Post your custom heatsinks here!
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Post your custom heatsinks here!
Extreme good, mundane bad! ;)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1199926167
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Link added. Please add links to build threads if possible.
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Ram heatspreads for my Crucial 10th year anniversary kit
patting yourself on the back a bit huh stevil :lol: have we seen the performance numbers on that monstrosity yet? Im interested to see how it will compare vs the big typhoon 14 lol
Just noticed there was no thread specific to custom built air cooling heatsinks, thought i'd fill the void ;)
Haha, ;D very nice.
Thinking of making somthing for my old Tuniq. (since the base is easy to mod! but then you'll have to figure out a mount)
Big heatsinks cut into little heatsinks and mounted with AS thermal adhesive on motherboard mosfets, video card vrms and bridge chip. In the close-up pic of the video vrm's, check out the left heatsink; I had to cut a notch in the bottom of the hs to clear a resistor sitting in between two vrms. The hs on the bridge chip and the right vrm look like they are touching resistors, but they're not. The heatsink on the southbridge is from a crt monitor.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...o/DSCN0136.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...o/CIMG0522.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...x1950sinks.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...o/CIMG0670.jpg
Honestly, I would mod a TRUE to something similar to that if I had the time and tools to around here. Pity by the time I plan to start, it'll be too old.
Using 2x TRUE heatsinks instead, one base, 4 heatpipes to each HS around the opposite sides and one side with 4 heatpipes running straight up from the base, with a /\ aerial HS shaped design enabling to fit 4/2 fans. Weight would be taken care of too.
This thing looks big enough to cool a volcano :eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by STEvil
seriously though, nice heatsink :up:
what did you cut that with? id like to do sameQuote:
Originally Posted by Modzilla
Yea, what did you use to cut? I have some old AMD HS's I'd like to make into big mosfet coolers.
I used this Dremel to cut the heatsinks:
http://www.dremel.com/en-us/tools/to...=66981&I=69675
This is the Mod made by Crankybugga, whitch modded the northbridge to cool down the temps.He obtained sucess.
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4751/12557364tl5.jpg
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2002/40292280el2.jpg
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/4189/10sm7.jpg
where'd he obtain the heatpipe?
nice northbridge cooler with that golden heat pipe...
its a good idea since the cpu cooler is usually bigger than it needed to be
@STEvil - Is that custom heatsink of yours made out of two Thermaltake Big Typhoon's? How easy was it to make, and how well does it perform?
Yes. Easy to do with right tools. Link added to first post.Quote:
Originally Posted by netburst
My old ATi Rage 3d Turbo PCI :) It saves me many times from video problems :) its crazy old ;)
Sorry for the pics...nokia 6630 powered :)
Btw this video is non heatsink retailed :) A lil bit cooling is not bad
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/6...8004ue2.th.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/746...8001li4.th.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1...8002mp2.th.jpg
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1...8003bu1.th.jpg
what heatsink is that :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by THRASHER2
Everything started with Palit 7300GT Sonic with very poor cooler
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1...1402mf2.th.jpg
this "evil' device" made 55 Idle and 63 celsius in stress. So I've decieded to improve it a little with Intel pentium Lga 775 box (copper core)cooler:
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6...1955ix9.th.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5...1956nn3.th.jpg
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/5...1957ar8.th.jpg
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8...1958te7.th.jpg
after this mod temps were better so I could finally increase Gpu voltage (1.24) to 1.7 (24/7) :)
It's not an heatsink and the card is on water, but nevertheless i have custom aircooling on the PWM.
http://img.techpowerup.org/080325/2900pro_vrm.jpg
The heatpipe is from a laptop. I made it more flat and now its cooling some mosfets. It works great, gave me a +25mhz increase in coreclock. To bad my HD2900 is dying and even gives artifacts in 2d mode as i type this down.
i thought i'd post my nb heatsink
Nice work people!! *goes to get dremel and some old mobos*
This mod was not for the sake of "hack because I can", but maturely a very much needed doing (and i would take it all the way back to the visiontek company as a real complaint)
I got the AGP version of the ati 2600 pro. The heatsink was "classicly" horrible with a solid metal plate (photo) on the back, and an annoying buzzing little fan that stays wide open. so I checked around the web for popular alternatives
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d..._acclroWeb.jpg
And ended up with the accelero revision 2. I hacked the back plate to match ram heatsinks (bottom and top), and to alleviate what I cannot professionally call a problem with that one metal plate going across 3 different active chips (memory, what I think is called the "pci-e convertor" and the most important, the backside of vpu) Everything became quite fluid and of course faster, and cooler. System temps are as normal as ever. I went with custom studs at 3mm for the 2 little bolts holding the whole thing together. Took some drilling, some bending, and my good 20/10 eyeball to make sure the heatsink was exact on the chip gently...
