Strix 980ti fan mod - biggest graphics card ever?

[cHubbyFker]

So a few weeks ago, two of the fans on my Asus Strix 980ti broke.

Having recently gotten myself a 3d-printer, I figured this was a great opportunity to put it to good use.

After waiting for 3 Noctua NF-A9x25s, and some simple design work, this is the result!

 

 

NZXT H440 for scale. Barely squeezes in behind the HDD panel!

 

 

For those that don't know - the Strix 980ti is one of the largest graphics cards ever, even at stock. My card now measures in att 33cm x 15cm x 6cm. It's kind of stupid.

Now, the card has some massive sag even as standard, so there was no way I was going to stand it up without some sort of support. Luckily, the first ever print I made was f*cking perfect for the job.

 

 

As luck would have it, a few days after completing this masterpiece I ran into @AlexTheGreatish and @BRollTheIntern while working at Dreamhack over the weekend. Both gave me a "That's awesome" out of 10. As a sidenote, it was super cool meeting you guys! Was kinda starstruck  

 

I'm not finished with this beast yet, though. The 3d-printed parts were designed just so that I could get the card working again, and the quality of the prints is kinda shoddy. Soon, I'll probably print a more complete shroud. Although I can't get a baseline for my specific card, I'll also do some benchmarking on it then, as well!

 

Stay tuned for part 2!

[EarthWormJM2]

My GOD. What have you done man!?!

[Christophe Corazza]

Kill it... kill it with fire! 

 

Joking aside: Have you already run some benchmarks? I'm curious about the thermals though.

[Computernaut]

That's so awesome... Assuming you don't mind the look.

[cHubbyFker]

14 minutes ago, Christophe Corazza said:

Kill it... kill it with fire! 

 

Joking aside: Have you already run some benchmarks? I'm curious about the thermals though.

Thermals are kind of wierd at the moment. They're better than stock, but not by the margin you'd expect (it maxes out at about 70 degrees celsius under 100% load, compared to 81 stock). I'm pretty sure that this is down to a few things -

 

The gap between the fans and the heatsink isn't great. This is the primary reason why I want to make a version 2. This is a very early, rough mockup of how I want it to sit against the heatsink in the future, as opposed to the simple brackets it has now.

 

I'm also pretty sure that I've got issues either with one of the fan connectors, or one of the two fan hubs I have in the system, as I've got some wierd behaviours and reporting. 

[scottyseng]

I'm scared that you made the 980 Ti strix (which is already a monster card to me) even bigger. Though yeah, I have a strix with a broken fan, so I removed the fan shroud. It's in a server so I just have two delta fans on it.

[cHubbyFker]

3 minutes ago, Computernaut said:

That's so awesome... Assuming you don't mind the look.

Hopefully I can try to design version 2 to.... compliment the "industrial" look of the fans!

 

Or I'll just hide them behind a shroud

[Orcblood]

It's like Vador but instead of getting a cool dark outfit it gets a janky a$$ nerdgasm clashy outfit. 

It's a different kind of scary.

[cHubbyFker]

2 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

I'm scared that you made the 980 Ti strix (which is already a monster card to me) even bigger. Though yeah, I have a strix with a broken fan, so I removed the fan shroud. It's in a server so I just have two delta fans on it.

Hehe yeah... It's a beast of a card. The PCB is an absolute beauty too!

 

That's pretty cool (no pun intended :P). Honestly, I just thought it'd be nice to do a custom mounting solution which integrates the anti-vibration mounts that come with the fans, since I've got the resources to do it at home.