Modding My GTX 780 Ti

[ahimoth]

Looks lovely mate.

 

[Dicehunter]

Awesome mod here, dice. How long did it take you to do?

Thank you, All together from start to finish including drying and baking around 5 hours

Looks lovely mate.

Thank you

 

[Dicehunter]

I think this little mod had an unexpected beneficial side effect, My general temps of the GPU have dropped by 4'c, Same ambient temps.

I'm guessing it has something to do with tempering the metal maybe

 

[remember300]

maybe or if you reseated it and used new pads and thermal pads they may be more efficient

 

[Dicehunter]

maybe or if you reseated it and used new pads and thermal pads they may be more efficient

Nope nothing like that, You don't actually remove the cooler when doing this mod only the 5 metal pieces around it which are held on with around 12+ screws.

I did ask a friend of mine about metallurgic properties who does blacksmithing which I think is just freaking cool, Anyway he said that by heating the metal up for a prolonged period of time I would of re-aligned the molecules i.e heat treated the metal making it's heat dissipation properties slightly better, Personally I think it's just wizardry ^_^

 

[Cru]

i know very little about that but afaik that's pretty much used to harden the metal (only steel?)
didn't know it could affect the heat dissipation properties

 

[MadShadow]

Well there you go, guys. Cook your graphics card for better performance

 

[Dicehunter]

i know very little about that but afaik that's pretty much used to harden the metal (only steel?)
didn't know it could affect the heat dissipation properties

Well this friend of the family has been a blacksmith for the past 23 years so if he says something about metal I'm listening to him

Well there you go, guys. Cook your graphics card for better performance

I only baked 4 pieces of metal from the coolers shroud ^_^

 

[Cru]

Well this friend of the family has been a blacksmith for the past 23 years so if he says something about metal I'm listening to him

well year ofc. we only had a brief look at the iron-carbon-diagram at school
i know the basics but i'm not gonna doubt your friend lol

 

[Kaapstad]

Here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InRDF_0lfHk

Great Video, now where I have I seen it before.

Nice job on the card Dicehunter.

Don't forget the benches in the appropriate threads.

 

[gian83xxx]

nice job

 

[Dicehunter]

Nice job on the card Dicehunter.
Don't forget the benches in the appropriate threads.

Thank you, I'll get to benching properly when I get time next weekend, Should get some nice scores

nice job

Thank you

 

[corasla]

Benching or no benching, your setup and especially your video card mod looks absolutely stunning!!! Congrats mate! "You da' real MVP!".

 

[RisaFujiyama]

I just wondering, is there anyone doing it with white paint instead??