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Gfx cooler up the spout??!!??

 
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DanTheMan



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:08 pm    Post subject: Gfx cooler up the spout??!!?? Reply with quote

So.........I thought,

My gfx card cooler was up the spout (broken) seems it was just bent from my brutal dismantling methods, but in my haste (panic) i ordered a new one.

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_&mID=379

Not too big i thought, Can`t be that BIG i thought and for £23 a bargain.

So it arrived in a 12" (30cm) square box. I decided to fit it today which proved to be the worst two and a half hours i`ve ever spent with my beloved pc!!

This is my baby, 8800GT 1GB. Unscathed by any game and destroyer of two PSU`s.



This is the cooler, to my shock 800 feet wide and 300 feet deep (exaggeration ), pic is against my 22" monitor (this thing is HUGE)



So i bit the bullet after 2 hours of worry and removed my stock cooler, The nvidia chip is really pretty with a lovely mirror finish. This is where the problems started. It says in the "instructions" and i quote.
"If an eraser is not rubbed on the memory chips, the heatsinks will not stick". WELL, after a full half of an eraser, The long heatsink still didn`t stick and is now wedged in place with rolled up cardboard Evil or Very Mad .



This is a pic of "the beamoth" and the stock cooler.



And the side view. I had to move all my sata cables, two hdd`s and every cable near the gfx card just to fit it Mad



So, all in all. A very harrowing experience and now i`m cacking myself that one of the other heasinks are going to drop off (frying my card). But, on the plus side; Card is fourteen degrees celcius cooler and the fans are running two thousand rpm slower. I do not recommend this route to anyone.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hahaha Laughing nice work, have you auditioned for Scrapheap Challenge yet? Razz
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


Fit a CPU cooler like mine Dan then find a kitchen cabinet to fit it all in .......big but KOOOOOOOOL
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