[BB] The Pirate
Limp Gawd
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- Jul 1, 2003
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I was sitting at work the other day and was trying to think of really effective aftermarket cooling solutions for my 9800XT and I thought what could be better then a processor cooler? So I took my stock 2.8C heatsink that came with my processor and decided to figure out a way to attach it to my XT.
Here is what I came up with.
http://www.freewebs.com/thejackal1229/Top Side1.JPG
http://www.freewebs.com/thejackal1229/Top Side2.JPG
http://www.freewebs.com/thejackal1229/Back Side showing plate.JPG
http://www.freewebs.com/thejackal1229/Inside with Mod.JPG
Basically what I did was just make sure that it fit on the board properly and to my luck it did... But barely. Then I made marks on the back side of the heat sink where the holes in the ATI board where. I then just drilled the holes in the heatsink. I didn't want the metal bolts to actually touch the XT so I got some rubber washers and cut them down a bit so they didn't stick out as much.
As you can see all worked out pretty good. Any XT owner can vouch for the fact that the back of this card gets very hot after playing games but now it barely gets warm. I don't have any temperature readings yet but isn't there a program out there for ATI that will get the temps?
What do you guys think of the mod? I think it looks pretty decent; I did a fairly good job with the resources that I had. It looks much heavier then it really is. The Intel Stock heatsinks are fairly light.
Here is what I came up with.
http://www.freewebs.com/thejackal1229/Top Side1.JPG
http://www.freewebs.com/thejackal1229/Top Side2.JPG
http://www.freewebs.com/thejackal1229/Back Side showing plate.JPG
http://www.freewebs.com/thejackal1229/Inside with Mod.JPG
Basically what I did was just make sure that it fit on the board properly and to my luck it did... But barely. Then I made marks on the back side of the heat sink where the holes in the ATI board where. I then just drilled the holes in the heatsink. I didn't want the metal bolts to actually touch the XT so I got some rubber washers and cut them down a bit so they didn't stick out as much.
As you can see all worked out pretty good. Any XT owner can vouch for the fact that the back of this card gets very hot after playing games but now it barely gets warm. I don't have any temperature readings yet but isn't there a program out there for ATI that will get the temps?
What do you guys think of the mod? I think it looks pretty decent; I did a fairly good job with the resources that I had. It looks much heavier then it really is. The Intel Stock heatsinks are fairly light.