Golden Orb fitted to 9800 SE

Cuzza · Jul 3, 2007

Got pissed off with the noisy little fan on my 9800SE video card last night so I pulled it off and spent ages making an old Thermaltake Golden Orb slot 1 cooler fit instead. Finally got it on and it works sweet and looks pretty cool too. Then I got kinda proud of myself (I've never modded anything in my computer before) and decided I had to share it with someone. So here you go.

pbmaster · Jul 3, 2007

Nice, what kind of temps you getting now man?

freaksavior · Jul 3, 2007

dude! seriously thats pretty cool! modded a cooler to fit it! nice job!

Cuzza · Jul 3, 2007

pbmaster said:
Nice, what kind of temps you getting now man?

I wouldn't know, I don't know how to check it. I just did it for the noise really; the stock fan was a heap of crap. Had considered buying some flash Zalman cooler, but this looks better and is waaaay cheaper (got it for $3 at a junk shop). Kind of miffed that I scratched it it the process. Better get some gold touch up paint I suppose! And it's a big bastard and it blocks 2 PCI slots.

Agility · Jul 3, 2007

DUde that's a cool style new way i've ever seen. Lol...nice job....

tkpenalty · Jul 3, 2007

cuzza said:
I wouldn't know, I don't know how to check it. I just did it for the noise really; the stock fan was a heap of crap. Had considered buying some flash Zalman cooler, but this looks better and is waaaay cheaper (got it for $3 at a junk shop). Kind of miffed that I scratched it it the process. Better get some gold touch up paint I suppose! And it's a big bastard and it blocks 2 PCI slots.

Thats really cool, just check if the cooler is flat.

Cuzza · Jul 3, 2007

tkpenalty said:
Thats really cool, just check if the cooler is flat.

You mean flat against the chip? I think it is. The base of the cooler overlaps a little bit with the square part on the board around the chip (what's that bit for anyway?) because I couldn't sit it on there square, that's because if I had it would be too low and hit the PCI slots when installed. I think the chip is on the same height as that anyway, though I had considered grinding the base of the cooler off a bit to make sure it didn't touch. It works anyway, so that's good enough for me at this stage. I'm not OCing it (yet).

tkpenalty · Jul 3, 2007

cuzza said:
You mean flat against the chip? I think it is. The base of the cooler overlaps a little bit with the square part on the board around the chip (what's that bit for anyway?) because I couldn't sit it on there square, that's because if I had it would be too low and hit the PCI slots when installed. I think the chip is on the same height as that anyway, though I had considered grinding the base of the cooler off a bit to make sure it didn't touch. It works anyway, so that's good enough for me at this stage. I'm not OCing it (yet).

Yeah thats what i meant, give the base a nice lap as well so you get the best performance out of it.

Cuzza · Jul 3, 2007

tkpenalty said:
Yeah thats what i meant, give the base a nice lap as well so you get the best performance out of it.

Lap? what's that mean?

Wayward · Jul 3, 2007

Dude! First, I must say that is really cool. I'm glad you decided to share. :toast:

Second, Lapping is the art of finishing off the contact surface of the heatsink by smoothly sanding it. You use finer and finer grits until you get a mirror finish. The smoothness can increase the performance of your heatsink. Some people also lap their CPU, if of course it has an IHS (Integrated Heat Sink).

Finally, a question. I'm sure we've all heard of dual-slot heatsinks before, but what should we call that? Triple-slot maybe?

W1zzard · Jul 3, 2007

do NOT lap your gpu chip. it's bare silicon, no heatspreader

Cuzza · Jul 3, 2007

Haha, yeah Triple-Slot indeed. But who cares, because I've got 5 PCI slots and only using one of them! As for lapping, thanks for the explanation, maybe next time! hmmmm...

So anyway, here's what it looks like installed:

Ripper3 · Jul 3, 2007

Very nice mod. Looks nice, and I guess it really cut down fan noise. Small fans are always noisy little buggers.

Cuzza · Jul 3, 2007

Ripper3 said:
Very nice mod. Looks nice, and I guess it really cut down fan noise. Small fans are always noisy little buggers.

