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SlowSVT
01-22-2011, 10:32 AM
During the course of my water cooled Corsair 800D CAD workstaion build I installed a EK HF water block to the I7 950 and a Koolance Asus Rampage III Formula chipset cooler. I kept looking at my nVidia Quadro 2000 graphics card and the heat sink/fan cooler. The Quadro cards deliver pretty stunning graphics to SolidWorks and I know they can get pretty hot. The specs says the board consumes 62 watts and I know the majority of that head is only coming from the main graphic processor. To confirm I pulled the heat sink fan assembly off which the base is die cast aluminum with a copper heat pipe imbedded inside connecting the main processor and 3 BGA's (Ball Grid Array's). I said "what the hell! I've got all this liquid cooling resources in the system mine as well add the graphics card to the loop".

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/SlowSVT/nVidiaQuadro2000videocard.jpg

Since no one makes a water block for this card I bought a 12" x 4" x .187" thick copper plate from McMaster-Carr and went to work milling the plate on my drill press and cross slide vise. I chose a 3/16" thick plate because I wanted a wide heat path to the water block but I knew it was going to the heavy and I did not want to stress the board so I removed all the excess material that wasn't in the heat path. I had to mill a few pockets to clear a few discrete components on the board. This is what I ended up with:

Top
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/SlowSVT/nVidiaQuadro2000coldplate2.jpg

Bottom
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/SlowSVT/nVidiaQuadro2000coldplate1.jpg

After that was finished I mounted an EK VGA Supreme water block. I chose this block because it had a large surface area and the mounting holes accidently line-up perfectly with the heat sink holes on the nVidia card. I used 3/8" barb fitting and thin wall tubing to minimize stress to the board. The screw hardware that came with the block where not threaded all the way so I used 3 mm x 30 pan hd screws. Here is the finished results:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/SlowSVT/nVidiaQuadro2000andEKVGAwaterblock1.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/SlowSVT/nVidiaQuadro2000andEKVGAwaterblock2.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/SlowSVT/nVidiaQuadro2000andEKVGAwaterblock3.jpg

Video card mounted in the chassis

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/SlowSVT/nVidiawatercooledQuadro2000incomputer1.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/SlowSVT/nVidiawatercooledQuadro2000incomputer2.jpg

Haven't fired up the system yet so I can't give you temp reading at this time but I can guarantee they will be a lot lower then the stock heat sink/cooling fan would have been. I will mount a temp probe to the cold plate and get reading once the system is on-line. I wonder if this card can be overclocked :D
Holst
01-22-2011, 10:55 AM
Are those memory chips or something else.

Seems weird that the stock cooler only cools 3 of them, can you take a pic of the stock cooler.

Nice idea to mod the EK block to fit your card.
Its cool to see somebody making things themselves in the watercooling section.
Almost everything in here is off the shelf these days (including my kit as I cant make anything as good as the manufacturers can any more)
SlowSVT
01-22-2011, 11:14 AM
Are those memory chips or something else.

Seems weird that the stock cooler only cools 3 of them, can you take a pic of the stock cooler.

Nice idea to mod the EK block to fit your card.
Its cool to see somebody making things themselves in the watercooling section.
Almost everything in here is off the shelf these days (including my kit as I cant make anything as good as the manufacturers can any more)

I connected the cold plate only to the components the stock heat sink was connected to. You can see the pocket milled out for the main graphics processor. I have photos of the comp side of the board but they are stuck inside my camer phone and I can't get them out for some reason :shakes: When I do I will post those photos.

No mods to the EK block. It bolted right onto the cold plate/video card :up:
SlowSVT
01-22-2011, 11:25 AM
Here are photos on the bottom side of the Quadro heat sink/fan assembly

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/SlowSVT/IMG_0492.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/SlowSVT/IMG_0493.jpg
skinnee
01-22-2011, 01:17 PM
Nice mod, well done! :up:
Johnny87au
01-22-2011, 08:52 PM
Hehe nice one, big temp improvements over that shyt stock plate :)
tiro_uspsss
02-01-2011, 06:00 PM
I swear the nv quadros (esp the ones from pny) have the hottest looking stock heatsinks :slobber:
asura
02-02-2011, 01:51 AM
Difficult to tell, but it looks like it's based off a 440 or a 450... not that anyone makes a block for those so that would be no help at all 8800gts block bolts straight onto FX4600 ;). A very well thought out and executed mod :up:
felix_w
02-22-2011, 05:32 AM
GTS 450 based...
kgtiger
10-14-2011, 04:48 AM
Excellent!:up:

Just what I was looking for, but I see I will need to make it myself :rolleyes:
Cool!
kgtiger
10-14-2011, 04:50 AM
Excellent!:up:

Just what I was looking for, but I see I will need to make it myself :rolleyes:
Cool!
Smiler.
11-28-2012, 02:56 AM
Thanks for posting this, I am looking to carry out the very same mod (twice).

How is this performing?
Smiler.
01-06-2013, 04:01 AM
Well I got mine up & running, If anyone is interested, I'll post some pics :)
Toolius
01-06-2013, 04:40 AM
We are always interested :D ... Post away :)
tiborrr
01-06-2013, 06:06 AM
OP, do you still have a photo of the naked/bare PCB? Care to share? :)
Smiler.
01-09-2013, 06:22 AM
The cards I have are PNY & are different from the NVIDIA one in the pic at the top of this thread.

The PNY board is shorter & the fan/sink smaller, only making contact with the GPU.

I'd post some pics but I can't.

Having clicked "Manage Attachments", another window is opened & although there is the instruction:

"1. Click Add Files to upload new files or select from existing files below"

..there is no "Add Files" button visible :(
felix_w
01-09-2013, 06:32 AM
Maybe it's because you have only 3 posts ? it could be that.

You can use an image hosting service like photobucket, imgur or other similar to post a direct link
Smiler.
01-09-2013, 08:51 AM
Ah, ok thanks.

I can't be arsed to register with another hoster for pics so I'll post a bit more on here until eligibility is granted. There's plenty to praise on here :)
tiborrr
01-10-2013, 01:27 PM
Smiler, use www.file.si, no need to register. Very fast service.