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Inspired by the Frankenstein GPU Cooling video I decided to make my own version with the RX 5700 XT I already had, and a Scythe Mugen V CPU cooler.
Since I had the room in my case I figured that it would be a nice option to keep it quiet.
 
TL;DR?
scroll all the way to the bottom to the last picture. That's the final result
 
My system
I have the following parts (currently)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Scythe Ninja 5 Motherboard: MSI X570-A Pro Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D PSU: Corsair RM650 (2019) SSD: Kingston A2000 500GB GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X Case: Corsair Graphite 600T The plan
I like big air coolers (and I cannot lie), hence the Scythe Ninja 5 on my CPU. So the goal was to get quite a big CPU cooler on the Graphics card as well. Also works magic for heat capacity and dissipation.
To keep cost a little bit in mind, I settled on a Scythe Mugen V PCGH edition. I've used Scythe coolers for a long time now, they've never disappointed me.
 
Prep
Get all the stuff together. I figured I needed some heatsinks for the VRM and vRAM, so I ordered those in advance. Together with thermal compound, isopropyl alcohol, gpu-pwm fan cable adapter and thermal adhesive tape. That last one is to stick the heatsinks to the VRM and vRAM.
 
Also: I have a bit of a workshop in my garage. You'll want a drill press, angle grinder, vise, and ideally a bench grinder.
 
The magic
Well, The start is basically pulling your GPU apart. Not very difficult thus far, mostly interesting to see how they built and cooled this thing.
Her it is without cooling, a MSI RX 5700XT Gaming X:

 
 
Then to fit the bracket:

 
The bracket needed new mounting holes, as well as the cross bar that pushes down the cooler on the die. Relatively easy with a bench press, although the metal used is quite durable I must say. Good quality from Scythe
 
After that it's basically fitting and glue-ing the heatsinks to all the chips (TIP: check where the default cooler had thermal pads to see what needs cooling):

 
And slap the fans on, with the adapter to the GPU-fan plug:

 
Final installation
Note that the fans are on sideways. This is intentional (well, now it is at least) since it wouldn't fit against the motherboard otherwise. It would then effectively block all other fan headers on the board, and the fins would touch all sorts of stuff which made me fear shorting something.
 
It's quite a big thing now:

 
By moving the PSU to the (unused) drive bay, there is space for this huge cooler now:

 
Upgrade 1: vRAM cooling
Probably not really necessary, but I wanted to cool the vRAM the same as the other chips, so I bought more copper. removed the top cooling plate and custom cooled the vRAM:
(bending the pins was needed for space)

 
 
Upgrade 2: make my own 'case'
As you can clearly see, there is a lot of cooling tower in that case. I went through all the trouble of building it, so why not show it off more?
Also: the CPU cooler is still hanging from the motherboard, clinging on for dear life. I'd like both coolers in the same orientation. So I decided to build my own rig to make it better. Added in a PCI-e riser cable to make it work, and ended up with this:

 
Results: Silence and performance!
I currently run the highest that AMD let's you overclock this thing. Which is 2150 MHz at a power limit of +20%. VRAM is at 1800 MHz, since I get a screen flicker above that.
The temps never exceed 75 degrees (Celsius) at any load. (except junction temps when it's boosting, but that seems to be OK)
 
But the best thing is the silence! I have it on my desk, next to my head, and all I can hear is a bit of coil whine. But NO FANS whatsoever!
 
The End
Let me know what you think!

If you need the form factor to fit in a case, yes. Otherwise what you have now is equally effective imo, just be sure to have a heatsink on the other components as necessary 
Well, its two noctuas running. Its pretty darn quiet, but the full story lies in how effectively ALL the components are cooled, and as you saw in the video inadequate component cooling isn't a good idea - that PCB got really hot, really fast, and I wouldn't recommend running without heatsinks epoxied on the components or otherwise. The strix cooler, while louder, effectively cools everything, and that's saying something. 

TL:DR and Temps at the bottom.
 
