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adding passive/active cooling to 280x

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In an effort to reduce temperatures (running around 80c at 1090/1500), I'm wondering if anyone has tried adding more passive cooling to their 280x cards. I have a pair of Powercolor 280x which have a solid back plate on them and exposed heat pipes on the top of the card. The heat pipes are obviously getting hot and the back plate is also quite a bit hotter than I was expecting. Would adding heatsinks to the back plate and exposed sections of heat pipe have any real effect? I have a million old cpu coolers and small heat sinks to cut up and play with.

I was thinking of perhaps sticking an old small cpu cooler behind the gpu on the back plate and forming thin sections of heatsinks to the contour the exposed areas of the heat pipes.
 
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