Video Card Cooling and YOU

[krazy]

I was sick of the whine and bearing rattle noise the little fan in my Thermaltake GF4 cooler made, so I built a homebrew cooler for it using a K6-2 heatsink (designed to be cooled by the power supply's fan in a little compaq) and the little green 60mm fan from a stock AMD cooler. I did some drilling, tapping, polishing, and hot-melt gluing, and it works very well. I run the fan on 5 volts so it is undiscernable over the rest of the computer's moving parts.



See more pictures and a writeup on it here: http://www.basementfreaks.com/member...4_overkill.php

[-J-]

you may havent noticed that this thread was 5 month old right?

i installed a GW FOP32 on my ex gf2 gts (now its on my brothers computer)

i used it originally in pasive mode, but it got somewhat warm, so i installed a 80mm fan at 7v on it, 0 noise good cooling. anyway it doesnt put all that heat as modern cards do

[guandi]

I got a old Slot A heatsink cut up on the GF2 in this comp, if you find one that had the fins in the middle with the fan on, then a gap each side and then another set of fins (4 deep), you can cut each end section into 2 and mount them accross Ram chips mounted horizontally (end to end, not side to side) and use the chunk in the middle with the fan on the CPGu itself.

on my GF4Ti4200 i have an Asetek Waterchill GPU block and some slightly modified Thermaltake heatsinks (the ones that come with Ram heatspreaders), on my GF4MX440 i have a modified stock cooler for a 1800XP and a cut up section of aluminium heatspreader for a 24-12VDC inverter on the Ram, on my GFFX5200 i have a old northbridge heatsink (quite a big one, about 2" tall) with a 40mm fan hot glued to each side and a peice of cardboard over the top so it acts like a tunnel, and some Coolermaster aluminium ramsinks, and on my GFFX5950Ultra, i have 16 TweakMonster BGA Ramsinks, a blue Danger Den Maze4-GPU block with 1/2" brass fittings, the core has the heatspreader removed and there are 2 240V fans from my heatercore pushing about 250CFM of cold air over it.

i'm well cooled in the GFX division

[j813]

wet.... lol

future might try the wet and extreme

[Anemone]

Well not an entirely fair poll, because I'm about to upgrade - well I need the Nv45 to come out first but that's 6 mo away

I would have used fancier cooling, but on stock I got a 5950 to 565/1020, from the stock 475/1000, so I kind of stopped. Xbit labs used volt mod and super chilling to only get this chip at about 600 so there wasn't much need. And the stock cooling is silent compared to the rest of my system. There is an 80mm fan blowing on the card, Panaflo M series, but that's it. Stock though is the rather nice thin fin alum hs, with the air being pulled in from the outside over it, so its really no wonder it works so well.

NV40 and 45 are going to generate a more moderately serious amount of heat. I'm going Swiftech MCW50-T, pelt, on that one. 40 due Apr 13, 45 due July-Aug.

$.02

[Apocalipsis]

I'm running an MCW50-T over my R9800 PRO at 460/390, stock speed is 380/340 so not bad at all.

At the back of the card to prevent condensation I use neutral silicone plus a thick piece of neoprene pressed by a DIY copper plate.




Regards,
Apocalipsis.

[TheXtremeDude]

Hows about adding Phasechange to the poll?

[Anemone]

LOL on the PC option - should be there but funny someone would mention it, but this is an old thread.

I guess the Nv45 is going to be THE pci-e part to own from NV - so that's on the shopping list. Thinking 172w pelt run @ 12v for about 89w yield, not sure on the block yet.

I'll be curious as the new X800's and 6800's roll into users hands how many people would like to revise their answers.

Time will tell!

[KnightElite]

I find it funny people still reply to this thread .

[DeadEye]

Originally Posted by Blackeagle

I agree with everyone else, why are the graphics cards upside down?

Simple really it is to make owners of Shuttle computers go mad as they have no space to get a decent off the shelf cooler onto their GPU's and still be able to put their case on.

[Sheep]

Originally Posted by phreenet

Why don't they just flip the card components around so that when inserted into a tower case the GPU is right side up. That way they could use that one slot above the AGP card that I have yet to find a use for instead of using a PCI slot.

I always thought it was a dust thing, upside down card = dust on back not in the fans and hs (assuming youve got a single side hs )
Also i dont have that slot above my AGP (to be honest i havnt seen that before on any of my cases) which makes me kinda thankfull they didnt flip the cards
But i do recon they should spend more time making the back HS prettier then the front coz unless youve got a pimped out rig with mirrors all round it its kinda hard to see front lol.

[Arcturius]

Originally Posted by KnightElite

I find it funny people still reply to this thread .

I think it's funny that you automatically lumped yourself in with that group.

DOH!! Me too.

[ZaVkE]

Originally Posted by DeadEye

Simple really it is to make owners of Shuttle computers go mad as they have no space to get a decent off the shelf cooler onto their GPU's and still be able to put their case on.

As long as you don't use Zalmanlike things you should be able to mount them pretty decent.
WB are another thing, there you must seek a thin model like koolance, Xice, dd maze4, ...

[Nightfall]

Originally Posted by DeadEye

Simple really it is to make owners of Shuttle computers go mad as they have no space to get a decent off the shelf cooler onto their GPU's and still be able to put their case on.

Thats why you buy an Antec Aria

[Arcturius]

Originally Posted by Nightfall

Thats why you buy an Antec Aria

Or just hack up the door, and graft a 'scoop' onto it. Give your PC that 'Supercharged 1983 Mulletmobile' look.

[DrMemory]

Zalman ZM80D with "optional" fan on Radeon 9800 Pro. Next one will probably be water cooled Nvidia 6600 GT.

[dogbait]

Just got this six year old WTX case off ebay and much like the new BTX standard it has everything the right side up.