Used GPU coolers

[Tagiau]

Does anyone have any experience buying used gpu coolers off of aliexpress etc.? Have a dead fan, and hitting 90c where amd starts to pull clocks on an rx470. 

[Tagiau]

9 hours ago, 8tg said:

Have you looked into just replacing the fan? 

xfx has a nice feature of being able to just hotswap the fans. And both fans don't spin in one slot. Aliexpress has old asus dual coolers for 30$, which uses the same reference board as the xfx cards. 

[tkitch]

5 hours ago, Tagiau said:

xfx has a nice feature of being able to just hotswap the fans. And both fans don't spin in one slot. Aliexpress has old asus dual coolers for 30$, which uses the same reference board as the xfx cards. 

this comment is super confusing.  

[airborne spoon]

i bought a brand new cooler off ebay straight from china for like $20 for my RX480 but that was because it was always watercooled and nobody wanted to buy it with the waterblock. so i got a new cooler and it was sold in a day.

[RasmusDC]

i ghettoed mine in the older days, had a HD5870 that failed, tore the shroud off, and hot glued 2 80mm fans onto it, worked like a charm and made the card even cooler.. (had some strips mounted as security)

 

today i would 3dprint a mount, and use 120mm fans, would be lower noise, lower tempetures if done just a bit right.