daveh98 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I received my 580s and SLI cable and install was fine until getting to the heat sink. There are no brackets on the NVIDIA cards like amd cards? Do you use the amd screws that appear soldered on??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 You mean no backplate on the GPU? Can you provide some pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveh98 Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 From the research I'm doing it seems like the heat sinks are incompatible I just don't know why that wasn't pointed out to me. No pics as I'm only on my phone right now:/. Are the heat sinks compatible and what is used to secure it to the GPU? The 6970 had like these small brackets to attach to the heat sink. Thanks all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 The 580m and 6990m heatsinks are slightly different as far as I know, and the backplates of the cards are definitely different.But I can't really help you just now, since I'm not 100% about what exactly the problem is. Maybe an M18x user can provide some insights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveh98 Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 Hopefully Brian sees this. Thanks for the input so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 [MENTION=5]Brian K.[/MENTION] Dave needs your expertise on the M18x and the 580m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveb00bs Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 (edited) sorry was way too baked. hehehehe Edited January 7, 2012 by iloveb00bs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted January 7, 2012 Founder Share Posted January 7, 2012 Dave, you're going to need the nvidia heatsinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moman667 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Hey daveh98 where did you buy your nvidia 580m from and how much was it for the sli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Hey daveh98 where did you buy your nvidia 580m from and how much was it for the slihopefully he got good price Dell told me $2600 no way id buy at that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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