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...acclroMod2.jpg
37c seems to be the constant idle at any room temp.44C fully loaded with a graphics test that strains CPU simultaneously. This system is back to 3 fans and loving it...100fps in HL2 at 1280x960 is enough to drive an epileptic mad. (I really do not to go much farrther than this...)
I modified the mounting mechanism on my thermaltake sonic tower. The mod allows it stay locked in place, preventing it from rotating or moving laterally.
I drilled two holes in the copper base in line with the I-bar, and also in line with the 4 screws already drilled in the base. I drilled two matching holes in the I-bar. This was a HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS as the I-bar is made of case hardened steel, and the area I needed to drill was rounded. It took about 40 minutes of drilling to get through the I-bar.
Then, when I attempted to screw the I-bar into the base, the heads of one of the screws popped off! Luckily, enough of the shaft of the screw was sticking up so that the I-bar is still held firmly in place. I put 3 washers in between the other screw and the I-bar because I didn't want to take any chances of it poking through the other side.
Also, I used the backplate from my newly purchased thermalright SI-128 SE. I couldn't use the screws that came with it since the mounting brackets for the thermaltake are also threaded, they didn't play nice together. So I used for #4 grade machine bolts with washers through the backplate, and then put a nut on them over the top. You can't see them in the following pic.
I used the same method to secure the I-bar to the bracket, since the usual way suggested by thermaltake is ineffective. Thermaltake's installation has you put two standard computer case screws through the top of the I-bar into the bracket, but the force from the I-bar is so great that the screws are liable to pop right off. So, I screwed in a #4 machine bolt from below, and screwed a nut in over the top.
Hi-res pics on my picasa page
how much does that socket weigh? make sure it will not break your mother board...
Really liked the custom heatpipe for the NB
Hi guys. I just found this thread about custom made heatsink for the 8800gt. It's in spanish but here are some pics that speak for themselves.
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4963/91898640lc3.jpg
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/7264/99292801ua9.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9455/60241131xy9.jpg
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/6858/83945103ht5.jpg
Credit goes to squall131 from hardcore-modding.com
Kool i wish i had those heatsinks.
Quick and easy mod for eVGA 780i.
Stock NB cooling fan is crap, poor quality and looks dumb.
Evercool 60mm alum case fan, fits perfectly.
(in this pic I didn't have the front screws cut down)
Custom Heatsinks for my torrent server HD, some pictures of the cutting process and they fixed...
I ended up cutting one side of the mall heatsinks becaus the first cut I did was way too big... this is going to be upside down on the top of an old 20Kg hp server. thats why i cant have any HS under it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores16.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores17.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores19.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores22.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores23.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores25.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores27.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores28.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores21.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores20.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores29.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores30.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ipadores31.jpg
LOL NB heatsink on a HDD :clap:
If it runs cooler, why not :cool:
x1900xt + sonic tower
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/...Y/PICT0088.jpg
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/...o/PICT0091.jpg
http://eyym3q.bay.livefilestore.com/...U/PICT0093.jpg
hd 4850 + SI-128
http://www.airfotos.net/mycomputerpics/SI-128.jpg
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1215948760
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1215948760
740/1075
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1215950313
lulz.
WOW thats so awesome :D :clap:
wow, extreme video heatsinking...
Nice temp on the 4850...How many was the ambient?
dunno it felt like 18-19°C.. colder than normal room temp. it idled at 23°C, minimum was 21°C lol. in any case, load temps stay very well below 40°C with low fan speed. fk w/c :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by Morais
I get a 40C to 43C load temp with my 8800GT @ 725/1625/2000.