Well actually, it's not that quiet, but it's just the whooshing air sound I hear now, where the old fan made a horrible whirring noise.

I was thinking of hooking it up through the Fanmate controller on my Zalman CPU cooler. I imagine it wouldn't hurt it. Any thoughts, anyone?

tkpenalty · Jul 3, 2007

cuzza said:
Well actually, it's not that quiet, but it's just the whooshing air sound I hear now, where the old fan made a horrible whirring noise.

I was thinking of hooking it up through the Fanmate controller on my Zalman CPU cooler. I imagine it wouldn't hurt it. Any thoughts, anyone?

You cant, u modded it to use the 2 pin.

Wayward · Jul 3, 2007

cuzza said:
Well actually, it's not that quiet, but it's just the whooshing air sound I hear now, where the old fan made a horrible whirring noise.

I was thinking of hooking it up through the Fanmate controller on my Zalman CPU cooler. I imagine it wouldn't hurt it. Any thoughts, anyone?

The fanmate should work fine, as long as the fan has the proper pin-connection. Otherwise, prepare to solder wires to make the contacts. I have used a fanmate before for a similar application. It works great.

Cuzza · Jul 3, 2007

tkpenalty said:
You cant, u modded it to use the 2 pin.

Wayward is right; I can solder it up. Maybe tomorrow.

In other news, New Zealand just lost the America's Cup. Grrrrrr.....

Cuzza · Jul 4, 2007

Well, I did it, now both GPU and CPU fans running off same Fanmate controller. It works brilliantly! Now with the Golden Orb running at 1/2 speed it's no louder than the Zalman on the CPU and the noisiest thing in there is now the PSU fan. Stoked.

Oh, in other news, I left some lamb chops on the kitchen bench that I was gonna stew up for dinner, and the fucking neighbours' cat came in and ate two of them the motherfucker!

Wayward · Jul 6, 2007

cuzza said:
Well, I did it, now both GPU and CPU fans running off same Fanmate controller. It works brilliantly! Now with the Golden Orb running at 1/2 speed it's no louder than the Zalman on the CPU and the noisiest thing in there is now the PSU fan. Stoked.

Good work!

cuzza said:
Oh, in other news, I left some lamb chops on the kitchen bench that I was gonna stew up for dinner, and the fucking neighbours' cat came in and ate two of them the motherfucker!

Mussels · Jul 6, 2007

bad kitty!

excellent mod - i remember people doing things like this in years gone by (socket 370/478 coolers on their video cards) - back then it was the equivalent of people using LN2 now.

Havent seen this kinda thing in years tho however, great work! just make sure it wont fall off on you and break something.

Black Panther · Jul 6, 2007

Very nice and professional.

In the first picture it looks though as if the card wouldn't be entering the slot properly because of the fins of the heat-sink?

Probably just the angle of the photo, since yours is working.

Cuzza · Jul 6, 2007

Mussels said:
bad kitty!

excellent mod - i remember people doing things like this in years gone by (socket 370/478 coolers on their video cards) - back then it was the equivalent of people using LN2 now.

Havent seen this kinda thing in years tho however, great work! just make sure it wont fall off on you and break something.

Beats paying for some flash cooler I say, and you end up with something unique. It's on there solid, I'm pretty confident with that. Glad you approve.

Black Panther said:
Very nice and professional.

In the first picture it looks though as if the card wouldn't be entering the slot properly because of the fins of the heat-sink?

Probably just the angle of the photo, since yours is working.

Yes, it is the angle of the photo.

Mussels · Jul 6, 2007

hmm.... now all you need is ramsinks, a Vmod, and some really high overclocking

bigboi86 · Jul 6, 2007

You can't check temps on a 9800 series card unless it has the LM63 monitoring chip, which was only found on some 9800XT's, and rarely Pros that used the XT PCB.

EDIT: You know since your memory is in the L shape, you can probably unlock 4 pipelines and flash your card to 9800Pro.

Cuzza · Jul 6, 2007

bigboi86 said:
You know since your memory is in the L shape, you can probably unlock 4 pipelines and flash your card to 9800Pro.

yep, already done that. thanks

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