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Passively Cooling A Radeon RX 480 Polaris GPU
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Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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Originally posted by Melcar View PostWant to do something similar to my Nitro+ RX480. One of the fans has already developed bearing noises (and it's less than a year old). I know I could request another fan from Sapphire, but I have had bad experiences with RMA services to Mexico from foreign companies. I was looking at the Accelero coolers too (have used them in the past), but I just know those backplates will hit my NH-D15. I could just not use it, but then how do I cool the VRM? I may just end up strapping a fan to the stock cooling block with zipties.
Anyway, what I did was to take a cheap 80mm chassis fan I had laying around here and fixed it in place of the faulty cooler. I had to cut some plastic of these chassis fan (NOT the VGA!!!, the screw holes on the cheap cooler) to put it the closest possible of the heatsink, and fixed it in place with 2 cable ties. For now I connected the fan (3 pin, constant 2000 rpm) on the motherboard. Fired up and voila, the thing stays cool as it should. To be fair, the fan I put there is kinda weak and the card get about 5°C above the temp the original VGA fan can do, but the card is not throttling.
I just got a new chassis fan from Arctic Cooling, 92mm, 4 pin variable speed, that should have better performance than the original one and I will see if it can use the original connector on the VGA card.
https://www.arctic.ac/worldwide_en/a...9-pwm-pst.htmlLast edited by M@GOid; 02 December 2017, 05:07 PM.
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Originally posted by thelongdivider View PostDoes any one else have the issue that no pictures display in these articles? Text and graphs are fine, but no pictures.Michael Larabel
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Originally posted by willmore View PostNo, it most certainly does not. Check your sources.
Edit: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/glossary/ind...ord=Fahrenheit
Last edited by DanL; 02 December 2017, 07:25 PM.
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All of the PC cooling articles and benchmarks I've seen on other sites seem to use C. That's the main thing - not whether a handful of countries still cling to archaic systems of measure out of some confusion with real cultural heritage. Especially since the readership of this site is international.
Anyway, that cooler is friggin' huge. I guess it's interesting to see what it takes to passively cool one of these beasties, though.
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Actually it seems the USA officially uses the metric system since 1893: https://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
Also: https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/f...tric/1136a.pdf
The U.S. adopted the metric system in 1866. What the U.S. has failed to do is to restrict or prohibit the use of traditional units in areas touching the ordinary citizenLast edited by stqn; 02 December 2017, 07:33 PM.
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