Sapphire 9600 Pro: Does it use non-standard heatsink holes?

[J3anyus]

I have a Sapphire 9600 Pro that I wanted to put a Zalman heatpipe cooler onto because the stock fan on the card is starting to get somewhat noisy. I started messing with the card tonight, and took off the stock cooler and went to install a Zalman ZM80-HP. However, neither of the front pieces that came with the Zalman unit would fit on my card. It seems as though the mounting holes on the card are spaced in some really weird way that I've never seen before. The holes are further apart than on a 9800 card, but closer together than on a GeForce4 Ti. I should've snapped a picture of the card's holes, but for some reason didn't think to do that. I do, however, have a picture of the stock cooler and Zalman's two provided front pieces for their cooler, all lined up next to one another so the difference is visible. That picture is here:

http://s91492508.onlinehome.us/vidcard.jpg

The stock cooler is on top, with the two Zalman pieces below it. The piece in the middle almost fits, but doesn't. I noticed that I can turn the mounting brackets on it to make the piece fit onto my card, but then the piece goes on sideways and the heatsink goes on all lopsided, which is a bad thing.

This is the exact video card I have:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-301&catalog=48&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=1

Anyway, I hope I'm just missing something stupid here that someone can point out to me. Any help whatsoever would be appreciated.

Thanks a bunch

- Jacob

Edit: Cross-posted between Cases and Cooling and Video to hopefully get some more exposure. If this is a bad thing, just let me know.

 

[J3anyus]

Bump

 

[tacom8]

To my knowledge it should be the exact same hole set for all the radeons, i recently installed a Vga silencer on mine and it only has one set of holes for it, and it fit fine on my sapphire 9600p. Not sure if this helps at all tho....

good luck with that

 

[Mingon]

You need to use the top of the two zalman heatsinks. Undo the screws on the retention arms adjust to width and then re tighten. I had a sapphire 9600 pro.

 

[slpaulson]

If you just rotate the original heatsink 45 degrees in your first picture, I think you'd see how the zalman fits.