aftermarket cooling for GTX 280?

[sonofander]

Is there an aircooling soloution for the GTX 280?
I'm moving from water back to air and I can't handle the temps I'm seeing on these cards so I'm in search!!!

any help will be appreciated

[LuckyNV]

HR-03 GTX is coming, also a T-rad GTX is in the works too, from Thermalright, none yet available, but should be very soon.

Other than that no other coolers fit since its yet a different mounting hole layout

[dengyong]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=199495

[roller11]

The stock HS on the gtx280 is pretty good, it's the
small, noisy, high RPM, low airflow inefficient fan that's bad, so I removed it. I replaced it with a 120mm and positioned it so that it blows directly into the open HS fins. This way, you get more cooling at reduced noise level. It's sort of a pain because nvidia booby trapped the cards by casting 8 hidden clips in the shell which must be defeated to seperate the baseplate from the shell, but I figured out a way to do it without leaving any scratches/marks.
Since you have to remove the shell anyway when the HR-03 GTX becomes available, do it now and have a better solution. Nobody has any idea when the thermalright will be out, no dates have been posted, could be a very long time.

[Kondik]

After my modding my GTX dropped by 10 [ from 85 to 75 ] degrees with full cover Stock cooler , will still wait for the Thermalright, got TR everywhere , missing one on VGA would demolish my vision of thermalrightet case Still I'd love to see lower temps on VRM's and GPU , will get the TR GTX anyway

[Razrback16]

Is there an aircooling soloution for the GTX 280?
I'm moving from water back to air and I can't handle the temps I'm seeing on these cards so I'm in search!!!

any help will be appreciated

Why are you moving from water to air?

[Anemone]

The TRad design much like the DualOrb and similar 2 fan designs are going to be very useful to air coolers. Surprised that TR hasn't copied the DualOrb, though perhaps that's what the TRad was intended to do. Conceptually spreading out and getting a lot of surface area with fans blowing on the cards to enhance the memory cooling too, without taking up too many slots (like the HR03 designs do) is the right direction.

[LuckyNV]

what are you smoking, the T-rad looks nothing like the du-orb rofl

and there is a reason why Thermalright hasn't used a similar design of the du-orb too :p