Ghetto modded Noctua onto GTX 980

[Statecat]

Holy moly that is amazing. Pci slot are you okay? ;-;

[1Scotty1]

RIP PCI slot but that is one ghetto mod, m9

[nastye]

Build some lego towers to support card & slot and make it even more ghetto!

[Ice_Stormz]

Sick mod man! But wouldn't the PCI slot get absolutuley raped? Like damn that must be alot of extra weight that MSI never thought of in their design. 

Nonetheless, sick rig with awesome mod!

[Adriel]

Damn! Interesting mod to say the least, but the sag looks a bit worrying.

[Kireas]

Question, by attaching the card into the case, won't the weight of the cooler cause the card to fail in the long run? Like it snapping or something or are those coolers not as heavy as they look?

[Sidiox]

As all the people pointing out that this isn't good for the PCIe slot.

You could just string it up with some wire. THat is what I did when my GTX970 flexed a bit (which I didn't like):

[AHaskin14]

To those asking all the "Is this possible on my ______". Yes it is possible. With enough ingenuity you can put any cooler on any card. That's why I have a Cooler Master Seidon 120m on my GTX 770. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/364951-cpu-aio-on-a-gpu-nvidia-mod-updated-5-13/

[haelmikir14]

Those flat cases that uses risers to have the video card flat + a low profile cpu heatsink on the gpu. Hope someone can try it.

[bomerr]

90C made you shut down the PC?

 

It's designed to run 85C - 90C. It will clock down if it gets too hot.

not when you max out the power limit to stop it from down clocking it won't.

 

 

Nice! Too bad I'm not willing to do this to my ref 980. I miss silence!! Not as much as i like the card thou. Have you seen what this opened up for oc headroom yet?

 

Surprisingly it didn't do anything for OC headroom.

 

At 1440p I was running 1531 mhz core and 8000 mhz memory stable. 

Once I bumped up to 4K it became unstable. I had to reduce core to 1520 mhz and memory to 7800 mhz for stability.

 

The improvement is that before I was hitting 90C with an OC and now I'm running at a cool 60C. Also it's very quiet. Much more quiet than any non reference card (strix, wind force, acx, etc). 

 

 

How'd you manage to cool the VRMs and vRAM chips?

 

stock reference frontplate(? don't know if that's the correct term) 

[bomerr]

Sick mod man! But wouldn't the PCI slot get absolutuley raped? Like damn that must be alot of extra weight that MSI never thought of in their design. 

Nonetheless, sick rig with awesome mod!

How'd you know i have an MSI card? You hax? 

 

Damn! Interesting mod to say the least, but the sag looks a bit worrying.

 

 

Question, by attaching the card into the case, won't the weight of the cooler cause the card to fail in the long run? Like it snapping or something or are those coolers not as heavy as they look?

 

 

As all the people pointing out that this isn't good for the PCIe slot.

You could just string it up with some wire. THat is what I did when my GTX970 flexed a bit (which I didn't like):

Ya I'll def add the string for support.

 

As for weight it's not that heavy as the cooler is made mostly of aluminum and part of the weight is offset from the removal of the stock cooler. I would guess it's somewhere around the same weight as a gigabyte wind force card. 

[Probably an Army of Asians]

I love ghetto GPU cooling. Nice job!

[cloneman]

I wish someone would do this for a NUC / Brix / SFF, as per my design schematic

 

 

[Stefan1024]

- snip -

 

It looks very nice. Keep enlarging the cooler at this rate and you will have a passive cooled GPU soon

Also when you passed a certain point, your cooler will supprot the GPU and not visc versa.

 

 

For more look in my signature...

 

 

[Joe11221]

What case is that!??!?! It looks like an old mac pro

[Lethal Seraph]

I like the ghetto build. 

[Ice_Stormz]

How'd you know i have an MSI card? You hax? 

 

 

 

 

 

Ya I'll def add the string for support.

 

As for weight it's not that heavy as the cooler is made mostly of aluminum and part of the weight is offset from the removal of the stock cooler. I would guess it's somewhere around the same weight as a gigabyte wind force card. 

Yea dawg hax all the way.

No lool it's in your system build bio

[jman3350]

What case is that!??!?! It looks like an old mac pro

 

It's either that or a PowerMac G5

 

I might be wrong but it seems like there shouldn't be any mods needed to fit it in the case. 

 

Was just wondering because I picked up a Mac Pro and a Powermac G5, but the motherboard in one of them is definitely not standard sized. I'm just wondering if he was able to get the front panel hooked up and working because that's the only thing that stopped me from trying it

[SpaceDuckDevourerOfWorlds]

I wish someone would do this for a NUC / Brix / SFF, as per my design schematic

 

 

you used a bit to much thermal paste in that image

[SpaceDuckDevourerOfWorlds]

now let's try sli