Good Day everyone. I trust you are doing well.
Thought I would share a small modification that we did yesterday. Now I build custom air coolers. Would love to try my luck at GPUs but I just do not have the time at the moment.
I have a Sapphire RX470 Platinum Edition 4GB. Now it has a blower-style cooler. It would run 83C in gaming.
My friend gave me an R290x(I think, but I can't remember). The 290x does not work so I had a look at the cooler and saw it has the same Screw layout as the original cooler. So, I took the 290x apart.
The bottom layout was a lot different. So I cut out some of the bottom plate. The GPU had a bigger connection on the bottom plate. So this is the end product. Temp from 83C down to 65C. Happy with the end project.
I can maybe get it a little lower as I didn't replace paste. Waiting for my Thermal Grizzly to be delivered.
There is one thing I still need to try and fix. The fans are not balanced. This may be caused by the thermal pads. I think the thermal pads are too thick which causes it to be unbalanced. It rattles when The fan goes higher temp over 60C. I am going to see when I do a custom fan curve if this alleviates this problem a little.
PS: Don't diss me for where I put the GPU, had no time to get something properly as I am busy
Thought I would share a small modification that we did yesterday. Now I build custom air coolers. Would love to try my luck at GPUs but I just do not have the time at the moment.
I have a Sapphire RX470 Platinum Edition 4GB. Now it has a blower-style cooler. It would run 83C in gaming.
My friend gave me an R290x(I think, but I can't remember). The 290x does not work so I had a look at the cooler and saw it has the same Screw layout as the original cooler. So, I took the 290x apart.
The bottom layout was a lot different. So I cut out some of the bottom plate. The GPU had a bigger connection on the bottom plate. So this is the end product. Temp from 83C down to 65C. Happy with the end project.
I can maybe get it a little lower as I didn't replace paste. Waiting for my Thermal Grizzly to be delivered.
There is one thing I still need to try and fix. The fans are not balanced. This may be caused by the thermal pads. I think the thermal pads are too thick which causes it to be unbalanced. It rattles when The fan goes higher temp over 60C. I am going to see when I do a custom fan curve if this alleviates this problem a little.
PS: Don't diss me for where I put the GPU, had no time to get something properly as I am busy
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) and it just pushed the temp to 68c over the 65c. This is a huge decrease from 83c. The RX470 would disable itself when going to 80+ c. Now my next project will be to build a custom water block for this GPU as there is none for this GPU. I am not doing this to OC or anything. It is just for study purposes.