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Heatsink bracing

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burgerkong

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Ingenious if I may say so, 30# test cable (believe it or not, temps did go down as the weight of the cooler was pulling the sink away from the cores on top):

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Brendan
 
Nice work.

I've seen people brace their heatsinks in a similar fashion before, but you've taken great pics and provided details.

I might have to try that.
 
nice, yeah i did something similar to that with another heatsink using an old sturgeon fishing wire i had laying around with 2 1/0 swivels on each end. worked pretty damn well. luckily my xclios case just has a thin bar so i was able to loop it around the bar to get the exact length i wanted. but your setup looks nice clean the way it was done.
 
Here's the same done to my videocard!

Finally we have reached the penultimate update of the silent Lian Li! I got my Arctic Cooling S1 Plus heatsink at last and installed it a few nights ago. I thought their G1 thermal adhesive was going to be hard to work with as after I applied pressure and let go, the VRM sinks slid around, but luckily after curing for a few hours they didn't fall off and I was able to mount the actual VGA sink. First off, it's BIG, but not ginormously so, thus most cases will be able to swallow it. Secondly you really do have to check the heights of any capacitors on the board itself, as it JUST clears the tops of the capacitors on my MSI 7770:

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View from the front intakes, relatively unimpeded, straight to the two passive sinks. I may build a duct for the bottom fan to channel air directly to the GPU and out the exhaust, but temps look fine at the moment, we'll see.

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I used MSI's Kombustor to stress the GPU for an hour, and as you can see the max temps reported by Afterburner (and Hardware Monitor) was around 75C (it plateaued there and wouldn't go higher, and in fact started to drop).

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View from bottom intake.

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View from top intake.

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I had some braided wire left over from suspending my Ninja and used it to brace the GPU sink as well. Instead of drooping down, it hangs perfectly parallel.

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Close!

Brendan
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About the SSD that is on a ledge in your case. Is that simply resting on the ledge or is it held in place with screws or some other way?
 
x509 said:
About the SSD that is on a ledge in your case. Is that simply resting on the ledge or is it held in place with screws or some other way?
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Most of lian li's new cases have mounts for 2.5" hdd's on the bottom now. Screws go in through the bottom of the case and secure the ssd in place.
 
Zoson said:
Most of lian li's new cases have mounts for 2.5" hdd's on the bottom now. Screws go in through the bottom of the case and secure the ssd in place.
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Yep, it's mounted to a plate, which uses thumbscrews to attach it to the floor of the case.
 
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