Thats the highest I can overclock it, not enough volts :(
it's very good now, good temperature...Quote:
Originally Posted by fatguy1992
Good 4 u :up:
My HDD's run cool as it is :)
I have an offer from a freind about a amplifier heatsink cca. 2kg weight for 5 € pro piece (he has abaut 10 pieces) so what do you think?
post some pictures, depending on the case its worth it. Some times these heatsinks are big but with few fins, poor surface contact to the air...Quote:
Originally Posted by The Shooter
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I love that NB heatpipe connected to the Big Typhoon. Must have taken some serious work to do that.
JM
man now these are really Xtreme!!@@!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by biohead
Thanks, give me great idea for Si128:D
I used a modded Accellero Rev.2 on my 4850 (chopped up pwm&ram sinks to fit) and get load temps at 37C.
I would post a pic, but all the moddedness is hidden under the hs fins =[
What about modding HR-03 plus to cool CPU :shocked::shocked::shocked:
I have HR-03, but i dunno how to bend the heat pipes so they don't touch the mobo's mosfet heatsink ????
How did you bend the heatpipes? Can you post a picture from the side?Quote:
Originally Posted by biohead
Thanks for your help.
-Jason
Thats what I was about to ask :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jsunn
I made one of those today out of a Gigabyte heatpipe heatsink that looks identical ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by biohead
Can anyone make a guide how to bend heatpipes without f*ing them up?
I just do it by hand...
If you want a more technical way to do it you might have luck using some pipe to brace against or help apply force against a fixed item (bench vice or whatever is handy).
wow such nice ghetto mods!
i especially love the NB heatsinks on the HDD's
i was thingking about that...
added an accelero to nb of dfi x38:eek: cracked 1 heat pipe:shakes:
wasnt doin a good job so i modded a xigmatek 1283:D
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...CIMG1200-1.jpg
Cut from a 1U heatsink with a dremel. For digital vrm's on video cards, and other small hot things.
zsamz_, how did u mount the XIGMATEK 1283 to the mobo? i wanna copy u:D
first i moded a 939 backplate "not puttin it on without a backplate"Quote:
Originally Posted by Monkeywoman
i had to dremel the sides cause its too wide to fit the srews gotta be carefull not to cut the heatpipe i almost did :rofl:
when i take it off soon i'll post the pic i'm dumpin my x38 cause it dont like my e8600@ high fsb
i'll slap it on my ut p35;)
Those are crazy coolers! :up:
lol late reply sorry for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jsunn
i just carefully clamped the heatpipes to a surface and bent the heatpipes near the base and near the rad.
those 8mm heatpipes are tough though, the 6mm ones are way easier.
Northbridge heatsinks from Dell P4's.
Cut with dremel and mounted with AS thermal adhesive to motherboard mosfets.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...o/CIMG1203.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...o/CIMG1205.jpg
Plan.B, What is dark sh*t around the cpu? :D
Looks to be insulation.Quote:
Originally Posted by pcaddict
it's coax-seal, for insulation yes
Made this custom heatsink for my striker 2 extreme northbridge, the stock one sucks and gets really hot, i think its going to work well, will be testing this weekend.
got any differences in temps?
Yes there is quite a difference in temps, idle is about 37c, full load is in the 40s depends on what your running, so made a big difference. Stock i was hitting 60c +.
Hi all, that's my first post... i want to show you what one boring day and a 4830 with a Twin and a HR-03 gt can do...
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/9157/pic0269.jpg
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2928/pic0247.jpg
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/6834/pic0238.jpg
Tell me what's do you think.
Pretty nice job you did there, what kinda temps you getting ?
Idle 27; Full 30, max 32...
Amazing temp, aren't they?
Very nice job there Pardulo :clap:
Thanks a lot...
I hope to use another HR, maybe soldering both to have a unic heatsink.
Also, the temps are really good, here's a screen:
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/7399/capturexwx.png
As can you see, the delta is about 3-4 degrees from idle to full.
Pardulo what is your ambient temperature during the time of record?
Sorry, you right. The temp was about 18,5-19° max.
Fur Mark before 10 min:
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2835/capturer.th.png
Last week, I found a brand new AVC socket478 CPU cooler in my room.
I already forgot when I bought it... I think it lives in my room about a year ...
How can I use it.......:time: :time:
OK, I will mod it into a chipset cooler for my MSI K8N Neo2 (nVidia nForce3 Ultra) ...
