Anyone seen this?

[blueonblack]

Yesterday after doing some fiddling in my case evidently I loosened the power to the fans on my video card cooler. I keep Everest running at all times so my temps are visible in the taskbar. I walked away, came back a few minutes later and the video temp was 103.

I shut it down and fixed the problem, no evident ill effects, but I pulled the cooler off today to reinstall it with a copper spacer plate, as I've never been happy with the fit, and this is what I found on the contact area:

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/blueonblack/Pics/P1050678_800x600.jpg

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/blueonblack/Pics/P1050679_800x600.jpg

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/blueonblack/Pics/Cutout%201.jpg

It won't come off with Arcticlean or Alcohol, seems to be there forever.

Anyone seen transfer like this?

[Oneslowz28]

Wow thats really odd...

[crenn]

I've seen things like that happen before, I wouldn't be worried about it honestly

[diluzio91]

lol... good to see you'r backing ATI. lol

[blueonblack]

I've seen things like that happen before, I wouldn't be worried about it honestly

Not worried about it really, it seemed odd. I have to assume it's a thermal transfer of some kind, but the transfer looks like copper, and the cooler has a plated copper base. Almost like the plating got burned through. Interesting.

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

try rippin into a few 360s.. u'll see this all the time... lol
the only really good way ive found to remove it.. is lapping.. which is just a good idea in general anyways