Hehehe I just made a Zalman type cooler for free!

[T9D]

Edit - no duh the picture doesn't work, this thread is almost 3 months old. Should read some of the posts before commenting . I have a 9700 pro now and put back on the stock fan on the ti 200 and gave it to my dad.

I've been trying to have super quiet rig. I had this heatsink laying around from my intel I replaced so I thought what the heck lets have some fun. So I drilled two holes in the heatsink and used some thermal grease and attached it. Ran 3dmarks fine. Plays games fine. Seems to work good. Gets really hot to the touch but the video never freezes. I also had my card overclocked to high heaven. I took it down a bit now though. Don't want to take any chances. I could always stick a slow and quiet 80mm fan over it if I needed to. Put an adjuster on a fan and turn it super low and it'd be pretty much silent still. Right now the loudest thing in my case is my harddrive

(oh yeah this is on a geforce 3).

 

[FearoftheNight]

Originally posted by: xerosleep
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I've been trying to have super quiet rig. I had this heatsink laying around from my intel I replaced so I thought what the heck lets have some fun. So I drilled two holes in the heatsink and used some thermal grease and attached it. Ran 3dmarks fine. Plays games fine. Seems to work good. Gets really hot to the touch but the video never freezes. I also had my card overclocked to high heaven. I took it down a bit now though. Don't want to take any chances. I could always stick a slow and quiet 80mm fan over it if I needed to. Put an adjuster on a fan and turn it super low and it'd be pretty much silent still. Right now the loudest thing in my case is my harddrive

(oh yeah this is on a geforce 3)

To quote!
Hey aren't you afriad your thing is gonna fall off and take 1/2 ur card with it?

 

[T9D]

It's aluminum

 

[nick1985]

your brave

 

[nRollo]

Two things:
1. Zalman has a heatpipe to actively transfer heat away from gpu
2. They only cost $30, and you spent how much time on this?

 

[Blooz1]

And on the opposite end of the scale, you've got THIS !!!!!

This guy used an SK-6/50CFM fan!

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Blooz1
And on the opposite end of the scale, you've got <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182081" target=blank>THIS</A> !!!!!

This guy used an SK-6/50CFM fan!

thats friggin sweet

 

[poMONKey]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: Blooz1
And on the opposite end of the scale, you've got <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182081" target=blank>THIS</A> !!!!!

This guy used an SK-6/50CFM fan!

thats friggin sweet

ditto!

 

[Blooz1]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: Blooz1 And on the opposite end of the scale, you've got THIS !!!!! This guy used an SK-6/50CFM fan!

thats friggin sweet

Yeah, if you stick a 2x4 underneath it, and wear those headphone type ear protectors!

 

[T9D]

Originally posted by: Rollo
Two things:
1. Zalman has a heatpipe to actively transfer heat away from gpu
2. They only cost $30, and you spent how much time on this?

1. Has way better cooling fins so it doesn't need the heatpipe
2. probably took half the time than it would have to put a zalman on (plus the time I saved to go buy it)
3. It was FREE and WORKS.

Don't be so negitive.

 

[DieHardware]

Thats not a knife-errr...HS-this is!

 

[nRollo]

This whole "quiet pc" fad is just that. Passive cooling is not as effective as active, so I know what i would rather have.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Blooz1
And on the opposite end of the scale, you've got <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182081" target=blank>THIS</A> !!!!!

This guy used an SK-6/50CFM fan!

LOL. Can we say, "obsess much?"....

 

[m1ke101]

very nicely done

 

[loafbred]

I did something similar to my GF3 Ti 200, but I used a retail Intel Pentium III cooler w/fan. It ran at 266 core without a problem, but blocked two PCI slots. That aluminum is hard to drill.

 

[isaacmacdonald]

Originally posted by: Blooz1
And on the opposite end of the scale, you've got <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182081" target=blank>THIS</A> !!!!!

This guy used an SK-6/50CFM fan!

wow. that's retarded.

 

[T9D]

Woe someone bumped this! Haha I didn't even realize it was my thread and was like "cool I want to check it out" lol.

I have a 9700 pro now

I put back the stock fan on the ti 200 and gave it to my dad.

 

[BoomAM]

Link doesnt work.

 

[Tab]

Originally posted by: BoomAM
Link doesnt work.

 

[Corporate Thug]

404 - Not Found.
The requested file could not be found by the web server

 

[Cesar]

Originally posted by: Blooz1
And on the opposite end of the scale, you've got THIS !!!!! This guy used an SK-6/50CFM fan!

ahaha this guy is crazy but still its awesome