 
A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across the Morpheus II cooler and grabbed it on a whim. I had never seen an aftermarket GPU air cooler and read some good things about it. Why not buy one and have something new to play with? I figured worst case, I wasted $85 (after shipping from the UK) More likely it'll be quieter, at least. But maybe it'll perform better and let me push my card a bit further, although I was a little worried about vrm and memory temps. Sapphire's cooler works well in that department, especially if you sacrifice some noise. But it really hits a wall with die temps. I found extreme diminishing returns above 50% fan speed, and it screams like a banshee.
 
 
I decided to use 2 Noctua P12 redux fans. I would have liked to try some Arctic P12s, as I've heard good things about them, but I had the Noctuas already. That 5 pack of Arctic's for $30 on Amazon is tempting though... I also purchased some alphacool copper heatsinks for the VRMs and RAM (10x10 and 14x14), but I wasn't sure if they would fit under the Morpheus.
 
 
I did everything in steps to establish how much each change affected temperature. My temperature benchmark was Furmark at 1440p with all stock GPU settings, except fan curve. Case fans were locked at my max curve speed, 60%. I let Furmark run until temps settled out, but at least 15 minutes. My ambient temperatures will be noted, but are usually at 70F +/- 2 degrees. I also pulled the cooler when I got the card just to look at the cooler design, and repasted with Noctua H2 paste so it isn't technically stock. I found no temperature change from the repaste though.
 
 
Evening One: I pulled the backplate and fan shroud, then mounted the two P12s with some zip ties to the stock cooler and started up Furmark. The first thing I noticed was that the new fans are roughly equal in noise at full speed to the stock fans at about 40%, and with a lower pitch sound that I prefer. I ran my stock fan curve at 50% max and was satisfied with temps but not with noise, so this alone was a great upgrade for me. Memory temps saw a nice improvement at the same noise level, but not compared to stock fans at 50%. I noticed that die temps were pretty close. Fan speed maxed on the stock fans gives similar die temps to 50%, but I never paid close attention to memory or vrm temps at high stock fan speeds.
 
Evening Two: I pulled the card all the way apart and started test fitting the included heatsinks to the memory chips and VRMs etc. Unfortunately the Morpheus didn't come with enough of the right size/shape Heatsinks to apply to the RAM, VRM and various other chips that the stock sapphire cooler contacts. The Alphacool heatsinks hadn't come yet, so I applied 1mm Thermal Grizzly minus 8 pads to the chips and reinstalled the stock cooler with the Morpheus included thermal compound. I wanted to see if there was any difference in thermal pad quality. The Morpheus thermal compound gave me about 5C higher temps and a larger Delta between junction and average temps, so I decided to pull the cooler again and repaste. After some isopropyl and gentle scrubbing with a soft toothbrush to clean the extra goop off, I repasted with some older Noctua H1 I had left over. Disaster! It wouldn't post. After clearing CMOS and reseating the GPU, I was worried I killed the card somehow. I would get the Aorus splash screen, then reboot. Couldn't  enter bios as well. It was late and I headed to bed. I would do troubleshooting the next evening.
 
Evening Three: I had a stroke of luck, my tower booted up and everything was normal. My first guess was some unevaporated Iso had been causing an issue. Junction temps ended up even worse than with the Morpheus Paste. I thought I had a mounting pressure issue or bad paste job. Pulled the cooler again, paste looked good but I believe I zip tied my fans too tightly and tweaked the cooler and PCB just enough to mess with die contact. Cleaned the board up and started prepping for copper heatsink application. When cleaning again, I found that Iso will wick under the PCB layer around the die and takes some encouragement to dry/get out of there. I got as much out/dry as I could with compressed nitrogen.
 
Evening Four: Alphacool heatsinks arrived. They definitely get a thumbs up from me. Well packaged, well made and not too expensive. The RAM heatsinks won't clear the cooler in all places though. Heatpipes and mounting hardware interfere somewhat. I attempted to use a bandsaw to trim the heatsinks quickly… I don't recommend it. Once you hit the fins, they bend/bind and rip the heatsink out of your holding implement. A very fine saw might work, especially hand powered, but I don't have one. I then switched to tin snips, and while it's not the prettiest, it's functional. Most of the fins I could simply bend out of the way, but some required trimming. I don't love the VRM solution Morpheus provides, but it works. I couldn't find a copper VRM heatsink and the copper ones I have are too big. Once the heatsinks were trimmed and passed test fitment, it was on to attaching them. I used the included double sided "thermal tape" with pretty good luck. There is plenty of extra to use if you mess up or if it moves and touches you etc. Once they were all attached, I applied conformal coating (2 coats) to the die area in preparation for TG Conductonaut.
 
