nVidia RTX 4000 heatsink modding?

[KLiKzg]

As I run Turing based Quadro RTX 4000, which gets heated up to 85°C, so I decided to do the modding of the heatsink in it. Reason why it gets heated up, as it is one of the most power hungry Quadro x4000 card on the market with 1x8pin connector & pulling 160W from the system!

Did some research, people have been doing it - but on other cards. Essentially, as that RTX 4000 should be the same as 2070, so I was thinking of getting something like this for ~40€:

& yes, I am aware that there might be some cutting of that case in order to fit to RTX4000...as well as some tape gluing the creavases in order to keep a fluid (air) not leaking into case.

Also, to get familiar with the RXT 4000, a teardown from Igor's lab was used: https://www.igorslab.de/en/nvidia-q...i-abger-with-surprise-performance-igorslab/2/


Does anybody have any experience with it?
Or do you suggest to sell the card & get something better for my Workstation? (as investment is around ~50€ + my work)

 

[N3utro]

160W is nothing. The rtx 5090 pulls 600W and stays below 80°C.

Your card is a 1 slot blower design which is aimed at beeing used in servers where space is restricted so you cant use a bigger heatsink or it wouldn't fit inside the server rack, and hot air needs to be extracted so a blower fan is used.

It's good for server use but because of the small heatsink and fan its cooling capabilities are much worse than traditional desktop GPUs.

See the difference?

Depending on what you work on with your workstation a desktop GPU might be better suited if you're aiming for better cooling and silence.

Yes you could try to mod your quadro to put another heatsink but it's usually not easy to find one that matches your card perfectly. The one you linked is a blower type as well so not optimal.

You could try this one if it's compatible:

PS: your workstation needs to have good case airflow if you're switching from a blower type heatsink to a non blower one. At least 2 x 120mm intake fans and 1 x 120mm exhaust fan. 140mm is better if possible.

 

[Assimilator]

85 degrees is not hot.

 

[KLiKzg]

85 degrees is not hot.

That is 85°C doing 24/7...

160W is nothing. The rtx 5090 pulls 600W and stays below 80°C.

Your card is a 1 slot blower design which is aimed at beeing used in servers where space is restricted so you cant use a bigger heatsink or it wouldn't fit inside the server rack, and hot air needs to be extracted so a blower fan is used.

It's good for server use but because of the small heatsink and fan its cooling capabilities are much worse than traditional desktop GPUs.

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See the difference?

Depending on what you work on with your workstation a desktop GPU might be better suited if you're aiming for better cooling and silence.

Yes you could try to mod your quadro to put another heatsink but it's usually not easy to find one that matches your card perfectly. The one you linked is a blower type as well so not optimal.

You could try this one if it's compatible:

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PS: your workstation needs to have good case airflow if you're switching from a blower type heatsink to a non blower one. At least 2 x 120mm intake fans and 1 x 120mm exhaust fan. 140mm is better if possible.

Which is exactly why I think using blower with dual slot will give me the advantage needed to cool this Quadro RTX 4000 significantly!

Not to mention that I personally, after some 10+ years of experience with GPU computing, came to conclusion that blower is better...as it would extract the heated air outside of the case & not heat up the case (including CPUs) with hot air from GPU(s). So all my cards are either Teslas with adapters & fans to blow them out or GPUs with blowers.

But thank you for your contribution...