Home made video card cooler

[CrazeD]

I cant tell if you're being sarcastic or not because it really looks horrible lol. Anyways, thanx. And its really not that hard to do. You just hot-glue 2 5.25" drive bay covers together, cut out an 80mm square/circle, hot-glue fan and grill to it, and voila! It took me all of 10 minutes and it works great. If people are really interestd, Ill write a lil' tut with pics and everything

It took like an hour to make mine... I went really slow with a coping saw, cause I don't have a holesaw that big.

 

[Mentali$T]

lol i wasnt being sarcastic. and if u could make that little tutorial that would be god cos i want to do it! that looks the same crazed but is prob more secure now yea? i hav finished mine now and put it in and looks good now. ill post pics 2mo. (its quarter to 12am here lol)

 

[CrazeD]

Yeah it looks kind of the same, but it's a better design (I think anyway).

 

[Mentali$T]

yea it is. is there any way you can straighten it up? or is it meant to be like that. i spose as its 80mm fan its better cos it blows on center of the card.

 

[CrazeD]

I was trying to make it blow on the GPU as much as I could, before it hit the capacitor on the motherboard.

 

[Mentali$T]

yea cool. glad u started this thread now i can oc' some. we should post more mod ideas here.

 

[CrazeD]

I used to get artifacts at about 470MHz core, from 395MHz.. lets see if I can hit 500 now.

 

[CrazeD]

Well, I got to 485MHz core and 320MHz mem.

 

[Mentali$T]

At default the core is set to 400 and mem at 250. Im getting same temps now at 465 and 260. I will up some more but will start to get artifacts probably.

 

[CrazeD]

I wish I had a temp sensor on my card, I'd really like to see how much of a difference it made.

How much difference did it make for you?