Evening Six: Getting close! Heatsinks attached and seem well adhered. Conformal coating is dry and everything is ready for the cooler to be mounted. Spread TG Conductonaut on the die and cooler and mounted to the card. Attached fans with included clips (which kind of suck and barely hold the fans on) and seated the card. On to final testing!
 
Wow. This cooler is impressive! Memory and VRM temps are a bit higher, but those die temps! Played with overclocking the card and was thoroughly impressed with temperatures. I am running the same OC I did before but with power limit increased to 25%.
 
I don't love the memory and VRM temps, I want better performance everywhere. I found Arctic makes a thermal adhesive, and reports say when cut with their same version of thermal paste (Arctic Alumina), you can make a semi permanent bond. The adhesive is rated at 8 w/mK, which is the same as the Thermal Grizzly thermal pads I have and the material layer will be thinner.
 
If anyone has a source for a good copper GPU VRM heatsink, let me know. The aluminum one is fine, but it's aluminum and not copper. I'm going to purchase more low profile RAM heatsinks as well so I can get rid of a couple of my hacked up ones.
 
TL:DR
 
I wanted to try to improve the temps on my Sapphire Pulse 5700XT with new fans and a custom cooler. Performed tests at each stage.
 
All tests done with case fans locked and stock GPU bios with only GPU fan speed being modified/held. Furmark was ran until temps stabilized, then HWInfo reset and recorded for 5 minutes.
 
Stock Card - 40% Fan Speed
Ambient Temp: 70F
GPU Temp: 74C
GPU Junction Temp: 87C
Memory Junction Temp: 88C
VRM Temp: 75C
Average Clock Speed: 1803Mhz
Average Power Draw: 193W
 
Stock Card - 50% Fan Speed
Ambient Temp: 70F
GPU Temp: 71C
GPU Junction Temp: 84C
Memory Junction Temp: 82C
VRM Temp: 69C
Average Clock Speed: 1808Mhz
ASIC Power Draw: 193W
 
2 Noctua P12 Redux on stock cooler - 100% Fan Speed
Ambient Temp: 71F
GPU Temp: 71C
GPU Junction Temp: 85C
Memory Junction Temp: 84C
VRM Temp: 69C
Average Clock Speed: 1811Mhz
ASIC Power Draw: 193W
 
Morpheus Core II Stock Settings
Ambient Temp: 74C
GPU Temp: 53C
GPU Junction Temp: 65C
Memory Junction Temp: 88C
VRM Temp: 70C
Average Clock Speed: 1819Mhz
Average Power Draw: 193W
 
Morpheus Core II High Power Limit OC
Ambient Temp: 74F
GPU Temp: 61C
GPU Junction Temp: 80C
Memory Junction Temp: 96C
VRM Temp: 88C
Average Clock Speed: 2060Mhz
Average Power Draw: 255W
 
 
 
 
 

Inspired by the Frankenstein GPU Cooling video I decided to make my own version with the RX 5700 XT I already had, and a Scythe Mugen V CPU cooler.
Since I had the room in my case I figured that it would be a nice option to keep it quiet.
 
TL;DR?
scroll all the way to the bottom to the last picture. That's the final result
 
My system
I have the following parts (currently)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Scythe Ninja 5 Motherboard: MSI X570-A Pro Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D PSU: Corsair RM650 (2019) SSD: Kingston A2000 500GB GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X Case: Corsair Graphite 600T The plan
I like big air coolers (and I cannot lie), hence the Scythe Ninja 5 on my CPU. So the goal was to get quite a big CPU cooler on the Graphics card as well. Also works magic for heat capacity and dissipation.
To keep cost a little bit in mind, I settled on a Scythe Mugen V PCGH edition. I've used Scythe coolers for a long time now, they've never disappointed me.
 
