Do every AMD R9 200 and 300 series GPU Heatsink will fit to my Powercolor PCS+ R9 380?

[Bryan Lei]

Can I fit any GPU Heatsinks from R9 200 series lineup to R9 300 series lineup on my R9 380? Or it will only fit if the donor gpu heatsink are also from a Powercolor (R9 200/300) gpu?

[191x7]

Different cards use different mosfets, capacitors and memory, and they arrange them differently. Different in numbers, size, height, location.

Usually the card has to be the same or really similar (for example, a different tier card or generation card but using the same cooler!).

[Bryan Lei]

Thanks! I saw this guy selling a triple fan Powercolor R9 270x card which is defective (the actual card), I can see that it has sort of the same distance/dimensions from the screw holes (heatsink mount) to where the pcie fins are. And you said that it might have different layout, and I'm worried about that. Oh well I think I might just go with a decent aio cooler. (Or maybe go with custom cooling?)

 

Reason for me to change the heatsink is because the current heatsink of my card is a no go anymore, the copper pipe broke, and it's kinda hard to find this specific model of a card here in my place so I asked if I can grab the same generation (same brand?) defective card to replace this. 

[Aereldor]

Board partners have different layouts. Have you considered using a CPU cooler, and little baby heatsinks for the VRMs, memory etc? DIYPerks has been doing this to GPUs since 2014, Linus has a video on it as well. 

[Bryan Lei]

Actually I'm thinking about doing it, and also, the vrm's doesn't have a heatsink or getting any contact with the gpu heatsink out of the box, so maybe giving the little vrm's their own small heatsink might give them more efficiency, anyways it's from a future reference for now. (Still waiting for the motherboard so I can still plan for something)

[Aereldor]

4 hours ago, Bryan Lei said:

Actually I'm thinking about doing it, and also, the vrm's doesn't have a heatsink or getting any contact with the gpu heatsink out of the box, so maybe giving the little vrm's their own small heatsink might give them more efficiency, anyways it's from a future reference for now. (Still waiting for the motherboard so I can still plan for something)

I suspect you'll be fine with the donor heatsink, but yeah the CPU cooler on a GPU strategy is OP, the biggest constraint of a GPU cooler is that it's limited to 2 or 3 PCIe slots wide by design, and even the cheapest CPU coolers can perform well. Probably cheaper than your donor card, something like a Gammax 400 is 20 bucks, used you can probably get a cooler for pocket change, I've seen Hyper 212s literally given away.