For the sake of brevity, 56k, and my own sanity I won't post all of the pictures. You can view them all here.
Okay, here we go.
All packaged up and pretty.
Out of the box - pretty nice cooling actually.
4 heatpipes.
Two 6-pin power connectors.
Included paraphernalia.
The Scythe Slip Streams
iandh's custom RAM and VRM sinks
The standard plain cardboard Thermalright packaging.
A sticker!
A free pen from Petra's Tech Shop. Free things are always nice.
...and a handwritten note. Now that's customer service.
Everything ready to go.
Sapphire's heatsink off.
As expected, Qimonda RAM chips.
Didn't know where to put the thermal pads, so in between plastic they go.
My two best friends.
The core heatsink, nice and clean.
Small and shiny.
VRM heatsink off.
They left little imprints on the thermal pad. Aww, how cute.
Custom RAMsink on!...
...but the VRMsinks don't fit.
I used the RAMsinks included with the T-Rad2 instead.
GPU all AS5'ed up, with a little extra glop for good measure.
(I forgot to take pictures of the AS5 on the RAM!)
T-Rad2 mounted, from the side:
From the top:
And the bottom:
I used two 120mm fans instead of two 92mms or one 120mm. As a result, I had to change things quite a bit. I screwed the left fan into the lower right screw hole of the 92mm fan mount, and used the fan clip in a different way.
The fans (being case fans) didn't have enough side clearance to fit on the card side by side...I had to take a drill to one of them.
But it still won't fit!
After using a file, dremel, and a drill (the drill and dremel were both out of batteries, which added 20 minutes to the already long procedure.) I finally get the two fans mounted...although not extremely pretty. Who cares? It's for the sake of cooling!
My custom paper clip fan clip for the right fan :
All done.
And installed!
--------------------------------------------------------
Idle: 33C
Load: 53C
(Tested with Furmark)
Okay, here we go.
All packaged up and pretty.
Out of the box - pretty nice cooling actually.
4 heatpipes.
Two 6-pin power connectors.
Included paraphernalia.
The Scythe Slip Streams
iandh's custom RAM and VRM sinks
The standard plain cardboard Thermalright packaging.
A sticker!
A free pen from Petra's Tech Shop. Free things are always nice.
...and a handwritten note. Now that's customer service.
Everything ready to go.
Sapphire's heatsink off.
As expected, Qimonda RAM chips.
Didn't know where to put the thermal pads, so in between plastic they go.
My two best friends.
The core heatsink, nice and clean.
Small and shiny.
VRM heatsink off.
They left little imprints on the thermal pad. Aww, how cute.
Custom RAMsink on!...
...but the VRMsinks don't fit.
I used the RAMsinks included with the T-Rad2 instead.
GPU all AS5'ed up, with a little extra glop for good measure.
(I forgot to take pictures of the AS5 on the RAM!)
T-Rad2 mounted, from the side:
From the top:
And the bottom:
I used two 120mm fans instead of two 92mms or one 120mm. As a result, I had to change things quite a bit. I screwed the left fan into the lower right screw hole of the 92mm fan mount, and used the fan clip in a different way.
The fans (being case fans) didn't have enough side clearance to fit on the card side by side...I had to take a drill to one of them.
But it still won't fit!
After using a file, dremel, and a drill (the drill and dremel were both out of batteries, which added 20 minutes to the already long procedure.) I finally get the two fans mounted...although not extremely pretty. Who cares? It's for the sake of cooling!
My custom paper clip fan clip for the right fan :
All done.
And installed!
--------------------------------------------------------
Idle: 33C
Load: 53C
(Tested with Furmark)
Last edited by haffeysucks (2008-12-22 18:22:23)
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