I replaced the fans on my MSI armor rx580

[Randon]

I replaced the fans on my MSI armor rx580 with random 120mm case fans. I should have expected the performance to suck because of the low RPM/static pressure but I did it anyway and yeah I went up to 85° in furmark at stock settings with the fans at full RPM. When I ran the test again after the GPU was warm it went up to 86° and I stopped it there. For reference with the stock fans I can overclock the core by 100mhz, the ram by 250mhz, raise the power limit to 150% and stay below 80° but it's obviously much louder. 

Here's some pictures.

I made a couple of mistakes with the bracket one of them is a cut in the bottom left corner, that's the only bad one and overall the plate fit fairly nicely although it doesn't look very nice. I am used to working with much thicker steel not the flimsy old case panel that I used for this.

[thrasher_565]

52 minutes ago, Randon said:

I replaced the fans on my MSI armor rx580 with random 120mm case fans. I should have expected the performance to suck because of the low RPM/static pressure but I did it anyway and yeah I went up to 85° in furmark at stock settings with the fans at full RPM. When I ran the test again after the GPU was warm it went up to 86° and I stopped it there. For reference with the stock fans I can overclock the core by 100mhz, the ram by 250mhz, raise the power limit to 150% and stay below 80° but it's obviously much louder. 

Here's some pictures.

I made a couple of mistakes with the bracket one of them is a cut in the bottom left corner, that's the only bad one and overall the plate fit fairly nicely although it doesn't look very nice. I am used to working with much thicker steel not the flimsy old case panel that I used for this.

 

[Randon]

8 hours ago, thrasher_565 said:

 

How is the performance on those? Do you use specific fans?

[thrasher_565]

4 hours ago, Randon said:

How is the performance on those? Do you use specific fans?

well the stock fans were broken so i dont no what stock temps were but if i had to guess there about the same at a lower db or better performance at a lower db. seem to be around 65ish heaven test. that fans are cheap crap fans i had and i wanted to sell the gpus. if i would have done it properly buy attaching the fans power to the gpu and maybe use 80-92mm fans. trying to center the 120mm was an bit of an pain as it cant go to low or it will hit other pcie slots and cant go too hi or it will hit the door...

Edited February 5, 2021 by thrasher_565