hey
i've got me a zalman cnps3100cu flower cooler not doing anything, and i figured i would try to mount it onto my graphics card.
i've managed to mark out a bracket onto some steel sheet although i did make a card mock-up and it would definetly fit and hold it in place, although i am a little wary with hanging a huge lump of copper off the ti4800
what i would like to know is, would it be possible to run the graphics card passively after mounting the flower cooler?i'm actually not gna bend any of the fins, as i can still keep the sound card where it is and just have to move my intel nic down to the last slot which is ok.
i will also mount an 80mm fan blowing THROUGH the heatsink, not on top of as it would be mounted on a cpu, but blowing through the sides of the fins, as there are slots within each fin which i hope will be enough to actually allow some level of cooling, although this fan will be on a switch, so will only really be turned on when the temp of the heatsink gets too high, will be monitoring it using a probe off my aerogate, am gna cut the bracket when i get in from work today, and will see if it'd actually work.
just need to know whether it'd be safe to run it passively.i dont really game much and am even considering UNDERclocking the gpu, i only really use the machine to browse the net and word/excel/publisher work.
thanx all!
i've got me a zalman cnps3100cu flower cooler not doing anything, and i figured i would try to mount it onto my graphics card.
i've managed to mark out a bracket onto some steel sheet although i did make a card mock-up and it would definetly fit and hold it in place, although i am a little wary with hanging a huge lump of copper off the ti4800
what i would like to know is, would it be possible to run the graphics card passively after mounting the flower cooler?i'm actually not gna bend any of the fins, as i can still keep the sound card where it is and just have to move my intel nic down to the last slot which is ok.
i will also mount an 80mm fan blowing THROUGH the heatsink, not on top of as it would be mounted on a cpu, but blowing through the sides of the fins, as there are slots within each fin which i hope will be enough to actually allow some level of cooling, although this fan will be on a switch, so will only really be turned on when the temp of the heatsink gets too high, will be monitoring it using a probe off my aerogate, am gna cut the bracket when i get in from work today, and will see if it'd actually work.
just need to know whether it'd be safe to run it passively.i dont really game much and am even considering UNDERclocking the gpu, i only really use the machine to browse the net and word/excel/publisher work.
thanx all!