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DarkMonkey
Limp Gawd
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Long time reader, first time poster... hope you like this.
I was looking at my FX 5200 and noticed that the cooler is little more than a cage holding the fan in place, and decided to upgrade it... I pretty much make my mods up as I go along. I had a bunch of old parts laying around, and took an old p1 low profile heatsink.
Upon further examination, I noticed that there were some fins on the back that were preventing the heatsink from actually touching my GPU.
I didn't have a grinder, so I thought my project was shot... after about 15 minutes I realized that my house has a very massive grinding stone built into it... my concrete front porch. So I took my heatsink outside and spent about 45 minutes filing it down against the steps, the result...
I ran into another problem mounting it, I didn't have any way to bolt it on... I ended up lashing it in place with a guitar string, and it worked quite well. I put a peice of duct tape on the backside where the string went just in case it would short out anything.
I was originally going to use a 40mm fan I had laying around but then came across an old friend of mine, my old p3
Hope it works...
A perfect fit
Looks rather nice installed too.
Now the end result is cooling that's probably about 10x better (When you consider that the old cooler didn't even have fins) but I can't OC it any higher, I'm guessing my voltage isn't enough... any suggestions for a way to flash my card or something to raise my voltage (I can't afford a sautering gun so don't even bother suggesting it) so I can OC better would be greatly appreciated.
I was looking at my FX 5200 and noticed that the cooler is little more than a cage holding the fan in place, and decided to upgrade it... I pretty much make my mods up as I go along. I had a bunch of old parts laying around, and took an old p1 low profile heatsink.
Upon further examination, I noticed that there were some fins on the back that were preventing the heatsink from actually touching my GPU.
I didn't have a grinder, so I thought my project was shot... after about 15 minutes I realized that my house has a very massive grinding stone built into it... my concrete front porch. So I took my heatsink outside and spent about 45 minutes filing it down against the steps, the result...
I ran into another problem mounting it, I didn't have any way to bolt it on... I ended up lashing it in place with a guitar string, and it worked quite well. I put a peice of duct tape on the backside where the string went just in case it would short out anything.
I was originally going to use a 40mm fan I had laying around but then came across an old friend of mine, my old p3
Hope it works...
A perfect fit
Looks rather nice installed too.
Now the end result is cooling that's probably about 10x better (When you consider that the old cooler didn't even have fins) but I can't OC it any higher, I'm guessing my voltage isn't enough... any suggestions for a way to flash my card or something to raise my voltage (I can't afford a sautering gun so don't even bother suggesting it) so I can OC better would be greatly appreciated.
