Quote Originally Posted by Reckless187 View Post
I would have thought the stock plate is made out of aluminium. You can buy sheets of copper off ebay, cut a piece to size maybe a 1 or 2mm think peice and bung it in there. I could send the stock plate to my mate who could measure it up using this funky 3-D mapping tool, it's like a pen on the end of a robotic arm thingy (getting technical now) where you set a datum point and touch the pen around the object you want to map 3 dimensionally and it gives you all the correct dimesions for the item, then you load that into a CNC or milling machine and knock up a perfect copy! Anyone wanna donate a thick enough copper plate to make a copy out of? :p
well i looked at the non red part of the stock plate and its a pretty dark grey and it feels really firm. i thought it would be aluminum as well but it doesn't seem like it. i haven't taken it off the cooler yet tho to see how much it weighs. but making a copper version of the stock plate would be amazing. especially if it would think that the thermal pads are part of the card. they would probably be too thick tho because they at least compress with pressure. but i would go for it if i was you. you could even simplify it and take off parts of it to reduce costs if you needed to. then while you are at it you might as well add some fins and heatpipes that lead out to fans. EXTREME VRAM/VRM COOLER.