How to cool down old stuff

[Dreadlockyx]

Let's take a single-slot, low-profile Radeon HD 2400 Pro (128Mb).

 

After vmodding the card with tape (and not soldering sh*t, it's useless ) we have to cool it. Why not stick a Socket 462 heatsink on it ?

 

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Since this brand new dual-slot card take some place we had to move it to the bottom of the motherboard. To hold the heatsink on the GPU we use red ribbons with plastic zips. Other color ribbons may improve heat dissipation.

 

Also, don't forget the fan.

 

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Results were not good enough. The core was not even in contact with the surface of the heatsink. We decided to do a stack of two heatsinks. The card is now triple-slot.

 

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We managed to get it into the first PCI-Express slot. Success !

 

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Notice how the card is bent:

 

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Finally, we put the black heatsink since the big grey one was crap.

 

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It still didn't work so let's get to our conclusion:

 

1) We can transform single-slot cards into double-slot cards.

2) We can transform single-slot cards into triple-slot cards.

3) We can make low-profile cards look cool.

4) The ribbon is a lie.

5) Don't forget the fan.

6) Air cooling < LN2

[Christian Ney]

Man you shall feel bad

[Dreadlockyx]

Also, the live test:

 

[Dreadlockyx]

Man you shall feel bad

 

Why ? It's not even suffering.

[der8auer]

This red gift ribbon just perfects the whole thread

[Apfelkuchen]

I did this once with an old Ati 9250 and some of the heatsinks of a REX.

 

Smart decision, the only thing this card has rendered since are blackscreens with pink squares.

[Vinster]

Great post...

 

Vin

[GunGod]

Also, the live test:

 

 

Prefer 8bit Rosenrot

[I.M.O.G.]

Quit screwing around... Grab a sandwich bag and dry ice and get that sucker subzero.

 

We did an article on that a couple years ago:

http://www.overclockers.com/extreme-gpu-cooling-extreme-budget

[Dreadlockyx]

I'm going to try your dice technique.

 

Prefer 8bit Rosenrot

 

While benching, right ?

[Vinster]

Quit screwing around... Grab a sandwich bag and dry ice and get that sucker subzero.

 

We did an article on that a couple years ago:

http://www.overclockers.com/extreme-gpu-cooling-extreme-budget

 

I love it... lol

 

Vin

[Dreadlockyx]

Alright, we really needed to get this working so we finally managed to put an old S939 heatsink on it. The red ribbon is dead, sorry.

 

First, we need to "insulate" the core area so that the heatsink won't make a short circuit

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Then, we "zip-paste" the heatsink on the board:

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Here you can observe the good contact with the die/core:

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Here is a before/after vmod shot (the old one being done with tape, the new one is slightly more decent):

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Final version, ready for benching:

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And as always, bent card. That's kind of a footprint of me...

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Finally, live shot of the event:

 

 

Stay tuned for extreme(ly) (ghetto) overclocking of this board !

[Dreadlockyx]

Just before we get into ghetto extreme 3D overclocking, let's prepare our memory modules for extreme performance.

 

For this we need:

 

- external hard drive case (metallic)

- some tools

 

First, cut the case in two pieces:

 

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Since edges are a little bit sharp, we have to fix it:

 

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Finally, we can see there is more free space. This is particularly useful when using motherboards with totally unoptimized DIMM slot layout (like the Crosshair III Formula):

 

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Tomorrow, extreme overclocking on RAM, CPU (of course) and maybe GPU ! Stay tuned.