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wopsang

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Idea: Remove GPU fan and shroud, leave exposed heatsink to be cooled by 2 x120MM 1350RPM Gentle Typhoons

I'll preface this by saying that I have an NCase M1 so the video card is right in front of these bottom mounted fans.

I got a 7870 PCS+ that was watercooled but after taking it off for cleaning the block I bought from a Chinese manufacturer, well, it fell apart. Ah well. Its temporary until the new cards come out so I don't really care that much.

I put on the original heatsink and realized that the video card would be pretty loud when in use. THAN I thought, hey why not take off this fan and shroud and just leave the Gentle Typhoons to cool the video card. No noise, should be better cooling.

Now I have done this but not powered it on. Anyone think this is a bad idea??
 
I've done similar de-shroud type things in the past. My blower died on an old 260, so I just ripped the shroud off and put a 120mm under it propped up all ghetto like on top of the soundcard, actually ran a bit cooler than before.

Looks like your GTs are mounted directly under the GPU? I say go for it, use the bare heatsink, just keep an eye on your temps, vrm's too. If it doesn't work out, well there's your reason to upgrade to the new cards as soon as they come out ;p
 
I think it can barely work, the card will run hot but i don't think to very dangerous limit but considerably hot constantly.. due to the little airflow the card will receive specially if you have dust filters with the fans.. but man, test it, thats the best way to know...
 
jthomas said:
I've done similar de-shroud type things in the past. My blower died on an old 260, so I just ripped the shroud off and put a 120mm under it propped up all ghetto like on top of the soundcard, actually ran a bit cooler than before.

Looks like your GTs are mounted directly under the GPU? I say go for it, use the bare heatsink, just keep an eye on your temps, vrm's too. If it doesn't work out, well there's your reason to upgrade to the new cards as soon as they come out ;p
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Similarly, I've improved cooling on some cards by using more/better fans directly on to the cooler.
I'm in no doubt you can improve the standard fans performance.
 
The problem is, a lot of those fins are folded closed on top in a shrouded cooler. You'll have to pop it off and check for yourself.
 
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