like bad manufacturing

[chilicheeseburger]

I attached the photo I took.

[gazabi]

If your temps werent super bad with the "film" on I would say to keep it on. Is it removable?

 

Edit: I think you should take it off, it probably was bad manufacturing like 

thekeemo said.

[juretrn]

I attached the photo I took.

Just clean it off. There should be direct contact to copper.

[chilicheeseburger]

If your temps werent super bad with the "film" on I would say to keep it on. Is it removable?

Yes it is. The card kept creating artifacts on screen and crashing the PC dafter a while of gaming... thats why I replace the thernal paste

[gazabi]

I attached the photo I took.

This cooler doesnt have the film.

[Tomatodude95]

I agree with @juretrn, take it off especially if you had bad temps and artifacts.

[chilicheeseburger]

alright then .

[chilicheeseburger]

or actually not o didn't see it first but actually it just covers the part that makes contact to the pcb around the chip

[gazabi]

or actually not o didn't see it first but actually it just covers the part that makes contact to the pcb around the chip

Yeah, don't remove it, it probably stops the cooler from rubbing on the pcb around the chip and messing it up.

[chilicheeseburger]

Yeah, don't remove it, it probably stops the cooler from rubbing on the pcb around the chip and messing it up.

 

I left it on, put new thermal paste on and yeah its running now.

Let's see for how long tough.. lol Thanks Everyone.

[legopc]

I left it on, put new thermal paste on and yeah its running now.

Let's see for how long tough.. lol Thanks Everyone.

there are 5 or so people telling you its bad manufacturing and you should take it of yet one guy with 7 posts comes in here tells you some crap and you follow his advice??? 

[AMD Lover]

Good choice to leave it on, its always better to try something safe before you start going around and removing stuff thats already there.

[chilicheeseburger]

there are 5 or so people telling you its bad manufacturing and you should take it of yet one guy with 7 posts comes in here tells you some crap and you follow his advice???

The thing is i tought the protection film covered the whole heatsink. it actually has a square cutout in the middle where it makes direct contact to the chip on the gpu. The rest around the chip it is pcb and thats where the protection film makes contact.

But I didn't see that at first, so that's why it makes sense to leave it on.

Didn't mean to offend anyone.

[legopc]

The thing is i tought the protection film covered the whole heatsink. it actually has a square cutout in the middle where it makes direct contact to the chip on the gpu. The rest around the chip it is pcb and thats where the protection film makes contact.

But I didn't see that at first, so that's why it makes sense to leave it on.

Didn't mean to offend anyone.

whow whow whow hold on so the bottom of the heatsink is covered by a plastic thingy and it has cut out in the middle becaus if that is true then i was wrong and its alright to leave it on i thought there was a piece of plastic coverering the part where the chip touches the copper 

[chilicheeseburger]

whow whow whow hold on so the bottom of the heatsink is covered by a plastic thingy and it has cut out in the middle becaus if that is true then i was wrong and its alright to leave it on i thought there was a piece of plastic coverering the part where the chip touches the copper

Exactly. I didn't see this first that's why I created the thread here.