How are you cooling your graphics card? got something special/different? show it off.

[bear jesus]

I just finished chopping off part of my 6870's vrm, ram, support plate thingy (yes very technical description there ) and it made me wonder what other people here are doing to keep their gpu cool and if anyone else is chopping things up


I just did the pencil memory voltage mod while i had the card apart and will be running an industrial ducting fan with ducting to it to see how far i can push the overclocks here are some bad webcam pre install pic's.

The chunk i cut off


just begging for some industrial fan biased airflow


Now post some pictures of your cards and their cooling please

 

[HalfAHertz]

I have an intricate cooling solution consisting of a Rube Goldberg mechanism. It involves a monkey, a stack of bananas, a rubber belt, some pulleys and a fan. Unfortunately i have to change the bananas every few days because they go bad and start to stink. Once my monkey got sick and i had to blow the fan myself. Luckily it quickly got better and everything returned to normal.

Even tho my solution is much more awesome, I like yours more because it takes a lot less space and you don't have a monkey screaming at you and throwing poop when it gets mad.

 

[bear jesus]

I have an intricate cooling solution consisting of a Rube Goldberg mechanism. It involves a monkey, a stack of bananas, a rubber belt, some pulleys and a fan. Unfortunately i have to change the bananas every few days because they go bad and start to stink. Once my monkey got sick and i had to blow the fan myself. Luckily it quickly got better and everything returned to normal.

Even tho my solution is much more awesome, I like yours more because it takes a lot less space and you don't have a monkey screaming at you and throwing poop when it gets mad.

Yea that's special alright... but where are the pictures?

 

[mad1394]

Yea that's special alright... but where are the pictures?

monkey threw poop at camera probably

BTW what do u mean by pencil memory voltage mod stuff?

 

[streetfighter 2]

Yea that's special alright... but where are the pictures?

The monkey is camera shy.

Also one of the fan's mechanisms involves a concentrated beam of sterile neutrinos which, using a graviton field, triggers the stack of bananas. It's quite difficult to capture that with a traditional camera.

 

[bear jesus]

monkey threw poop at camera probably

BTW what do u mean by pencil memory voltage mod stuff?

darn monkeys

The pencil mod i mentioned is where you use a pencil to let more voltage past a resistor shown here for the 6870

 

[Techtu]

I just finished chopping off part of my 6870's vrm, ram, support plate thingy (yes very technical description there ) and it made me wonder what other people here are doing to keep their gpu cool and if anyone else is chopping things up


I just did the pencil memory voltage mod while i had the card apart and will be running an industrial ducting fan with ducting to it to see how far i can push the overclocks here are some bad webcam pre install pic's.

The chunk i cut off
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just begging for some industrial fan biased airflow
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Now post some pictures of your cards and their cooling please

You should post those pictures here Ghetto Mods

 

[[Ion]]

I'll try and get some pics of my setup later, but the basic idea is that I have my GTX260 as my primary GPU & the GTS450 as PhysX, and a Corsair 120mm fan (stock one from my H50) pushing air in over them

 

[bear jesus]

You should post those pictures here Ghetto Mods

very good idea.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

i dont have something different per se, but i do rock a VF1000 on my HD4850.

 

[bear jesus]

i dont have something different per se, but i do rock a VF1000 on my HD4850.

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the vf1000 was awesome when it came out although tiny compared to whats available now *looks towards the thermalright shaman*

Your vf1000 seams to have different shaped fins to mine or at least the top one, i assume they changed the design at some point.

 

[gunsmoke]

I just finished chopping off part of my 6870's vrm, ram, support plate thingy (yes very technical description there ) and it made me wonder what other people here are doing to keep their gpu cool and if anyone else is chopping things up


I just did the pencil memory voltage mod while i had the card apart and will be running an industrial ducting fan with ducting to it to see how far i can push the overclocks here are some bad webcam pre install pic's.

The chunk i cut off
View attachment 38779
View attachment 38777
just begging for some industrial fan biased airflow
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Now post some pictures of your cards and their cooling please

On my rig i have 120mm fan siting next two my g.p.u. blowing air at it
And iv toke the metel pci card plats out my p.c case for air flow near my g.p.u.

 

[Deleted member 74752]

Early efforts from long ago with two 110cfm fans...

Nowadays the cards are so powerful I find little need to even overclock them for gaming purposes.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

I cut the stock vrm/ram heatsink on my 470 to fit around the icy vision, then I stuck the vrm/ram sinks that came with the kit on top just to make it more badass. Can see the little ones in between there.

 

[pantherx12]

Cooled my cards with all sorts.

Alpenfóhn Heidi on xfx 5770

Twin turbo on hd 3850,

HR-03 plus on HD3870, my 3870 screamed with this cooling it, got huge overclocks : ]

And Neo vortex on 3850

[/IMG]

T-rad2 on 3850, I fitted this cooler to a lot more cards, was brilliant, hence passive 3850 fully overclocked with lower load temps than stock cooler

 

[Swamp Monster]

HD 3650 AGP on self-made water cooler in my other/old PC. Yes I know - Cable management is awful

 

[Mussels]

accelero S1 with 140mm fan

 

[BUCK NASTY]

How about a 3400rpm Delta 113cfm fan hovering above a cluster of Fermi cards?

 

[T3RM1N4L D0GM4]

Radeon HD3850 + Zalman VF900-CU

Perfect silence and great cooling @ min speed

 

[JATownes]

I just have a Zalman VF1000 on one 4850, and hacked apart the factory (single slot) cooler to cool the ram/VRMs. On my other 4850, I have an non-reference MSI 4890 cooler attached to it. Works like a charm. Sorry, no pics yet, I am not at home, on my phone ATM. (love my droid x). I will post pics when I get back to the house.

 

[Mussels]

Radeon HD3850 + Zalman VF900-CU

Perfect silence and great cooling @ min speed

http://img.techpowerup.org/101107/IMG_0038.jpg

i get dead silence too love it.


the only noise in my system is the PSU fan and the hard drives, and they're both fairly quiet (but definitely not silent)

 

[pantherx12]

my 3850 had one of those on, I took it off because performance was to low and noise to high lol

 

[bear jesus]

So many awesome setup's

 

[Widjaja]

Accelero Twin Turbo on HD4850.
Very satisfactory cooling bar the poor thermal adhesive and slight modding i had to do to a VRM and RAM cooler.

 

[Patches O'Houlihan]

I cut the stock vrm/ram heatsink on my 470 to fit around the icy vision, then I stuck the vrm/ram sinks that came with the kit on top just to make it more badass. Can see the little ones in between there.
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7290/p1000756bq.jpg

Hey LAN, how are the temps with the Icy Vision? I thought about picking up the Zalman VF3000F from Directron.com, but would like a cheaper alternative.