Prep
Get all the stuff together. I figured I needed some heatsinks for the VRM and vRAM, so I ordered those in advance. Together with thermal compound, isopropyl alcohol, gpu-pwm fan cable adapter and thermal adhesive tape. That last one is to stick the heatsinks to the VRM and vRAM.
 
Also: I have a bit of a workshop in my garage. You'll want a drill press, angle grinder, vise, and ideally a bench grinder.
 
The magic
Well, The start is basically pulling your GPU apart. Not very difficult thus far, mostly interesting to see how they built and cooled this thing.
Her it is without cooling, a MSI RX 5700XT Gaming X:

 
 
Then to fit the bracket:

 
The bracket needed new mounting holes, as well as the cross bar that pushes down the cooler on the die. Relatively easy with a bench press, although the metal used is quite durable I must say. Good quality from Scythe
 
After that it's basically fitting and glue-ing the heatsinks to all the chips (TIP: check where the default cooler had thermal pads to see what needs cooling):

 
And slap the fans on, with the adapter to the GPU-fan plug:

 
Final installation
Note that the fans are on sideways. This is intentional (well, now it is at least) since it wouldn't fit against the motherboard otherwise. It would then effectively block all other fan headers on the board, and the fins would touch all sorts of stuff which made me fear shorting something.
 
It's quite a big thing now:

 
By moving the PSU to the (unused) drive bay, there is space for this huge cooler now:

 
Upgrade 1: vRAM cooling
Probably not really necessary, but I wanted to cool the vRAM the same as the other chips, so I bought more copper. removed the top cooling plate and custom cooled the vRAM:
(bending the pins was needed for space)

 
 
Upgrade 2: make my own 'case'
As you can clearly see, there is a lot of cooling tower in that case. I went through all the trouble of building it, so why not show it off more?
Also: the CPU cooler is still hanging from the motherboard, clinging on for dear life. I'd like both coolers in the same orientation. So I decided to build my own rig to make it better. Added in a PCI-e riser cable to make it work, and ended up with this:

 
Results: Silence and performance!
I currently run the highest that AMD let's you overclock this thing. Which is 2150 MHz at a power limit of +20%. VRAM is at 1800 MHz, since I get a screen flicker above that.
The temps never exceed 75 degrees (Celsius) at any load. (except junction temps when it's boosting, but that seems to be OK)
 
But the best thing is the silence! I have it on my desk, next to my head, and all I can hear is a bit of coil whine. But NO FANS whatsoever!
 
The End
Let me know what you think!

Inspired by the Frankenstein GPU Cooling video I decided to make my own version with the RX 5700 XT I already had, and a Scythe Mugen V CPU cooler.
Since I had the room in my case I figured that it would be a nice option to keep it quiet.
 
TL;DR?
scroll all the way to the bottom to the last picture. That's the final result
 
My system
I have the following parts (currently)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Scythe Ninja 5 Motherboard: MSI X570-A Pro Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D PSU: Corsair RM650 (2019) SSD: Kingston A2000 500GB GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X Case: Corsair Graphite 600T The plan
I like big air coolers (and I cannot lie), hence the Scythe Ninja 5 on my CPU. So the goal was to get quite a big CPU cooler on the Graphics card as well. Also works magic for heat capacity and dissipation.
To keep cost a little bit in mind, I settled on a Scythe Mugen V PCGH edition. I've used Scythe coolers for a long time now, they've never disappointed me.
 
Prep
Get all the stuff together. I figured I needed some heatsinks for the VRM and vRAM, so I ordered those in advance. Together with thermal compound, isopropyl alcohol, gpu-pwm fan cable adapter and thermal adhesive tape. That last one is to stick the heatsinks to the VRM and vRAM.
 
Also: I have a bit of a workshop in my garage. You'll want a drill press, angle grinder, vise, and ideally a bench grinder.
 
