Project: Clockwork

[DonT-FeaR]

rofl... get the thing copper plated look so awesome then

[The boy 4rm oz]

That's a very interesting cooler attachment lol. Am I right by saying that it just clips on rather than acts as a total cooling solution?

One of my friends recently brought a 4850, unfortunately he got a passive cooled one. I put him onto the Thermalright HR-03 and he couldn't be happier, it is an amazing cooler, took temps from 85c load to 45c load without a fan. If the 4670 uses the same mounting holes as a 4850 then you will have no problem installing them. I know you are using the 4670 and these coolers are a bit expensive but they are worth every penny and would really look the part in this mod I think.

[blueonblack]

Actually, the heat sink portion bolts to the GPU like most others, the huge ugly bracket mounts in the adjacent PCI slot and the squirrel cage fan mounts on top of it, blowing air straight down through the fins on the mounted heat sink.


On the HR-03, I had considered that one, as well as the Thermalright V2 Copper Quad-Heatpipe cooler (I *really* like that one), but they are cost-prohibitive, and not nearly as eye-catching as these ugly monsters. In the end, there will be very little shiny inside this case. As little as I can manage, in fact.

If these don't work out, I'll be back on the Thermalright trail...

[DonT-FeaR]

lol at least this will be 100% unique

nice work jase... thinking it trough once again

[Waynio]

Like the look of this blue, i'm subscribing
the copper pipe frame looks well nice, and the frame is sure to be incredibly sturdy and looks very well made

[blueonblack]

Well, my big ugly squirrel-cage VGA cooler came in today. I did some testing and found that it should work fine in the new case, even with the side fan. Here's the box that came in my favorite brown truck:

The box says "build your own cooling". That's exactly what I ended up doing. I found out that it does not fit my video card. I knew that none of the HD series were listed in the official "supported card" list, but I took my chances, hoping ATI hadn't changed their cooler mounting system. They have. You would think that with all the adapters and screws in the box it would be possible to make it fit.

It wasn't. But I didn't give up. Looking at the copper base on the heat sink, you can see there are two channels on each side, that are meant to house the various adapters for (older) ATI & Nvidia cards, and two threaded holes to mount each adapter.

The mounting holes are exactly the same width apart as the mounting holes on my card. But since all of the adapters are bent, the resulting mounting holes don't line up. Obviously I would have to improvise. I had an old steel square laying around that I had never used, and the rule on it was 1/16" thick and fairly good steel. In answer to the delimma I cut my own adapters out of this square.

They had to be the same width as the channels in the copper block and as long as the distance between my mounting holes, and it worked perfectly.

Ugly, but you can't see it anyway. After drilling out the mounting holes on the card itself to accomodate a #6 machine screw, I ran the screws up through the bottom of the card and into machine nuts on the top of the new adapters. (THAT was a joy.) In the end, it all worked out.

I hooked it up with the squirrel cage fan and am using it even now. MUCH quieter than the stock cooling. I was even able to determine that I will be able to fit two of them in a stack in the new case, though the clearances are very tight. It will hide over a quarter of my motherboard. Now all I have to do is figure out how to route Crossfire cables between the two of them.

All's well that ends well, I guess.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Is it me or does the base look kinda slanted? You should really think about lapping the base of the cooler, will work much better. I expected the cooler to be much smaller, from the pics you posted up earlier it looked a lot smaller lol.

[blueonblack]

I couldn't see any slant to it whan I had it in hand, that's probably a trick of the light in the pic. As for the lapping, yes it could use it, but it is doing an excellent job so far with the fan on the lowest speed, and with the trouble I had getting the thing on there it can stay. Maybe someday when this thing is done and I'm bored I'll pull them apart and lap both of them, but I doubt it.

I think the pic I posted earlier showed it mounted on a large card. The 4670 is actually pretty small.

Can you believe the blades on the fan are metal? The whole thing is either metal or rubber (lots of isolation mounts for the fan and motor), no plastic.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Sooooooooo............basically............you have a blender attached to your GPU LOL .

[Waynio]

Nice job on getting it mounted blue