Well kinda
Got bored and had an excess of zip ties lying around today. Found a factory AIO cooler from a buddies amd fx bulldoser something or other, tossed em in a bag, shook thoroughly, and ta-da. This happened.
Card originally is a reference evga sc. Running in sli, this is my bottom card, with the factory fan at 100% would typically idle at 45c and top out at 80-90c depending on the benchmark or extended gaming session. Takes 1.165v to get it to 1150mhz.
With the AMD factory liquid cooler, idle is ambient (30ish) load temps so far are staying under 50c.
I didn't want to cut up my stock cooler...but to retain the onboard fan for vrm and choke cooling i'll probably have to... so instead I slapped on an old msi twin frozr "heatsink" for now to see how it functioned.
Long story short it gets friggin hot. choke area and pcb gets to around 75c-80c. No artifacts or instability tho, and the gpu stays MUCH cooler than the factory sink. Much quieter as well.
But, final result is I will need to provide a little active cooling for the pcb in order for me to feel comfortable running it like I normally would. Guess the factory heatsink will be going under the knife!
*edit* amd stuff
Got bored and had an excess of zip ties lying around today. Found a factory AIO cooler from a buddies amd fx bulldoser something or other, tossed em in a bag, shook thoroughly, and ta-da. This happened.
Card originally is a reference evga sc. Running in sli, this is my bottom card, with the factory fan at 100% would typically idle at 45c and top out at 80-90c depending on the benchmark or extended gaming session. Takes 1.165v to get it to 1150mhz.
With the AMD factory liquid cooler, idle is ambient (30ish) load temps so far are staying under 50c.
I didn't want to cut up my stock cooler...but to retain the onboard fan for vrm and choke cooling i'll probably have to... so instead I slapped on an old msi twin frozr "heatsink" for now to see how it functioned.
Long story short it gets friggin hot. choke area and pcb gets to around 75c-80c. No artifacts or instability tho, and the gpu stays MUCH cooler than the factory sink. Much quieter as well.
But, final result is I will need to provide a little active cooling for the pcb in order for me to feel comfortable running it like I normally would. Guess the factory heatsink will be going under the knife!
*edit* amd stuff
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