Fanless Card + AS5 + 80mm fan + rubber bands = win

[mystfied]

Boredom strikes.
Idea: Why not stick a fan onto my wonderful MSI Radeon x300se 128MB GDDR2 (+HyperMemory 128MB from system)?
(Personally, I think MSI could have made a better heatsink, with less vanity... but anyways...

Step 1: Use pliers to pop the heatsink retention springy plastic things, from the back.

Step 2: Remove pink sticky gunk a.k.a. "thermal compound." Credit card scrapes it all off.

Step 3: Arctic Silver 5 on zi core.

Step 4: Lap the heatsink (it's aluminum inside... who would have thought)

Step 5: Put heatsink back on.

Step 6: Attach Masscool 80mm blue fan to heatsink with two rubber bands.

Step 7: Reconnect, power up, and overclock more! Max core with ATITool went up by only like 20MHz from the loud PCI-air-sucker from CompUSA... but the card looks supercool now.

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Anyway, if anybody has a heatsink-only card and wants to overclock safely...
Get your friends to chip in for 9+ fans. $3.48/ea shipped.

 

[DDR-PIII]

haha kinda ghetto, kidna cool.

 

[darksparkz]

Those rubber bands better be pretty strong, lol. Maybe you might want to use zip ties too, probably use two combined.

 

[AZNBoiOnFIYA]

wow. that is pretty ghetto, but it works. try putting a shroud or something on that. it might cool a little better.

 

[squads]

heh, i love ghetto mods...they make me chuckle

 

[Bullnettles]

LOL, very ghetto, but I've done them too! If you get a higher OC, who cares what it looks like IMO. You should see some holes I've cut in my case