The magic
Well, The start is basically pulling your GPU apart. Not very difficult thus far, mostly interesting to see how they built and cooled this thing.
Her it is without cooling, a MSI RX 5700XT Gaming X:

 
 
Then to fit the bracket:

 
The bracket needed new mounting holes, as well as the cross bar that pushes down the cooler on the die. Relatively easy with a bench press, although the metal used is quite durable I must say. Good quality from Scythe
 
After that it's basically fitting and glue-ing the heatsinks to all the chips (TIP: check where the default cooler had thermal pads to see what needs cooling):

 
And slap the fans on, with the adapter to the GPU-fan plug:

 
Final installation
Note that the fans are on sideways. This is intentional (well, now it is at least) since it wouldn't fit against the motherboard otherwise. It would then effectively block all other fan headers on the board, and the fins would touch all sorts of stuff which made me fear shorting something.
 
It's quite a big thing now:

 
By moving the PSU to the (unused) drive bay, there is space for this huge cooler now:

 
Upgrade 1: vRAM cooling
Probably not really necessary, but I wanted to cool the vRAM the same as the other chips, so I bought more copper. removed the top cooling plate and custom cooled the vRAM:
(bending the pins was needed for space)

 
 
Upgrade 2: make my own 'case'
As you can clearly see, there is a lot of cooling tower in that case. I went through all the trouble of building it, so why not show it off more?
Also: the CPU cooler is still hanging from the motherboard, clinging on for dear life. I'd like both coolers in the same orientation. So I decided to build my own rig to make it better. Added in a PCI-e riser cable to make it work, and ended up with this:

 
Results: Silence and performance!
I currently run the highest that AMD let's you overclock this thing. Which is 2150 MHz at a power limit of +20%. VRAM is at 1800 MHz, since I get a screen flicker above that.
The temps never exceed 75 degrees (Celsius) at any load. (except junction temps when it's boosting, but that seems to be OK)
 
But the best thing is the silence! I have it on my desk, next to my head, and all I can hear is a bit of coil whine. But NO FANS whatsoever!
 
The End
Let me know what you think!

Inspired by the Frankenstein GPU Cooling video I decided to make my own version with the RX 5700 XT I already had, and a Scythe Mugen V CPU cooler.
Since I had the room in my case I figured that it would be a nice option to keep it quiet.
 
TL;DR?
scroll all the way to the bottom to the last picture. That's the final result
 
My system
I have the following parts (currently)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Scythe Ninja 5 Motherboard: MSI X570-A Pro Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D PSU: Corsair RM650 (2019) SSD: Kingston A2000 500GB GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X Case: Corsair Graphite 600T The plan
I like big air coolers (and I cannot lie), hence the Scythe Ninja 5 on my CPU. So the goal was to get quite a big CPU cooler on the Graphics card as well. Also works magic for heat capacity and dissipation.
To keep cost a little bit in mind, I settled on a Scythe Mugen V PCGH edition. I've used Scythe coolers for a long time now, they've never disappointed me.
 
Prep
Get all the stuff together. I figured I needed some heatsinks for the VRM and vRAM, so I ordered those in advance. Together with thermal compound, isopropyl alcohol, gpu-pwm fan cable adapter and thermal adhesive tape. That last one is to stick the heatsinks to the VRM and vRAM.
 
Also: I have a bit of a workshop in my garage. You'll want a drill press, angle grinder, vise, and ideally a bench grinder.
 
The magic
Well, The start is basically pulling your GPU apart. Not very difficult thus far, mostly interesting to see how they built and cooled this thing.
Her it is without cooling, a MSI RX 5700XT Gaming X:

 
 
Then to fit the bracket:

 
The bracket needed new mounting holes, as well as the cross bar that pushes down the cooler on the die. Relatively easy with a bench press, although the metal used is quite durable I must say. Good quality from Scythe
 
After that it's basically fitting and glue-ing the heatsinks to all the chips (TIP: check where the default cooler had thermal pads to see what needs cooling):

 
And slap the fans on, with the adapter to the GPU-fan plug:

 
Final installation
Note that the fans are on sideways. This is intentional (well, now it is at least) since it wouldn't fit against the motherboard otherwise. It would then effectively block all other fan headers on the board, and the fins would touch all sorts of stuff which made me fear shorting something.
 
