And finally....
and now It looks f**king ugly
but i still think the heatsinks across the vrms on the last pic was a very nice touch...
I didnt know what was what so i just glued a heatsink on everything that looked like it needed cooling.... I really should of done a before and after when it came to OC'ing as i'll never know if these heatsinks really made a difference or not.
I did try to contact a few local metal workshops here and request use of a CNC machine for a fair price for 20-30mins but none of them got back to me
a lot of the heatsinks ordered ended up being too big and you can still see on the top pic how the heatsinks on the VRMs just about fit across the width of the card. without causing too much trouble while the rest of the heatsinks were from Arctic Cooling.
I think i did an alright job given the circumstances. I dont think this 1080 ti is very resellable now unless theres secretly some freak that likes the look of frankenstein'd cards or cards that have been hit with the ugly stick.