GTX 460 aftermarket coolers

[azureoval]

Looking at the specs of the gt 03 vs spitfire it seems the spitfire is slightly narrower. Think this would fit on a palit card ? This would be in a MM ufo case with the cpu being watercooled.

[Notechis]

Well I'm gonna take Kets advice and trim the offending edge,just need to find some time and the right tools.

[Ket]

A dremel will probably be the best bet.

[Notechis]

A dremel will probably be the best bet.

I was thinking that also but I fried my dremel a few weeks ago and the only friend who has it is on vacation until 28th this month, so until he returns ....

[LiveLongerDays]

I love ghetto custom coolers, they are the best.

[Quad-Damage]

Whats the cheapest way to h20 one of these bad boys?

[azureoval]

Whats the cheapest way to h20 one of these bad boys?

I've decided to bite the bullet and throw a mcw80 on my Palit. It should just bolt right on. I have it and another radiator coming later this week. I may get bold and cut the IHS off for max perf. The block itself is less than most high-end aircooling solutions. Most which won't fit my tiny card.

[Ket]

I was thinking that also but I fried my dremel a few weeks ago and the only friend who has it is on vacation until 28th this month, so until he returns ....

The waiting... its agony isn't it

[Clemmaster]

I'm waiting for an accelero S1 that should arrive soon enough! This will go on my Gainward GLH. Don't worry about the backplate issue, I managed to fit the S1 on a HD4770 which has the chip even closer to the left, just need some scissors

This is the best aftermarket cooling for graphic cards, for 20eur + any 120mm regulated fan it works like a charm \o/

[roki977]

Looks like TR t-rad2 gtx can fit palit gtx460 sonic. It is very good cooler with 2x80,92mm fans on it. Cooled my ex 5870 below 50c under load. Distance between the holes is the same as on 5870/50.

correction,can not. t-rad is to long by about 1cm or less . Heatpipes are on the way and there is no help for it.

But Spitfire fits on Sonic .

[CrArC]

Ah, fantastic thread. I have a hot and loud Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum!

I switched my stock heatsink with a Thermalright V2 VGA cooler, and a <21dBA 29.4CFM 80x25mm fan. Fits just fine

Temps are perhaps a tiny bit hotter with 85deg under load compared to 81deg, but without the maniacal scream of a million tiny orange fins. I measure circa 40dBC a foot from the case when gaming as opposed to nearly 55, much better.

The VRMs though- oh, my Far too hot for my liking. The TR V2 doesn't allow enough air through its little fins and the stock heatsink had a nice shroud over it to push the expelled air over those hot components.

I've read about people gently bending heatpipes out of harm's way - could this not be possible with the TR T-Rad 2?

EDIT: Might we not also get by with this? : http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalo...ath=2_&mID=256

[Ket]

That cooler might work, but any cooler we get to fit right now is going to be modded in some way I would imagine. I hope good 3rd party 460 coolers come out soon. I have no spare fan headers so need a cooler that uses the graphics card fan connection. Stock fan on my 460 is way too loud.

[Notechis]

That cooler might work, but any cooler we get to fit right now is going to be modded in some way I would imagine. I hope good 3rd party 460 coolers come out soon. I have no spare fan headers so need a cooler that uses the graphics card fan connection. Stock fan on my 460 is way too loud.

Agreed, but for graphic cards with custom pcbs like Gainward & Palit, which are shorter then reference pcb, 3rd party coolers will be quite difficult to find so modding existing coolers may be the only option (I hope I'm wrong)

And don't start me talking about the noise, Palit & Gainward are using powerlogic fans PLA08015B12HH which are rated 33.950CFM at 3500rpm and 37dB (I really doubt that, 50dB is more likely). It's like putting your head in a vacuum cleaner so I'm planing to put scythe slipstream 120mm 1200rpm to my HR-03. I've got 3 in my case and you can hardly hear them.

[Ket]

Yea its a damn shame. Stock 460 coolers are good but what the hell were they thinking with the fans? I have a 34cfm 80mm akasa fan that would of been perfect for my 460. I wish manufacturers would be more forward thinking. Especially the ones using designs that allow the fan to easily be removed. Wouldn't of taken much to adapt the design on the drawing board to let users pick their own fans.

