a classic question for old school shuttle users!

[Steeps]

well i've killed off another fan on my 9600xt in my sb75g2, after my 120mm fan project failed i went back to using the stock cooler as the iceberq4 i had on originally has RUSTED and they both sound like the bearings have gone (iceberq = completely, stock only on startup, but its getting worse)

so the age old question, what replacement cooler shall i use?

if its going to cost more than £15 i might as well buy a passive graphics card, but i have been toying with the idea of using heatpipes again but its too time consuming and i'm fresh out of heatpipes (cant bend the ones i already have due to too much bending already)

another idea is to try and run the card passive and get a new 92mm fan for my blowhole (sits over the agp/pci area) and hope i don't toast it. but i'd need to salvage a new heatsink for this.

 

[cokecan]

ah, what happened with the 120mm fan project? i was following it from the begennin but must have missed the end? it looked v.promising

btw, how much were you able to bend the heatpipes?

arctic cooler and hole cut out the side of the case always works well and looks cool. i've done it on all my shuttles with diff flavours of g-cards

the stock fan on the 9600XT is very similar to the 9800pro one isnt it? the small aluminium square kinda thing? I'd imagine you could use a big copper cpu heatsink on it, but cut it up to fit how you want it. there could be a chance of it even being able to run passive if you can get a big enough piece of heatsink to fit, but if not all it would need is a slow moving fan over or near it (ya blowhole fan maybe?)

 

[Steeps]

i'll try and grab some pics of what i have around.

image of the card, tiny little fan which is much quieter than a stock 9800 brick of a heatsink, gets warm to the touch.

i don't want to use an arctic silencer because the SB75's have the sexy grills iand i travel a lot with this shuttle, always putting it in a bag etc so i can't have something sticking out of it.

i can normally get a 90' bend out of a heatpipe, this one was 180' but i moved it back to fit in with a freezer in my media box, unfortunately the card in there has died (9800pro but was a bargain anyway) as i've found out, so i'm tempted to take out the card, put the 96 in there and get a new cheap passive card for my shuttle.

as i've already moved the heatpipe once i don't want to bend again as i don't want to snap, i've also toyed with the shuttle ICE pipes to get a good 90' curve when i was working on the project, but i don't have enough room in the case to do that for a card... or maybe i can, i'll have to look into it.

nope just looked at the placement of the caps, if i could get some really short pipes i could extend the h/s to the right hand side of the card (got ~83mm space there, enough for some ice fins and a fan) or to the top and round, but i don't have tight enough pipes for that. another option is the thermalright gpu cooler that i've seen on a competitors site however at £35 i could just buy a passive card.

 

[Steeps]

i've done it, its not pretty.... well actually its great just booted it up now!

will post some pics later

 

[Steeps]

some teaser pics

re-using ice heatpipes and fins, bent slightly to get a 90' curve, the block is from an aerocool vm101

the space it has to fit in... can you see where this is going?

 

[Steeps]

forgot the rest of the pics

card and cooler connected. this will be fun getting in the box!

had to take the heatpipes off to fit in the shuttle but it got in eventually. shows the pipes over the sata ports.

fits like a glove. the fins are also helping slightly with harddisk cooling, the card hardly pumps out heat, the block is very cool to the touch.

only fans running is a 7v papst and the 2 default 40mm's in the PSU, not going to mod them again as i want to keep the PSU as cool as possible and that requires the airflow.

 

[gt_junkie]

That looks ace!

gt