OC & Modding Fanning the xfx 8600gt

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spynic

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my 8600gt was buggin me too much, gaming would reach 80..
but idling was bad too.. ~66C
so i tot, id mess around with it...
here it goes.:



didnt attach the ram sinks yet..



used lipstick on the tips of screws, to plot the points on to a paper.



fan off a pentium 4 HS


temp drop of bout 8-10deg
 
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Pics not being displayed; :|

EDIT: Now it is; :)

BTW that stock fan wont serve u any purpose any more since u removed the casing; It wont act as a blower now; so better remove it;

I'd say too much efforts put in although the fan could have been zip-tied r screwed in some way; :p

Nevertheless good job; :)

PS: I hope u've removed the HS and the stock goop n slapped it with some better TIM; Helps much better; :)
 
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spynic

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images should show up now...

@ gannu.. yup i kno.. the stock fan is insignificant now.. but i dont want to take it off, it'll kinda look ugly..

n i like working with acrylic.. so went tru all of this..
 
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nice....any ideas ...will the cardboard able to handle at those temperature inside the cabinet....it is very near to the capacitors..it might make it BLACK...ohhh..u painted it black :)
 
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@sysrq:

i bought this one from canada, so i didn't have local warranty anyways, and the screws used to fix that cover was acting like a b**** ... the heads would wear out, but they wudnt turn..

running on stock clocks.. (not a very good stock heatsink, n im a mild gamer..)

@fangface,

cutting the acrylic took like bout an hour .. n finishing the whole thing was like 3 hrs.. along with my lazy breaks...

@forum67

its not cardboard, its acrylic,.. so there's shouldn't be issues,,..

the brown paper, is just a protective peel-off paper covering for the acrylic.
 
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