Made a VRM heat sink for my Gigabyte GTX 460 SOC

[dengyong]

I started with the passive heat sink from an old nvidia 6200. I forgot to take a pic before I cut it.

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I cut this piece out on the band saw. I also cut the fin height down to clear the stock cooler. I drilled holes for push pin retainers, but they turned out to be too tall so I attached the heat sink with adhesive thermal tape instead.

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I used a broken drill bit with the end ground flat, as a mill in the drill press.
The result doesn't look pretty, but it's out of sight and works.

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The stock cooler (tim changed to very thin TX-4) just touches the vrm heat sink, so I never have to worry about the thermal tape letting go.

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I haven't gotten around to overclocking yet, but I'll get it done some time this week.

[pr@$r1g]

Hey man that's gr8 ... I too have installed a Heat sink on my 460 Hwak TALON @ extreme volts it helps a little ... right.

[Boulard83]

Yup. Good work

[CrazyNutz]

Great Job The resistors by the fets made that tricky, but you aced it

[dengyong]

Great Job The resistors by the fets made that tricky, but you aced it

Your work inspired me even though mine doesn't look as good.

[darckhart]

hey that's great! think i'll try something similar with some old cpu heatsinks i have

[JoBu]

Great work Any plans to do the memory chips? Its not alot of space between the chips and the heatsink but i guess it could be done.

[dengyong]

Great work Any plans to do the memory chips? Its not alot of space between the chips and the heatsink but i guess it could be done.

Thanks, no plans for the memory, they get plenty of air flow.