[Clemmaster]

Ok, accelero S1 is a no go for GTX 460, at least the gainward I have. I was planning on cutting the outer part of the fins like I did on my HD4770 but I didn't pay attention well: the dual DVI make the operation impossible!!! I decided to cut the heat-pipe that is blocked by this fu*** port (S1 is cheap :p, I now have a S1.5 ) but it was not a good idea...
I can fit the S1 on the GTX now, but it's only good at idling! I get 27°C with a 120mm fan on it, but once in burning, the temperature rises really fast, it reached 95°C when I stopped kumbustor

I'm wondering how the stock cooler can perform so "well" with only 2HP and half the surface of the S1

The mounting is not OK for the S1 anyway, I had to bend the mouting part a bit to manage to screw it (fuc***g heat spreader...)

[RoughNeck]

Loud Palit Sonic goes Silent

Bevore



Palit is joking with a none Heatpipe Cooler and an loud Noisemaker. OC to 850 GPU by 0.975 Volt and 80° average Temp (Bad Company 2).


After



Low Noise Heatpipe Cooler "Musashi" works fine. OC to 850 GPU by 0.975 Volt and 55° average Temp (Bad Company 2).

[Mungri]

^^

You should reduce those pictures to around 1024 res and then embed them fully (not before reducing them though). No one is going to wait for them to fully load when clicking on them, and the thumbnails are ever so small.

[cowie]

man the sonic stock heatsink looks hurting
Musashi seems to be one of the better coolers for the boltspace of the palit cards that fits.

If your useing the palit platium card i would not bang your head over it too much.Just remove 4 screws to take off fan and shroud,then just mount a 120 fan of your choise.
with a paste change and fan it was quite and 4-5c cooler,plus the vmr area has more air over them to help keep them cool even if you dont put sinks on them.

[askimo]

I can confirm the Thermalright HR-03 GT doesn't work with the Galaxy GTX 460 GC

[RoughNeck]

man the sonic stock heatsink looks hurting
Musashi seems to be one of the better coolers for the boltspace of the palit cards that fits.

If your useing the palit platium card i would not bang your head over it too much.Just remove 4 screws to take off fan and shroud,then just mount a 120 fan of your choise.
with a paste change and fan it was quite and 4-5c cooler,plus the vmr area has more air over them to help keep them cool even if you dont put sinks on them.

Palit wanted to save apparently with the Sonic every cent. I wanted to buy, actually, the Gainward Golden to sample, but it was sold off and the cheapest one was the Sonic.
Because Gainward Palit heard I thought they use Brightly the same cooler also with the Sonic like with the Platinum or Goes Like.
Unfortunately, this was a mistake and the cooler in connection with quiet 92 or 120 fans produced worse results than with the original to fan.

[CrArC]

That Musashi looks like a good idea, I'll give one of those a try. There's one floating around eBay nearby I'll try and take some photos of different angles to show the fit.

[RoughNeck]

But care
Only the Palit and Gainward Cards still have the G92 drillings, for all the other Cards would have to be modified of the Musashi even more.

2H Crysis Warhead Gaming and the max Temp are 73° by 875GPU und 1.025 Volt. The Musashi is really a good old cooler.

[CrazyNutz]

Hey guys, here's my palit gtx460 1gb sonic with a dangerden maze5. It fits perfect! Load temps down from 68 to 39.

Also I have flashed it with the Sonic Platnum bios (700/1400/3600 to 800/1600/4000, and ups the stock vgpu to 1.00v).

One thing to note here is, you MUST have cool air moving over the vreg section! The caps and inductors also get very hot unless you have a fan on them, and this also makes the 3 dram chips
near the back of the card get very hot. Notice the missing ramsinks (not the one on the front, i removed that one) they fell off due to very high temps from the vreg section. With a lowspeed fan
on it no problems.

[Ket]

*slap!* Jammy bastage. Alright for those who use water

[CrArC]

Wow, 39 degrees! You made me think about a CoolIT Eco ALC I had floating about somewhere. Not a chance in hell of it fitting with stock mounting brackets but that's the thing - they're changeable I had wondered... what if some custom brackets were cut and drilled? I shall have to consider this. Depends how super-jealous I feel for not having water-cooled graphics in the near future :P