Cooling a CPU with a GPU cooler

[JayFloof]

Just thought, could you take a cooler from a GPU and attach it to your CPU? This would probably be very unstable and impractical. Maybe something for a video?

[Octavialicious]

you could as a heatsink is a heatsink, but mounting it would be the hard part

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, MrLogic said:

Just thought, could you take a cooler from a GPU and attach it to your CPU? This would probably be very unstable and impractical. Maybe something for a video?

I have seen a video of a person who mounted a cpu heatseak on a gpu. Idk why you'd want to put a gpu heatink and put it on a a cpu though. 

[TheRandomness]

30 minutes ago, CaptainGunny said:

I have seen a video of a person who mounted a cpu heatseak on a gpu. Idk why you'd want to put a gpu heatink and put it on a a cpu though. 

Low profile? 

[Stefan1024]

It will cool well, if you manage to make it fit. It will be a pain because the VRM, RAM and PCIe slots are blocking the area.

[Virtual01]

The cooling performance would suck. Just think about how much bigger CPU air coolers are than GPU air coolers.

 

Mounting a CPU cooler to your GPU though would give you amazing performance.