first there's the rattling then the squealing and then
there's the embarrassment about your poor performance
these are all symptoms of driving my car
just kidding sort of but
they are also symptoms of a broken GPU
cooler and we're going to show you guys the red green way to fix it
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we'll be attempting to fix broken fans on both a rear exhaust blower style GPU
and an open cooler style GPU with our
samples being this gtx titan x and this
ASUS gtx 1070. both of them are actually working just
fine by the way they was just in the wrong place at the
wrong time if you've ever tried to do something
like this you've probably noticed that replacement parts for video card coolers
pretty much aren't a thing even for extremely common ones like NVIDIA's
reference heatsink so we're gonna take a basic
off-the-shelf reasonably high static pressure fan and
examine how close we can get to the original one's performance
but first a disclaimer doing basically
anything we're about to show you will void the warranty of your GPU if you
pull out one of these you're basically done
this guide is really intended for the graphics card that's
a couple years old now but is still performing well enough that you don't
want to upgrade yet if you still have an active warranty
get the manufacturer to fix it for you instead
okay then so with that out of the way the exact tools that you'll need for
this job depend a little bit on what kind of GPU you have some of them can be
fully disassembled with just a small phillips head screwdriver while others
will require a full ifixit kit or similar
we also recommend though having a magnetic parts tray
some thermal compound some compressed air
a couple zip ties uh yes this will be
one of uh those kinds of guides
as well as i don't know maybe some duct tape uh fan speed controller and uh some
hot glue yeah it's uh
definitely one of those kinds of guides let's start by getting some initial
readings first we want to know just how much of a
difference it actually makes when your GPU fan stops spinning so you just need
to taper up like that and then
the real show begins
and in a huge surprise to
no one with no airflow the performance of these
cards absolutely tanked the titan x went from
a silky smooth 135 to a cinematic
about 25 and at a core clock of 400 megahertz is
basically unusable while the non-reference design 1070 did
fare a little better even in our torture
scenario of simulating the death of all three fans at once it throttled to one
gigahertz and about 90 FPS after a half
an hour a testament to both the efficiency of pascal and
the clear value of this larger heatsink
though with that said it's obviously still unacceptable performance so it's
time to fix it up start by removing the
shroud generally speaking a policy of
you know remove any screws that look related and
take lots of pictures while you go is a
pretty safe bet here from here you'll need to unplug any
lighting and power leads remove the fans with a bit more unscrewing so we just
got five screws there each then oop
there's some tape uh yeah more tape than i thought yeah
and boom you got yourself a bare heatsink
we're gonna secure our new fans with some zip ties
that's right making sure of course to use decent ones so that they don't melt
under a high load or get brittle and break over time
i think this will work a lot better than stock this really wasn't quite what i had in mind for this one
next we need to power our fans looks
pretty good hey normally the easiest way is to run the
cables to your motherboard or to a fan
controller boop just like that
now you could reuse the original fan header on your graphics card which would
allow you software control in your GPU overclocking dashboard but
it should be noted that some GPU fans
are very very power efficient and the header might not be designed for
something a little more power hungry so there is a chance that you could draw
too much from it as for the titan x we've actually
thoroughly covered the pain in the butt disassembly process for this guy here so
we won't go into too much detail now but what we didn't show last time was how to
remove the screws holding the fan in and
extract the fan with a little bit of muscle and some help from a heat gun
okay then now that the fan is out you can put the shroud back together and
then attach the fans using the same technique that we did last time
one thing that i would suggest kind of adding to the technique
from the previous card though is some means of sealing around your fan so
you've got a couple different options for that hot glue would be one maybe some kind of
a of a double-sided like a foam tape but
we're gonna go with good old-fashioned tuck tape
okay not bad hey the results ended up being a
bit of a mixed bag um so the ASUS 1070
actually exceeded even my fairly optimistic expectations we ended up
boosting to 2038 megahertz giving us an extra five
frames per second in crisis versus the original three fans and we
reached a maximum of 58 degrees celsius
so honestly
especially considering that we didn't even have to take off and replace thermal compound to
do this i can't think of a good reason not to do this to any GPU that you can
easily take the shroud off this freaking rocks
as for our other card that one was a little disappointing especially given
that this is a mod that i have personally performed in the past we
ended up reaching a maximum of 91 degrees celsius and only about 600
megahertz on the GPU to be clear that's better than no airflow at all
but if you're running a very high power GPU you are either going to have to get
a little bit more creative about your cooling uh perhaps removing the shroud
altogether and you know attaching the fan directly to the fins would help or
using a much much more powerful fan
or you are just going to have to
take it on the chin and order a full cooler off of ebay
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