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that looks like an asus 1070 dual card.

you will see there is a black heatsink,that is the VRM's under there,i think if you can fit the new cooler with that inplace I would leave it on assuming the new cooler is not a custom design to fit that card specifically.

the black squares are the memory chips,normally you would put some small square heatsinks on those,especially if your overclocking but since the stock 1070 doesn't come with those I don't think it will hurt too much if you don't have any.
 
Okay well going by videos the thermal pads go on the opposite side to these components and then the black heatsink goes straight onto the thermal pads so I definitely have to put thermal pads on.. Perhaps I dont need the black heatsink?

Been using this video as a rough guide
 
that black heatsink already has a thermal pad under it..is the new cooler a generic fits all cooler or one designed for the card you have?
 
fastboy said:
that black heatsink already has a thermal pad under it..is the new cooler a generic fits all cooler or one designed for the card you have?
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It is made to fit this card too so that heat sink won't get in the way, p.s. thanks very much for your help I thought I'd never finish it before bed time (work nights).
 
Well it's all installed and working and it just about fit in my case :S but unfortunately one of the fans is wobbling and the other has an intermittent faint sound like a cricket when it is running at idle :(

Is there a way to stop these fans at idle?
 
well im pretty sure you cant turn the fans off completely unless you have the bios updated like I did,you can set a profile in msi afterburner to start at 25% fan speed tho and ramp up from there but I always run a minimum of 25% fan speed just to keep the vrms and memory chips cool as well.
 
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well im pretty sure you cant turn the fans off completely unless you have the bios updated like I did,you can set a profile in msi afterburner to start at 25% fan speed tho and ramp up from there but I always run a minimum of 25% fan speed just to keep the vrms and memory chips cool as well.
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Okay thanks, my custom made cooler with case fans plus my stock cooler always stopped at idle, strange... well the fans keep the gpu cool in my games which is good, I just have to order another and swap the faulty fan heat sink part over and send that back which is a pain.

They keep speeding up and slowing down too when idle.
 
Plus seeing as it's such a good cooler I have ordered some cables to connect the fans to a Noctua fan controller so I can just change the speed myself.
 
doyll said:
Maybe look at stock cooler to figure out where it contacted board components to get an idea where heatsinks need to go. ;)
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I did all of that but I've ordered a replacement due to the wobbly fan lol.. This thing revs up intermittently under idle speed too I guess to keep it cool but its annoying so deciding weather to manually control the fan seeing as it's relatively quiet at even 100% or to buy two mini GPU extensions so I can just pull them apart when not playing games. P.S. I didn't realise this thing would over hand length wise so much, I think I had literally a centre metre of space left, so lucky ha.
 
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Is it normal for these fans to intermittently rev up (roughly 50%) when idling at a low rpm? I am not sure why they spin at all when idle as my stock fans would stay off.

I notice it speeds up when browsing too sometimes (might be coincidence).
 
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I would have thought they should act just like the stock fans, make sure the connector is seated properly. Or do what i did with my old accelero and install Speedfan and just set them to low rpm and see how temps are. Even set to just 30% they were still better cooling by magnitudes than the stock cooler.
 
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I would have thought they should act just like the stock fans, make sure the connector is seated properly. Or do what i did with my old accelero and install Speedfan and just set them to low rpm and see how temps are. Even set to just 30% they were still better cooling by magnitudes than the stock cooler.
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Hmmm, it's very odd indeed and I agree that it should just act the same and not even run at idle, I will try what you said. I don't even want them running at all at idle.
 
Okay So I will have to accept that they will always be running at idle for what ever reason and I have set the fan speed from the minimum of 0% speed to the minimum of 30% speed with MSI Afterburner and the speed of the fans have not changed which is good and it has also stopped revving up randomly and it's silent so I am happy now :) Cheers for your help.

Spoke too soon lol, I think I will just stick to the Noctua fan controller or the old fashioned disconnect between games and desktop use, for what ever reason the fans are trying to keep the GPU from exceeding 25oC when my old stock fans and my Noctua case fan botched job both turned off when idle.
 
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Before going down that route id be in touch with Arctic's support asking what the deal is with it not stopping at idle and the revving(although i think the revving must be temp related)

I take it you have watched the temp in Afterburner to see when exactly the revving starts?
 
Grandmaster Fap! said:
Before going down that route id be in touch with Arctic's support asking what the deal is with it not stopping at idle and the revving(although i think the revving must be temp related)

I take it you have watched the temp in Afterburner to see when exactly the revving starts?
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I have checked and the fan revs up when at 27oC it never goes above that temperature, I will contact them and I will be sending the fans part back anyway as one of the fans are wobbling a bit, I have ordered a new one to replace it.

Nice cooler though heat test with 100% gpu usage for an hour and the GPU stayed at 50oC with the fans running at 45% and I reckon that the room temperature is 40oc or so with the ole electric heater pumping out at the moment.
 
just set a custom profile in afterburner then you can choose when and where you want the fans to ramp up,its pretty easy.

click on the settings button just below the fan speed slider,2nd tab,enable user defined software and set the graph and save
 
I just used the supplied heatsink plaster, left it for an hour in a warm room and then fit the cooler, I used mx4 but then again I always use it as iv got loads of it and I know it works. Nothing has fell off etc, no need to use any thermal pads, I hate them as they're pretty damn useless mostly, only the good ones that cost a pretty penny have any decent heat transfer and I'm much happier with Tim/plaster. Quiet and really good for thermals, better than my amp extreme cooler! Only thing iv noticed is this coolers fans run at 100% when the card is only pushing 40-50% voltage
 
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