Post Pictures of your GPU Mod!

What exactly do you mean by GPU mod? Do you mean like, a custom fan/heatsink or something?
 
Something that you have done to your video card that you can't but from a store, for example mounting a cpu fan on a video card. Something like an ati silencer or water cooling. Water cooling doesn't count unless you mounted it on a gtx or an x1800 or something
 
a little ghetto but my temps are good. idle is 30c and after 3 hours of hl2 it never breaks 50.

all i did was take a nv silencer and cut a square opening in the top and mounted a water block onto the heatsink. its weird but it works. it was only experimental at first.







 
92mm Delta on a VF-700Cu..ignore the date I'm too lazy to change the date :cool:
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PNY 6800GT running 450/1100 @ 65ish load
 
My 9800 pro's fan just died this week, so I fastened a 80mm fan under the heatsink using copper wires :)
will get pics sometime later...
 
ghetto but kind of effective

took a pci bracket, screwed an old amd fan to it, and positioned it so it would blow on my 9800 pro
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I haven't done any GPU modding latley because new cards like my 7800GTX are really great straight out of the box. But back when I cared about every little bit I voltage modded my geforce 2 (see the red circle) and added part of a heatsink from a slot A athlon to it. Very good cooling. Fitted the origional Heatsink to the back of the card and put some decent ram sinks on as well. Got a good overclock out of it, can't remember exact figures though.. so long ago

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stryder2720 said:
Because I can..period.

Not to be an ass but thats why lol
i know your not trying to be an ass lol i was just wondeirng :p id prolly hack out some of the fine and mout it in the gpu and have the silencer on top and make peopl go wtf? all the time, looks different none the less
 
0mega said:
why not just put the water block on the chip?! im so lost lol

it was experimental. but i ended up liking it. i got decent temps with the silencer only but then i thought, "what the heck" then stuck the gpu block on top of it and it dropped the temps more than i thought it would. so i left it on. and i dont care what other people think, its MY computer and im the one that has to look at it everyday.
 
A.D.FIFTY said:
it was experimental. but i ended up liking it. i got decent temps with the silencer only but then i thought, "what the heck" then stuck the gpu block on top of it and it dropped the temps more than i thought it would. so i left it on. and i dont care what other people think, its MY computer and im the one that has to look at it everyday.
yeahhhh, that's what im talking about, f*ck everybody else
 
gforce 3 ti with some ghettolicious cooling

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nv 6600gt with additional hsi bridge chip cooling, and vf700 alcu offcourse.

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gt-delicious


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Oh, you your jaws are gonna drop when I mount an XP-90C onto an X850pro flashed x850xt pe :p will be done pretty soon after I paint my case.

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KEEP THE PICS COMING ;)
 
The fan on my good ol 9800 Pro starting to make a buzzing noise. Iv got a AC Silencer on it. I removed the fan and plastic surrounding the heatsink then rubberbanded a 70MM fan on it. I idle temp is low 30's and load is lower 40's. I was very impressed. I can provide pictures if someone wants em, to lazy right now. :eek:
 
NV Silencer on my 7800GTX

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naked GTX, you can see a few of the q-tips i used to clean the ram with.

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revenant said:
those swiftech ramsinks are gaining popularity I see :)

They're OK. I had to grind 2 of them to fit them under the block. Also, the thermal tape they come with wouldn't stick to my memory. I had to go out to CompUSA and buy some crappy chipset cooling kit that had thermal tape included. That worked better, but not great, one of them already fell off, so i had to put it back on.
 
What initially attracked me to them was the uni-flow air cooling design... using pins rather than fins... they are also high quality drop forged, pretty solid contruction. I had to trim two of mine also to fin under the gpu block barbs... which was easy with some small wire snippers. but the thermal tape worked very well for me, it's pretty high quality stuff, as far as tape based thermal adhesives go... you have to press the sink on hard, giving it *good* even pressure for about 1 minute, then they stay on pretty well... the tape also seems to "set" because the next day my memory OC went up by 40 mhz. lol. Anyways... using AS thermal epoxy is the best way to go generally, but it's so perminent.
 
with it in the same loop as my processor, i average around 36-38c idle and around 42-43c load. much better than the 80c+ i was getting with the stock cooler :)
 
revenant said:
What initially attracked me to them was the uni-flow air cooling design... using pins rather than fins... they are also high quality drop forged, pretty solid contruction. I had to trim two of mine also to fin under the gpu block barbs... which was easy with some small wire snippers. but the thermal tape worked very well for me, it's pretty high quality stuff, as far as tape based thermal adhesives go... you have to press the sink on hard, giving it *good* even pressure for about 1 minute, then they stay on pretty well... the tape also seems to "set" because the next day my memory OC went up by 40 mhz. lol. Anyways... using AS thermal epoxy is the best way to go generally, but it's so perminent.

Try to direct some active cooling at the swiftech sinks, like a 120mm fan. I bet your OC will be at least 20mhz higher. Depends on the RPM and the size of the fan. I will be getting those sinks soon cus they're all copper and yet at a very affordable price :)
 
yepp - done that... they seem to max out at 1365 or 1370... 1350 is good to go all day and night though.... very solid. :) I think if I used AS epoxy I might gain a few extra mhz... but it's not worth the hassle ATM.
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it's a little gehtto, but the 80mm --> 60mm adapter helps funnel the air really well, so it hits the cards hard, and not too much of the surrounding areas. I am thinking up a more elegant design for it...
 
I guess my solution isn't so ghetto as a few here, i'm just using The card cooler original (2x80mm sunons) since 1999 or so, now using it on my 7800GT and getting 33 idle, its weird but the camera took the shot like it fans were still, but it was running!

 
stryder2720 said:
92mm Delta on a VF-700Cu..ignore the date I'm too lazy to change the date :cool:
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PNY 6800GT running 450/1100 @ 65ish load
haha, my camera defualts to valentines day too, just 2003 instead.
 
thisisglen said:
I think the origional ramskins look better on that card. I have one in my HTPC case.

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Whoa, that's one of the nicest photo's I have seen in a while.
 
alik4041 said:
Something that you have done to your video card that you can't but from a store, for example mounting a cpu fan on a video card. Something like an ati silencer or water cooling. Water cooling doesn't count unless you mounted it on a gtx or an x1800 or something


k, first you say something you CANT buy in a store, but then you say something like an ATI silencer......

So which is it :)
 
i didnt get pictures of it but just yesterday i modified a vantec iceberq 4 pro to fit my fx5700le because the stock heat sink fan died. Iit involved removing the vantecs stock mounting system(cutting it off) and drilling out a new one as well as grinding down the side of it so it would fit around the agp slot connector. shoulda done it sooner i was able to go from 310Mhz overclock to a 403Mhz overclock
 
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