Using Corsair H60/80 as a GTX 670 cooler?

MissChief · 26 Jun 2013 at 23:43

I'm considering using one of the cheap recon Corsair H80's and replacing the cooler on my EVGA GTX670. The cooler is noisy as it's reference and I don't think it's fitted very well as the card has, on occasion, hit 98'C in BF3. :eek:

Does anyone have any experience of doing something like this? My case is a NZXT Lexa Blackline, would the Radiator and existing fan work together OK if I mounted them on the back of the case? There's not a huge amount of space in there should be enough to mount the radiator and fan onto the back of the case.

Any thoughts?

This guy did it with a 560 and H80

This guy did it with an Antec Kuhler on a 560 as well.

Hotwired · 26 Jun 2013 at 23:52

And why would you want to gently toast every component on your board that isn't the graphics chip by removing the active cooling on them.

Proper watercooling blocks cool everything, proper air cooling cools everything.

This cools one chip on the board.

IC3 · 26 Jun 2013 at 23:54

You could try, lots of people at Overclock.net forum did it to 78xx/79xx cards.
But wouldn't it be better to go for Gelid icy vision or Arctic twin turbo II?

MissChief · 27 Jun 2013 at 00:15

Hotwired said:
And why would you want to gently toast every component on your board that isn't the graphics chip by removing the active cooling on them.

Proper watercooling blocks cool everything, proper air cooling cools everything.

This cools one chip on the board.

I have an intake fan on the bottom of the case that is supposed to pull air in right below the graphics card intake but it made maybe a 2'C difference. That can blow air over the card chips for me.

The other option is flog it for £170 or so and pay £150 for a 770 with decent cooling.

Subliminal Aura · 27 Jun 2013 at 00:30

Hotwired said:
And why would you want to gently toast every component on your board that isn't the graphics chip by removing the active cooling on them.

Proper watercooling blocks cool everything, proper air cooling cools everything.

This cools one chip on the board.

^^^ This.... poor ram chips are going to get toasty

ubersonic · 27 Jun 2013 at 08:40

Hotwired said:
This cools one chip on the board.

The vid/pic in the OP is very outdated, this "issue" was fixed years ago:

pgi947 · 27 Jun 2013 at 09:03

Fairly sure ref 670 coolers don't have any contact with the vram chips anyhow :confused:

The only other part that is absolutely essential to keep cool is the vrm bank, which is what that fan in ubers pic is cooling.

The free solution is obviously just set an aggressive fan curve in afterburner...

TwsT · 27 Jun 2013 at 09:15

pgi947 said:
Fairly sure ref 670 coolers don't have any contact with the vram chips anyhow

The only other part that is absolutely essential to keep cool is the vrm bank, which is what that fan in ubers pic is cooling.

The free solution is obviously just set an aggressive fan curve in afterburner...

They have a separate cooler which is still on the board when you remove the cooler.

main reason i went 680 instead of 670

pgi947 · 27 Jun 2013 at 10:08

TwsT said:
They have a separate cooler which is still on the board when you remove the cooler.

main reason i went 680 instead of 670

Is that on all short pcb 670's? Had a quick image search, some do show a plate covering the vram and holding the fan, while others show no plate (just the cheapy looking in assembly) with the fan attached to the cooler housing and a small duct to direct airflow?

I went with a 680 pcb 670

TwsT · 27 Jun 2013 at 10:11

Edit

don't thnk the vram has any cooling think it's all on the other side checking now

Edit again

Vram is cooled by the block well the EK blocks at least.

they are so close to the cooler that this h80 idea is pretty weak. depends what you are doing I suppose. Certainly won't be much quieter a twin frozr would be a better choice.

the antec kuhler is noisey as heck so i fail to see why you would replace a reference cooler with somethign just as noisy

illuz · 27 Jun 2013 at 10:33

Just save for a full cooling system. Much better!

ubersonic · 27 Jun 2013 at 10:44

TwsT said:
the antec kuhler is noisey as heck so i fail to see why you would replace a reference cooler with somethign just as noisy

I believe people replace the stock fan ~~with gentle typhoon~~. Not sure how well it works with the 6xx series but on older gens I.E the 580 it allowed people to reduce noise and improve cooling performance.~~~~

TwsT · 27 Jun 2013 at 10:49

ubersonic said:
I believe people replace the stock fan ~~with gentle typhoon~~. Not sure how well it works with the 6xx series but on older gens I.E the 580 it allowed people to reduce noise and improve cooling performance.~~~~

but it's not just teh fans that are noisy the pump is too.

Seems like a lot of effort for little gains.

would be better to sell the card and buy a Vapor X 7950 they are superbly cool and quiet

Also on the full size 670 the ram chips aren't cooler at all well not on this kfa one in my hand