I replaced my His cooler with a Club3D cooler 7850

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Hey everyone,
I wanted to do this log a long long time ago but just haven't gotten to it yet.

Quite some time ago i opened this topic 6850 on 7850
And i did it ;)
so here are the pictures and the story.

i first bought a broken Club3D 6850 for cheap just for the heatsink

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the upper gpu was my HIS 7850, the lower one is the Club3D 6850 i bought.

So i first took off the coolers and cleaned them really good.

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Then i switched the fan connections on the Gpu's themselves

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and i tried to put it on however it did not fit right away, so i needed to modify it abit.

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The tube was a bit too big so i made a dent in it with the side of a big screwdriver
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One capacitor was also a bit too tall so i cut a little piece out of the fins with a dremel
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And i cut away a small piece of the shroud.
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and now it does all fit:

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Now the temps right?
YES

Idle stock cooler = 41 degrees Celsius
Idle mod cooler = 39 degrees Celsius

So not worth it for that..
But now the load temps
These temps were directly after a full Unigine Valley Benchmark

**Load stock cooler = 79 degrees Celsius
Load mod cooler = 67 degrees Celsius!**

Thats a whopping 12 degree difference!

now the noise levels.
the noise with the stock cooler was a lot!
the noise with the mod cooler was a little

in my opinion it's more worth it because of the noise decrease than the temps haha
but it was a huge succes!!
i also managed to get a higher overclock because of the lower temps (the temps are 75 now with 1210core 1150mem OC)

here stock

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and here modded

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please let me know what you think in the comments below!

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yeah cool. but does it run crysis?

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Yes
Crysis 1 , 2 and 3 on 1080p

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Wow that HIS heatsink looks crappy. Is it just me or does the actual heatsink part of it look like a slightly warped, stock intel CPU heatsink, with a copper plate attached to it's bottom. lol

As for the mod. Seems like way too much trouble, IMO. Would have been easier (and way better) to just purchase a used 120mm AiO liquid cooler, and slap a kraken G10 on that thing. Idle temps would become your ambient room temp, and load temps would never exceed 40c. (UNLESS your house is abnormally hot. lol)

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i did similar with my 7950 i replaced the stock with a gigabyte 3 fan cooler.

all was good until i realised the fans wernt actually spinning,may have cooked the card fml

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Looks just like what you said! I did want to say though that HiS' new cards (at least my R9 270X) have very nice, high quality heatsinks with metal shrouds. :P

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i-am pretty sure i can't get a used 120mm AiO liquid cooler and a kraken G10 for 10,- euro's.....

And i don't have room for another 120mm rad

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heh...
good thing i did check the fan haha,
too bad tough