iChill 1080 fans gone wrong

[Christian Collins]

Has anybody tried replacing the cooler on an iChill 1080 Herculez (or whatever fancy name they've given it)?

One of the fans has had it's bearings give out and it's triggered some strange behaviour in the GPU - the other fan now constantly spins at full whack and is reporting 0 RPM on any hardware sensor and I'm fairly sure the temps are under-reporting. Fairly sure it's also damaged the card somewhere as I get the occasional artifacting just before the windows 10 home screen boots.

I've been looking at the Arctic GPU cooler as a replacement (though loathe to try and use thermal epoxy as I don't have the faintest idea about what I'm doing) though I see a lot of comments about it really only being a suitable solution for FE cards.

Any other suggestions also welcome!

 

[GAC]

il make my normal suggestion, leave the existing heatsink on remove the old fans and strap on a couple 140mm fans with zip clips. job done. its not pretty but its damned effective.

 

[Christian Collins]

Ah the good ol' bodgit approach - to be honest I was considering it, though was a little hesitant as I have the motor skills of a banana haha

 

[GAC]

hahaha it maybe a bodge it to some but its proven to be a solid choice if you just want pure performance. and it shouldn't be too hard as all you're doing is zip clipping them on to the card. just have to make sure you know where you're sticking the fans power leads before you start ripping the old fans and plastic tat off.

 

[Christian Collins]

Let me put it this way, when I'm involved it's definitely going to look like a right bodge hahaha

I'm assuming you clip the fans against the heatsink and then plug them in to whatever fan slots/controllers you have on the mobo/elsewhere. Just out of curiosity, why would you go 140 over 120 - is it just the noise levels?

 

[GAC]

depends on you're heatsink but yeah slower larger fans are quieter. and also coverage if you have a wide card.

have a google plenty of guides out there to read over.

 

[Christian Collins]

Great, thanks for the heads up!

 

[Bantu]

Just going to chime in to say the fans will ideally get plugged into the card, not the motherboard. So look where the existing heatsink is plugged in

 

[Christian Collins]

Right, that would have made sense - like I said, practical skills of a banana haha