8800 GTS Plastic Cover Removal for Cleaning?

[lincoln]

Hi guys, I have an 8800 GTS and I'm having trouble removing the plastic cover to expose the heatsink and fan for cleaning. Can anyone help me out here, I have the two small screws pulled off but it seems as though its still attached somewhere.

Thanks

[lowfat]

I don't think you can without removing the label on the fan casing.

[jeffyjaixx]

There are two smaller screws to the left of the larger ones, you have to inspect more closely.

[lincoln]

Good call, the EVGA label is covering the holes.
Warrantee voided, but at least I have a clean card
THanks guys

[board123]

Doesn't eVGA allow you to tamper with the heatsink? Changing the heatsink entirely doesn't void the warranty. They might be the only company that allows it.

[lincoln]

Ok, just an update guys I tried an experiment last night with my card. Instead of placing the plastic covering back on, I actually attached a 65cfm 120mm fan over the heatsink using a combination of copper wires and mods to the fan.
In comparison to the stock cooling I noticed a couple of things. One was that temperatures dropped about 10C from the stock fan temps on 100% fan speed. Believe it or not, the card was sitting at mid 50's under full load. After finding this out, I used ATI Tool to figure out the max on the GPU and ram before pixelation happened. here's the results:

120mm Cooling:

Load 58C
GPU 636mhz
ram 1018mhz


Stock Cooling:

Load 74C
GPU 636mhz
ram 985mhz

After going though all of this, I threw the stock cooling back on. For the little bit of performance gain it's not worth the effort of attaching a 120mm.