It's quite a big thing now:

 
By moving the PSU to the (unused) drive bay, there is space for this huge cooler now:

 
Upgrade 1: vRAM cooling
Probably not really necessary, but I wanted to cool the vRAM the same as the other chips, so I bought more copper. removed the top cooling plate and custom cooled the vRAM:
(bending the pins was needed for space)

 
 
Upgrade 2: make my own 'case'
As you can clearly see, there is a lot of cooling tower in that case. I went through all the trouble of building it, so why not show it off more?
Also: the CPU cooler is still hanging from the motherboard, clinging on for dear life. I'd like both coolers in the same orientation. So I decided to build my own rig to make it better. Added in a PCI-e riser cable to make it work, and ended up with this:

 
Results: Silence and performance!
I currently run the highest that AMD let's you overclock this thing. Which is 2150 MHz at a power limit of +20%. VRAM is at 1800 MHz, since I get a screen flicker above that.
The temps never exceed 75 degrees (Celsius) at any load. (except junction temps when it's boosting, but that seems to be OK)
 
But the best thing is the silence! I have it on my desk, next to my head, and all I can hear is a bit of coil whine. But NO FANS whatsoever!
 
The End
Let me know what you think!

Inspired by the Frankenstein GPU Cooling video I decided to make my own version with the RX 5700 XT I already had, and a Scythe Mugen V CPU cooler.
Since I had the room in my case I figured that it would be a nice option to keep it quiet.
 
TL;DR?
scroll all the way to the bottom to the last picture. That's the final result
 
My system
I have the following parts (currently)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Scythe Ninja 5 Motherboard: MSI X570-A Pro Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D PSU: Corsair RM650 (2019) SSD: Kingston A2000 500GB GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X Case: Corsair Graphite 600T The plan
I like big air coolers (and I cannot lie), hence the Scythe Ninja 5 on my CPU. So the goal was to get quite a big CPU cooler on the Graphics card as well. Also works magic for heat capacity and dissipation.
To keep cost a little bit in mind, I settled on a Scythe Mugen V PCGH edition. I've used Scythe coolers for a long time now, they've never disappointed me.
 
Prep
Get all the stuff together. I figured I needed some heatsinks for the VRM and vRAM, so I ordered those in advance. Together with thermal compound, isopropyl alcohol, gpu-pwm fan cable adapter and thermal adhesive tape. That last one is to stick the heatsinks to the VRM and vRAM.
 
Also: I have a bit of a workshop in my garage. You'll want a drill press, angle grinder, vise, and ideally a bench grinder.
 
The magic
Well, The start is basically pulling your GPU apart. Not very difficult thus far, mostly interesting to see how they built and cooled this thing.
Her it is without cooling, a MSI RX 5700XT Gaming X:

 
 
Then to fit the bracket:

 
The bracket needed new mounting holes, as well as the cross bar that pushes down the cooler on the die. Relatively easy with a bench press, although the metal used is quite durable I must say. Good quality from Scythe
 
After that it's basically fitting and glue-ing the heatsinks to all the chips (TIP: check where the default cooler had thermal pads to see what needs cooling):

 
And slap the fans on, with the adapter to the GPU-fan plug:

 
Final installation
Note that the fans are on sideways. This is intentional (well, now it is at least) since it wouldn't fit against the motherboard otherwise. It would then effectively block all other fan headers on the board, and the fins would touch all sorts of stuff which made me fear shorting something.
 
