knopflerbruce Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 (edited) Life is kicking my ass for a while (maybe till the end of July), so very little time to OCing etc lately. However, dear Movieman collected a few items for me, including an Areca 1882IX which goes into my daily driver. The tiny cooler is quite noisy and hot, so I had to upgrade... and my motto "never throw stuff away, you don't know what you might need later" was true - got a pair of VF700-Cu's to fit just perfect on it The only question is if I should add some sinks on the chips close to the memory stick, between the two heatsinks... they were passively cooled, but the TDP is 28W or something so they should survive with a little bit of airflow I guess.......? The Gen 3 one I got around the same time will be used for PCMark later The antistatic piece is to avoid direct contact between the cooler and the PCB. Don't think I really need it, but oh well... cost me nothing to put it there. I'm also very happy for avoiding the huge stock screws on the back, as they steal the slot behind the card. Now this is a standard dual slot card, I think Edited April 1, 2015 by knopflerbruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObscureParadox_3XS Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Got a few of those zalman coolers lying around that I totally forgot about, I really want to find a use for them now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 I think they work on other cards as well, like the 1280ML. I know someone used a pair of vf900's on one of the 1882ix's once... so I'm not the first guy to do this that cooler looks alot nicer, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaPaKaH Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Saw the activity on your ebay account, guess we'll hear more from you very soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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