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/avc/2.jpg
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/avc/9.jpg
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/avc/10.jpg
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/avc/11.jpg
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/avc/14.jpg
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/avc/20.jpg
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/avc/22.jpg
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/avc/27.jpg
More pics pls visit my blog! ^_^
http://www.lckdanny.com/blog/index.p...wid&post_id=21
Here's what I did in 2006 to my 7900GT-512 SLI setup:
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9658/cnv0009medium.jpg
Above, you can see that this is a Zalman CNPS-6000 Cu cooler that was popular for cooling Thunderbirds back in 2002. I had it lying around and thought it was the most beautiful flower IHS out there, and I already did custom modding to 9800Pro cards in 2004, so I was curious about this one..
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5873/cnv0010medium.jpg
Above are a couple of strips of aluminum metal sheet that was cut out and drilled with holes, used to hold down the hinge that was made for the CPU socket.
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/4...0011medium.jpg
Notice the 4 screws in the holes.
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9...0014medium.jpg
Putting the bolts on..
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/8935/cnv0016medium.jpg
Tightening the bolts by holding it and turning the screw.
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4945/cnv0017medium.jpg
Then I spread out the fins back to the original position. The fins were clumped together so I could access the bolts/screws.
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7...1315medium.jpg
3 powerful fans blowing down from top. Notice the small 40mm fan from Thermalright, sitting directly on the flower heatsink. It's a 7000rpm 40mm chipset fan from Thermalright NB-1C. The Zalman bracket was used for the 80 and 92mm fans.
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/799...1316medium.jpg
For the first card in SLI, a Sytrin Kuformula (Masscool) VF-1 cooler was used, sans the extremely loud, ugly, and oversized blower.
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/185...e298medium.jpg
Another picture, one that shows off the lights. In this one you can see another fan that is a 70mm 4000rpm "SLi" fan that came with Abit Fatal1ty AN8-SLI. It helped to really push down the air through the Kuformula heatsink.
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/487...1319medium.jpg
The Opty 175 was cooled by a Big Typhoon with a 131CFM 38mm x 120mm fan so it ran at 2.9GHz dual-core at 46 degrees max. If I let all those 14 fans run at maximum, it would be almost as loud as a Vantec Tornado!
The temperatures were great, and I could overclock those 7900GT-512MB cards to 7900GTX levels, so that the performance was identical. Those cards were overvolted to 0.05v more than the GTX cards. What I liked about those GT's was that the PCB's were shorter, so I had better access to this "dumpster" case that I kept on modding and gutting out.
Whaddya think? The PSU was a red Vortec 600W SLI, which was great with 37A on a single rail back then when Athlon64's were fussy with <18A split-rails. See here: ( I was always adding/changing stuff, and some of the things were incomplete there like chagning the Plextor bezel to black, etc.. , and doesnt show everything... That was from 3 years ago.)
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/222...e316medium.jpg
I can add more later when I find older pictures of this really unique heatsink I made--it was a reversal "funnel" one that sucked the bejesus out of the heatsink instead of blowing air onto it.
Once upon a time, 5-6 years ago....
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/1087/cnv0022medium.jpg
Here, you can see a 120x38mm fan on the top, connected to a 80-120mm fan adapter, connected to a 60-80mm fan adapter, that is connected to a 60mm copper heatsink.
The 60mm pure copper heatsink is OCZ Gladiator 3 that had a huge thick copper base and skivved fins. It was the best out there, even beating the newer, bigger Volcano 7+ from Thermaltake. It was also heavy.
Anyways, the 120mm fan was mounted so that it blew air upwards, sucking air through the copper fins of the 60mm heatsink. Imagine 131CFM of air entering through those fins. I taped the whole thing up, to make sure that all of the air would only enter through the fins, from the bottom. I could feel hot air blowing out of the fan, and it allowed me to overclock my Athlon XP to 2.7 GHz at 1.8 volt, which was nearly record-breaking for air.
It worked amazingly well, beating anything else out there at that time. Nothing could touch my custom cooler, period--not even after Thermalright released their first copper heatpipe cooler (the SP-97). Yes it was loud, but that was the only way back then in the old days, long before the rise of monster heatpipe coolers.
i added a katana3 to the nb of my rampage:D
extreme cooling indeed:ROTF:
@pardulo: Impressive work, keep it up! Love the low temp difference from idle to load :D
Dang, I don't think I can find pictures of my custom-cooled 9800 Pro from the same time period as my last post above.. gotta look around more, maybe I'll dig it up.. it's a basic CPU cooler, but with a reversed fan. The base had to be dremel'ed with a square outline, so that it would go over the external shim that was raised slightly higher than the GPU chip itself. The 9800pro was volt-modded as high as possible, and I could feel hot air blowing out of the heatsink, which was awesome to observe after taking off that puny stock heatsink that was really pathetic.