It's quite a big thing now:

 
By moving the PSU to the (unused) drive bay, there is space for this huge cooler now:

 
Upgrade 1: vRAM cooling
Probably not really necessary, but I wanted to cool the vRAM the same as the other chips, so I bought more copper. removed the top cooling plate and custom cooled the vRAM:
(bending the pins was needed for space)

 
 
Upgrade 2: make my own 'case'
As you can clearly see, there is a lot of cooling tower in that case. I went through all the trouble of building it, so why not show it off more?
Also: the CPU cooler is still hanging from the motherboard, clinging on for dear life. I'd like both coolers in the same orientation. So I decided to build my own rig to make it better. Added in a PCI-e riser cable to make it work, and ended up with this:

 
Results: Silence and performance!
I currently run the highest that AMD let's you overclock this thing. Which is 2150 MHz at a power limit of +20%. VRAM is at 1800 MHz, since I get a screen flicker above that.
The temps never exceed 75 degrees (Celsius) at any load. (except junction temps when it's boosting, but that seems to be OK)
 
But the best thing is the silence! I have it on my desk, next to my head, and all I can hear is a bit of coil whine. But NO FANS whatsoever!
 
The End
Let me know what you think!

Inspired by the Frankenstein GPU Cooling video I decided to make my own version with the RX 5700 XT I already had, and a Scythe Mugen V CPU cooler.
Since I had the room in my case I figured that it would be a nice option to keep it quiet.
 
TL;DR?
scroll all the way to the bottom to the last picture. That's the final result
 
My system
I have the following parts (currently)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Scythe Ninja 5 Motherboard: MSI X570-A Pro Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D PSU: Corsair RM650 (2019) SSD: Kingston A2000 500GB GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X Case: Corsair Graphite 600T The plan
I like big air coolers (and I cannot lie), hence the Scythe Ninja 5 on my CPU. So the goal was to get quite a big CPU cooler on the Graphics card as well. Also works magic for heat capacity and dissipation.
To keep cost a little bit in mind, I settled on a Scythe Mugen V PCGH edition. I've used Scythe coolers for a long time now, they've never disappointed me.
 
Prep
Get all the stuff together. I figured I needed some heatsinks for the VRM and vRAM, so I ordered those in advance. Together with thermal compound, isopropyl alcohol, gpu-pwm fan cable adapter and thermal adhesive tape. That last one is to stick the heatsinks to the VRM and vRAM.
 
Also: I have a bit of a workshop in my garage. You'll want a drill press, angle grinder, vise, and ideally a bench grinder.
 
The magic
Well, The start is basically pulling your GPU apart. Not very difficult thus far, mostly interesting to see how they built and cooled this thing.
Her it is without cooling, a MSI RX 5700XT Gaming X:

 
 
Then to fit the bracket:

 
The bracket needed new mounting holes, as well as the cross bar that pushes down the cooler on the die. Relatively easy with a bench press, although the metal used is quite durable I must say. Good quality from Scythe
 
After that it's basically fitting and glue-ing the heatsinks to all the chips (TIP: check where the default cooler had thermal pads to see what needs cooling):

 
And slap the fans on, with the adapter to the GPU-fan plug:

 
Final installation
Note that the fans are on sideways. This is intentional (well, now it is at least) since it wouldn't fit against the motherboard otherwise. It would then effectively block all other fan headers on the board, and the fins would touch all sorts of stuff which made me fear shorting something.
 
It's quite a big thing now:

 
By moving the PSU to the (unused) drive bay, there is space for this huge cooler now:

 
Upgrade 1: vRAM cooling
Probably not really necessary, but I wanted to cool the vRAM the same as the other chips, so I bought more copper. removed the top cooling plate and custom cooled the vRAM:
(bending the pins was needed for space)

 
 
Upgrade 2: make my own 'case'
As you can clearly see, there is a lot of cooling tower in that case. I went through all the trouble of building it, so why not show it off more?
Also: the CPU cooler is still hanging from the motherboard, clinging on for dear life. I'd like both coolers in the same orientation. So I decided to build my own rig to make it better. Added in a PCI-e riser cable to make it work, and ended up with this:

 
Results: Silence and performance!
I currently run the highest that AMD let's you overclock this thing. Which is 2150 MHz at a power limit of +20%. VRAM is at 1800 MHz, since I get a screen flicker above that.
The temps never exceed 75 degrees (Celsius) at any load. (except junction temps when it's boosting, but that seems to be OK)
 
But the best thing is the silence! I have it on my desk, next to my head, and all I can hear is a bit of coil whine. But NO FANS whatsoever!
 
The End
Let me know what you think!