My Noctua filled Case - RTX2080TI Raijintek Morpheus Air Mod

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I have been recently fancying an upgrade on the stock cooler on my Zotac RTX2080TI

I was reading a little which seemed to indicate one of these would fit reasonably well.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/raijintek-morpheus-ii-core-black-heatpipe-vga-cooler-hs-028-rt.html

I purchased one plus a couple of Noctua fans, fitted it and all went reasonably smoothly. Dropped from fairly high 70-80c to around 40-50c and basically complete silence.

Seems a fairly worthwhile mod. Now my computer is completely filled with Noctua fans...

 

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Been thinking about this today last night my zotac 1080 fan became unbearable and i realized ocuk listed it just as 5yr warranty. So i never registered the gpu and i now know ocuk were wrong it is just two years unless you register within 28days. Heck i think it sat in a box for 30days before i built the damm thing!


Anyways Linus did one like this but he took off the plastic to reveal his heatsink like mine and yours can have 120mm noctua fans cable tied on. The issue is getting only the plastic off and reselling to someone who will need 2x 4pin fan power headers for the fans. You can get 100-140cmf from two 120mm onto the same heatsink zotac use but with vastly superior fans. But it still leaves me with a sour taste as i realized the mistakes on thier listing cause me to lose three years on my warranty and resale value.


Gpu sag is also an issue for me with Zotac AMP cards its bad now what it would be like with that thing you put on i do not know. I would seriously think about this by the way warping the PCB is no joke!

The weight of the old heat-sync and the new heat-sync is actually pretty similar. The old one was surprisingly decent, it just had 3 inches of thermal paste and obviously pretty naff fans which didn't help.

 

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How do i get the plastic off then so i can cable tie two 3000rpm Noctua to them? I like the sound of whooshing air so considering i only have one fan and no warranty i need to fix this in an easy way. I am not up for a cooler mod i just need the bare silver heatsink and like linus i can cable tie two 120mm Noctua on there.


The Zotac AMP plastic though is this just screws on the side? And the backplate remains on right? I would appreciate some help as i never tried this and do not want to mess it up.

This bit is dead easy, there are about 4 tiny screws around the edges of the plastic shroud then a small bit of force and I believe it should pop off. You will have more difficulty removing the fan cables which are wedged under the stock HSF, but it is possible with a smaller tool.

You will also need a couple of these for your new fans.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ek-water-blocks-ek-cable-pwm-fan-adapter-for-gpu-50cm-wc-9d9-ek.html

Or some much shorter ones likely available elsewhere.