Arctic Cooling NV5 Silencer on 6600GT AGP

Arctic Cooling NV5 Silencer on 6600GT AGP mod

( per quanto ne so c'è solo un'altra persona al mondo che ha fatto questo mod e che ha pubblicato in rete il suo lavoro. Questa persona è Dr. Lex e la sua straordinaria pagina Web la puoi trovare qui. Io ho deciso di eseguire a mia volta questo mod dopo aver visto la sua pagina Web )

( as far as i know there is only one other person in the world that has made this mod and published his work on the net. This person is Dr.Lex and you can find his amazing web page here. I have decided to going on this mod after i found his web page )

MSI NX6600GT-VTD128 with its retail cooler

Close view of the coolers retention mechanism

Coolers removed

Two capacitors at the right of the HSI chip were removed because too much tall...

...and then placed back on the rear of the board

Here you can see the copper base plate and the four retention screws of the NV5 cooler

Using OpenOfficeDraw and few pictures i have tried to find the position that better fit the shape of the NV5 cooler on the GPU and Ram chips.

If you want give it a look you can dowload here the OpenOfficeDraw document i have used. Of course to open that document you have to install the OpenOffice.org 2.0 suite. To get your free copy of OpenOffice.org, the FREE professional office suite, go to www.openoffice.org

M2 screws, a couple of unused cooler springs, and a BIC ink pipe; that's all i have used.

M2 screws are very hard to find. I was able to get few of them from SchraubenSeifert eBay store.

The copper base of the NV5 cooler has been cutted and the new M2 screws put in place.

Made a shaped hole on the NV5 plexiglass chassy because of too much tall capacitors

The exhaust has been shortened...

Thermal pads in place and silver thermal grease spread over GPU and HSI chips

NV5 cooler mounted

The original retention mechanism were recycled and now it looks like this.

One of the memory chips was left uncovered by the heatsink base of the NV5 cooler; so i bought a set of eight pure 100% copper BGA heatsink from ThermalTake and modded one of them to be able to put it well on the uncovered RAM chip

Close look to the mounted BGA memory heatsink

NX6600GT-VTD128 with its new modded Arctic Cooling NV5 Silencer installed

Questions and comments are welcome.
To ask a question or post a comment, please follow this link: http://controsensi.blogspot.com/2008/05/arctic-cooling-nv5-silencer-on-6600gt.html

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