The new, but not improved GTX 660 Ti ITX Mod!

[TheSLSAMG]

NOW INTRODUCING THE NEW NVIDIA GTX 660 Ti ITX (SLS-660TiGTX-2G-ITX). NOW AVAILABLE FROM FUTURE SHOP AND CIRCUIT CITY FOR ZAR123,456,789.10. #TEAMGREEN

 

In all seriousness though, I have a reference design NVIDIA GTX 660 Ti from EVGA. It's a decent card, puts up a good fight against my R9 270X. I've decided to make some changes to it though. In the interests of temps and size, I wanted to change the cooling setup on the card. However, I didn't know where to start. But then, @givingtnt came to the rescue with an idea. Why not pull the reference cooler off and put on some fans? Made enough sense to me, so that's exactly what I did.

 

 

That's what the card looks like with no shroud or blower fan. The heatsinks aren't the biggest I've ever seen, but they'll do. Maybe I'll figure out something else in the future. Now I need some fans. I browsed on Newegg for like 20 minutes, did some tape-measure measurements and it dawned on me. I have a Node 304, it has 92mm fans. 92mm fans should be perfect. I got my case, pulled two fans and taped them together with Gorilla Tape. It holds rather well, more solid than I could have asked for.

 

 

How do I secure the fans then? My first test-fit was done with tape, but it didn't hold well because of the card's shape. So I got my hot glue gun, noticed there wasn't much glue left in it and I found a chopstick to push it through with. Job done.

 

 

It isn't the prettiest thing in the world, nor is it the thinnest. I want to know from any Elite 110 owners, how much space is there from the area where the PCB of the card would be to the side panel? If it fits, it sits and I make the Pentium ITX. If not, I'll get some slim fans and try again. For temps, after testing with Unigine Valley and having the fans at max speed (they're still pretty quiet), I achieved load temps of around 75C. It's not that amazing, but not too shabby either. I will probably find some higher performance fans. It's still better than the stock cooler's around 80C though.

 

Bonus: My PC now, sans HDD. HDD is kill, liek s0 kill.