Shady gpu

[D148xZ]

I bought a Sapphire r7 265 for €27,50 a few months ago, the seller said it was working fine with no problems and for the price I thought, why the heck not? So a few days later it arrived and it looked totally fine, I put it in my computer and then I found out that the temps were at 80c at idle, then I saw the fans weren't spinning so I took the card out, took off the fans, took off the shroud and reapplied thermal paste. I reinserted it into my pc and put 2 120mm fans next to it, now the temps are okay, max 70c with furmark. I didn't return it because I didn't want to go through the hassle of sending it back and it was working so... 

But now I kind of want a more permanent and more elegant solution so do any of you have any suggestions of what I can do to make the original shroud working?

I have already verified that the fans were working when I tried them on another card.

[hconverse02]

Maybe try to passive cool it or check the cables for any tears or damages

[D148xZ]

1 minute ago, hconverse02 said:

Maybe try to passive cool it or check the cables for any tears or damages

I know there's no problem with the cables, it the fan header or something on the card. I just need a different way of making the fans spin.

[Litargirio]

There are aftermarket heatsyncs that you can buy individually for cheap and stick onto the card. I'm not familiar with this card in particular, but a quick Google search should tell you if there are any.

[anybodykek]

2 minutes ago, D148xZ said:

I know there's no problem with the cables, it the fan header or something on the card. I just need a different way of making the fans spin.

Is that a 4-pin PWM header? Just plug it into the fan headers on your motherboard or the fan controller in your case if you have one. A splitter works, but using a splitter on a single header with 3 fans connected into it probably isn't the best idea.

[Guest Generallee]

4 minutes ago, D148xZ said:

I know there's no problem with the cables, it the fan header or something on the card. I just need a different way of making the fans spin.

Run em off a PWM header on your motherboard, use some adapter

[manikyath]

sorry.. but.. what the FUCK did you do to your cabling? i havent even seen prebuilts that bad.

 

and as for a more nicer looker fix, bodge the fans of the shroud to something in the range of 5-12 volts (or a header on the mobo) and deal with it that way.

 

i'd suggest one of those fan controllers with built in temp sensor control, but they are more expensive than what you paid for your card

[AdamBGames]

20 minutes ago, D148xZ said:

I bought a Sapphire r7 265 for €27,50 a few months ago, the seller said it was working fine with no problems and for the price I thought, why the heck not? So a few days later it arrived and it looked totally fine, I put it in my computer and then I found out that the temps were at 80c at idle, then I saw the fans weren't spinning so I took the card out, took off the fans, took off the shroud and reapplied thermal paste. I reinserted it into my pc and put 2 120mm fans next to it, now the temps are okay, max 70c with furmark. I didn't return it because I didn't want to go through the hassle of sending it back and it was working so... 

But now I kind of want a more permanent and more elegant solution so do any of you have any suggestions of what I can do to make the original shroud working?

I have already verified that the fans were working when I tried them on another card.

Might be worth trying to jerry rig a cpu cooler on there and then control the fan using the motherboard. here is a video of a guy doing it, you will need to get heatsinks for the vrm tho (obviously you would get a low profile cooler)

 

[manikyath]

4 minutes ago, AdamBGames said:

Might be worth trying to jerry rig a cpu cooler on there and then control the fan using the motherboard. here is a video of a guy doing it, you will need to get heatsinks for the vrm tho (obviously you would get a low profile cooler)

 

honestly, at that point it'd look better to stick with 120mm fans on the stock heatsink.

[D148xZ]

19 minutes ago, Generallee said:

Run em off a PWM header on your motherboard, use some adapter

Just bought one, 

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/32696584976/32696584976.html

 

9 minutes ago, AdamBGames said:

Might be worth trying to jerry rig a cpu cooler on there and then control the fan using the motherboard. here is a video of a guy doing it, you will need to get heatsinks for the vrm tho (obviously you would get a low profile cooler)

 

I might just actually do that

 

17 minutes ago, manikyath said:

sorry.. but.. what the FUCK did you do to your cabling? i havent even seen prebuilts that bad.

 

and as for a more nicer looker fix, bodge the fans of the shroud to something in the range of 5-12 volts (or a header on the mobo) and deal with it that way.

 

i'd suggest one of those fan controllers with built in temp sensor control, but they are more expensive than what you paid for your card

It's still kind of a work in progress lol, I bought an old powermac G5 for €40 half a year ago and this is just a temporary case, I just haven't gotten around to atx modding it yet.

 

could do a build log on it.

 

[Bl00dgod]

running the card with some 120/140mm fans might not be the prettiest way but its effective, 5minutes work onto cablemanagement would be worth it too

[D148xZ]

6 minutes ago, Bl00dgod said:

running the card with some 120/140mm fans might not be the prettiest way but its effective, 5minutes work onto cablemanagement would be worth it too

Looks a lot better than mine tbh, I'll try it with zip ties, thanks.