Hello everyone. I am looking for the above card and I am looking for one that is broken and not working. Why? Because I plan to takeoff the heat sink and figure out if there’s a practical way to use water cooling.

 

If you have an old card, it’s not in working order I would like to acquire it or I will happily pay for shipping if you donate it to the cause of science!

 

I’ve seen the bolt on fan options and while they seem effective, I feel compelled to look for a better solution. If you can help me out, please contact me.

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, JFMartin said:

I’ve seen the bolt on fan options and while they seem effective, I feel compelled to look for a better solution. If you can help me out, please contact me.

Why ? (It's a genuine question.)

 

I get it for a modern CPU or GPU that would have better performance with better cooling,

For simpler chip like a disk controller or NIC, etc. there are no benefit. Good enough is actually good enough. Often the bolt-on fan is not even required if there is enough airflow in the general area of the heatsink.

 

If it's for a fun project, sure. But it will be more complicated, more expensive, less reliable.

All good points, and it’s admittedly more to see what can be done. 

10 hours ago, ChatNoir said:

....less reliable.

 

This caught my eye - why do you think it would be less reliable?  Thanks in advance. 

It would depend on the WC system you use, but I would consider that a WC system has more components thus more single points of failure than a simple fan and that it makes it reliable as a whole.

One fan can fail let's say it's 90% reliable on a given period of time.

If you have one fan on your WC, at least two tubes, 4 connection points, one pump, one rad (I will not consider a reservoir that might be integrated with another component, same thing for the waterblock). I'll be optimistic and say that all of them have a 95% reliability on the same period of time. I am pretty sure that's overall not as reliable as a single fan.

 

And if it fails, you then have no cooling at all on the chip rather that less cooling with the base heatsink + a fan somewhere (attached to it or on the case).

 

From my point of view, it's not something that I would try on a server that can run 24/7.

Especially considering the higher cost, the lack of performance increase and that there is probably no sensor on the board that you can easy read and receive and alert from.

9 minutes ago, ChatNoir said:

It would depend on the WC system you use, but I would consider that a WC system has more components thus more single points of failure than a simple fan and that it makes it reliable as a whole.

One fan can fail let's say it's 90% reliable on a given period of time.

If you have one fan on your WC, at least two tubes, 4 connection points, one pump, one rad (I will not consider a reservoir that might be integrated with another component, same thing for the waterblock). I'll be optimistic and say that all of them have a 95% reliability on the same period of time. I am pretty sure that's overall not as reliable as a single fan.

 

And if it fails, you then have no cooling at all on the chip rather that less cooling with the base heatsink + a fan somewhere (attached to it or on the case).

 

From my point of view, it's not something that I would try on a server that can run 24/7.

Especially considering the higher cost, the lack of performance increase and that there is probably no sensor on the board that you can easy read and receive and alert from.

 

Thanks - appreciate your thought process.