ATI GPU cooling

[herd]

FYI, I discovered that the slightly newer versions of the ATI graphics cards have really nice copper heatpipe heatsinks in them. Unfortunately the mounts are different, so I made a bracket to convert the hole pattern. This works great in the MDD as it also blows the hot air out the back instead of stirring it around inside the case. It would probably also work on the Quicksilvers but you'd loose a PCI slot.

Anyway, I don't know if anyone tries to upgrade the cooling on their graphics cards, but this really helped to lower the temperatures on the x850 and FireGL X3 cards that I've done it to.

 

[ArbysTPossum]

Something similar, aftermarket GPU coolers are absolutely a thing. The Radeon X1900 G5 edition has an aftermarket GPU, which strangely looks like it should not be as good, yet is. The density of the copper fins actually restricts air flow, and the single PCIe bay size makes it an absolute heat monster. The aftermarket cooler has a more powerful fan and less fins, but taller fins as it now takes up 2 bays because of the Heatsink height.

 

[mg.man]

Some PeeCee cards had aftermarket coolers as standard - note the two on the right here :

https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/uk-meetup.45032/post-497212