So have you done any ghetto cooling mods for your vid card?

[5150Joker]

I wasn't comfortable with leaving the voltage regulators and ram on my XTX without any sort of cooling so I decided I wanted a low cost cooling solution in place while I wait for my ramsinks. So after a little thought I came up with this ghetto solution which works surprisingly well - it lowered my core temps by 3-4 C during load and idle and the ram is nice and cool now as well:

GHETTO MOD:

-PCI bracket + zip ties to hold fan on the left
-Used two ice cream sticks + glue to attach second fan
-Purchased a fan speed adjustment device

Total cost: $10.00

Click for picture of ghetto XTX cooling mod



So what do you think?

 

[natto fire]

Were you able to O/C more? I would think that WC really helps with that, those are some big tubes.

 

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: Captain Howdy
Were you able to O/C more? I would think that WC really helps with that, those are some big tubes.

Haven't tested yet, I'll give it a go in a few mins. Those tubes are actually 7/16" tubes so they're a bit smaller than the typical 1/2" tubing. I guess they just look big in the pics and are big compared to the tiny stuff those pre-made kits ship with.

 

[Elfear]

Awesome mod Joker. I love ghetto solutions.

My brother and I strapped a 92mm Tornado onto the VF700 on his X1800XL with zipties. Keeps things very cool and he's at 668/702 with 1.2V on the core. Not too elaborate, but it was fun and worked pretty well.

 

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: Elfear
Awesome mod Joker. I love ghetto solutions.

My brother and I strapped a 92mm Tornado onto the VF700 on his X1800XL with zipties. Keeps things very cool and he's at 668/702 with 1.2V on the core. Not too elaborate, but it was fun and worked pretty well.

Heh sounds cool. So far this mod has helped the ram OC quite a bit more. During FEAR benchmarking I pushed it up to 870 mhz which is about 30 mhz higher than I was previously able to get it. Weird thing is though that I didn't see much of a performance gain by upping the memory bandwidth so I'm guessing FEAR would benefit more from core speed. The core maxes at 740ish in FEAR for now so hopefully an updated version of ATi OC utility is released with proper voltage detection and adjustment for X1900 cards.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker
I wasn't comfortable with leaving the voltage regulators and ram on my XTX without any sort of cooling so I decided I wanted a low cost cooling solution in place while I wait for my ramsinks. So after a little thought I came up with this ghetto solution which works surprisingly well - it lowered my core temps by 3-4 C during load and idle and the ram is nice and cool now as well:

GHETTO MOD:

-PCI bracket + zip ties to hold fan on the left
-Used two ice cream sticks + glue to attach second fan
-Purchased a fan speed adjustment device

Total cost: $10.00

Click for picture of ghetto XTX cooling mod



So what do you think?

man thats rad!

 

[tuteja1986]

awesome :! what kind of water cooling system do you use :?

 

[Steelski]

talkin bout the ghettoooo.........mmmmmmmmmmmmm the (forget lyrics) ghetto....
YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH.
nice solution. the blue light really hides the ghettoness.
I usually get ghetto fans from blown up PSU's the fans are all almost silent and move the air nice in the case. red wire to yello and black to black!

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker
I wasn't comfortable with leaving the voltage regulators and ram on my XTX without any sort of cooling so I decided I wanted a low cost cooling solution in place while I wait for my ramsinks. So after a little thought I came up with this ghetto solution which works surprisingly well - it lowered my core temps by 3-4 C during load and idle and the ram is nice and cool now as well:

GHETTO MOD:

-PCI bracket + zip ties to hold fan on the left
-Used two ice cream sticks + glue to attach second fan
-Purchased a fan speed adjustment device

Total cost: $10.00

Click for picture of ghetto XTX cooling mod



So what do you think?

Ghetto and looking good, thats sweet!

Ghetto thing i did was attaching a 80mm fan to a fx5200, 3 slot cooling anyone
Allowed me to overclock the thing quite a bit more, 320mhz from 250, and 470mhz from 333 on the memory. Diff it made in games, lol i think it looked like a quicker slideshow.

 

[christopherzombie]

In early 2003, I used 8 oz of Dr. Pepper and about 4 ice-cubes to liquid-cool my Sparkle GeForce FX 5600nu! ...OKay, cool isn't the right term, it was more like spill & fry. R.I.P 5600nu, you were a pile of crap anyway. <9000 in 3DMark2001se wasn't what I had hoped for when I spent $180.00. My ti4400 was gettin' 11000+. At least this gave me a reason to buy a S/U/M/A 9500pro w/ 2.8ns RAM. This card w/ an OCed XP2600+ T-Bred @ 2.4ghz, A7N8X, and 1GB of RAM was an awsome "budget" rig.