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To make your lifes even worse, here is another one that I did a while ago. Original fan died and I had to replace it with something so I decided to make the whole cooler bit more efficient.



What you need: Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive or something similar to work as a glue, original heat sink from GFX card and one extra heat sink from for example an old 486 CPU or chipset.



Use a saw to make that extra heatsink bit smaller so it fits to the place where the original cooling fan was located. Material of the heatsink is quite soft so it is easy to saw.



Glue the two pieces together. Idea here is to add more cooling surface if someone missed it.



Original plastic fixing pins were quite small so I replaced them with couple of cable tiers to make a secure connection between the heatsink and the GPU core.



Fan used here is made by BitsPower and it is 60x60 mm - 12 volt model. I used a 7 volt trick by connecting the fan's red wire to the pin that will receive 12 volts from PSU's yellow wire. Black wire from the fan was connected to the pin that will receive 5 volts from the red wire coming from the PSU.



And finished product. Bigger fan, using 7 volts and larger cooling area improved both the temperatures and lowered the noise. Quite easy mod to do and highly effective if the old fan dies and you don't have the warranty any more. (or you just want to boost the performance)

Mod itself should be doable the same way with most GFX cards. At least when there is this new additional power connector available. Happy Modding!

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Nice work...

Do you have any over clocking improvements?

Do you have any temp results?

Nice

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On my GeForce4ti4400,
I might be able to do that when my fans cark it. An annoying thing with those filters there is after cleaning them, you might push them into far, making a hissing noise when the fans move against the filters. As you can see by the piccies, it would be an easy job to mount either two 80cm or 70cm fans onto the card. Dammit, I got an ant in my box.... Do they cause any harm?

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Why don't you just remove the filters altogether?

BTW Nice mod japala...keep them coming

yea i had to do something like this when the fan on my 9700 pro died...but the 80 mm tornado i put on it was only there while i waited for my zalman cooler to arrive...by the way the tornado sure does some nice cooling on that little heatsink

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and if you dont like it then to bad

well its prety dusty down there anyway

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Hmm very nice cooler indeed An@rchy, although a bit overkill if you ask me.

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It's clearly evident that there's a HSF on the moon, idiot.

The faster a cpu the faster it will reach a crashed state.

Ratta tat tat's back... kinda.

It's like that (without the fans) on the other side

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Nice one. As allways I sometime did something like that too. Just don't remember what card was it.

minkä kokonen siili tollaseen samanlaiseen näytönohjainsiiliin(r9700pro)
mahtuu(korkeus,leveys,syvyys)???