Hello to everyone!
My research in custom heatsink's
Glacial Tech Igloo 7700MC CPU cooler on north bridge.
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1922/87747044yc6.jpg
Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 vga cooler and Thermalright HR-05 IFX SLI on miniITX motherboard.
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5836/eajasmall.jpg
More pics of that ITX setup please!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeuroNoise
Wow, NeuroNoise, more pictures!!! Those are great, and you're not doing justice to them with just 1 picture each!
Ok, so I have been bored today. Was thinking of making a custom shroud for my graphics card. I want the air to blow through instead of down onto the GPU. So, doing some quick CAD sketching it looks like a 50mm fan and a 40mm fan will be just stand about 2.15625" tall on the PCB. Would have to use a 40mm to sit on top of the power connectors. My guess work puts that as a triple slot cooler. Question is if this would be beneficial or not before proceeding. I only have a junk 7600gt and my 4890. Dont really want to destroy my 4890 leaving only the drastically different 7600. With the 4890 I could just mod the stock cover to accept my fans. 7600 will require complete fabrication. Would the work be worth it? Can a 50mm and 40mm fan blow enough air to cool the HS better than a stock fan? It would allow good cooling for SLI or CF, but the problem is the 3 slot design. Most mobo have a single slot between PCI 16 slots so dual slot can utilize CF/SLI. So, my design would leave a slot open but at that point, provides nothing over running standard cards in SLI since there would be space between the stock cards also.
Probably stupid and wont work huh?
Nooooooo...., do NOT use those tiny fans!!! The centrifugal fan gives so much more pressure, forcing cool air through those fins. Plus, to have the same amount of air blowing through, you'd have to have those fans running at insane RPM's, at over 7000rpm each. It'd have to be sitting right next to the heatsink for there to be any pressure at all. Well, It could still work for the 7600GT just fine (cooling it nicely), but the 4890 would definitely overheat and crash because the high heat dissipation threshold is not being maintained.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power5
I put my Akasa Neo Vortexx on my Sapphire 4870 1GB card and it actually cools a lot better (about 7-10 degrees C) while doing the OCCT maximum stress test. With this stock cooler http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/...801-TS?$S180W$, it would not stop climbing over 100C as I was running Furmark or the OCCT GPU test, so I do not know how much WORSE this cooler would do than the Neo Vortexx, which is a rather quiet cooler by the way, maxing out at 90C in Furmark but peaking at 70C when Folding..
Also, you could use Sytrin KuFormula VF1 Plus and a different fan blowing down from the top. (See my above post, a few posts up, for pictures). I never used the centrifugal fan blower that came with the cooler because everybody kept on saying that it was way too loud, especially at high setting. Heck, you could mod that blower to move it across the custom heatsink from the side!
I like that akasa, hate that its blue though. I like the other akasa vortex cooler that's red better, but has a lower cooling capacity. Where did you get yours from?
Got mine from newegg.com.. now, the vortexx neo is sold out everywhere except for here: http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/akvoneocoblv.html
What are good (non computer related) devices to scavenge heatsinks from? My father has lots of old electrical equipment in the shed. I have some good ideas to customize the cooling system of my server, but can't be bothered to buy some new heatsinks.
You will have more sucesful findings on AC to DC power supplies, not talking on computers, but general power supplies like linear power supplies. Most of them comes with huge heatsinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by kerberos
push/pull with a rubber band
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d...7112009291.jpg
Good luck with the rubber band. I used to hold on a ghetto fan setup on my memory with rubber bands, the heat kills them pretty quickly. They'd start breaking after about 2 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by skugpezz
[QUOTE=skugpezz;4002953]push/pull with a rubber band
Yeh like Camride said, it will start to break pretty fast.
I found it was much better using cable ties, holds on just as good and will last for years
haha that is ridiculous.
Quote:
Originally Posted by NeuroNoise
The SLK-10K.
Held an AXP 2500+ @ 2.7ghz 2.05v under 49c for over a year ;)
edit - I also made a version that had the dual 60's upside down and using a shroud like the 80 is using but the 80mm still beat them.