so you might have seen our video a little while back where we chopped up a
gtx titan so it could fit in a single
pci express slot with a card installed
right next to it that mod included water cooling though and we thought
why don't we try and do one better what if we made a single slot card that's
air-cooled alex why don't you quit your bitchin and get
to work so get your angle grinders revving because the gtx titan is going
on the chopping block once again
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out at the link below making a double slot card the height of
a single slot card with air cooling isn't particularly easy if it was then
this would be a lot more common than
this this video has been a long time in the
making so we got to work measuring every important bit of the titan to make a
solidworks model which will actually link if you guys want to make your own
mod to one of these for whatever reason with the model for the single slot
adapter made it was time to print now pla filament would pass the glass
transition temperature when the titan was stressed turning into a deformed
blob so we ended up using abs
with the 3d printed part in hand well one thing became clear and that's
that our calipers hold a zero like a drunk hits a bullseye
but all the critical dimensions were close enough so we just needed to
perform a little bit of massaging to get everything to uh
kind of fit together for our next trick then we'll
need a low profile fan thanks cooler guys you have everything
now we were hoping to cannibalize the fan and mount it where the original fan
went but unfortunately this press fit bearing
holder prevented us from doing so so it was time for super cannibalization with
this angle grinder and the savagery continues the wonderful
cooler mounting plate for the titan well
i'm afraid that anything that was going to be too high to fit in a single slot
was gonna have to go excellent so everything seems to be
coming together fairly well let's move on then to the final step
which brandon dubbed torture porn for nerds
chopping up the heatsink originally we thought that just the good
old angle grinder would do the trick allowing us to relatively easily slice
through these thin fins unfortunately that ended up taking too long and
grinding aluminum is actually really sketchy
so we moved on to our favorite method of heatsink chopping the reciprocating saw
and oh oh god oh no
oh please stop oh the humanity
like we said before using an angle grinder or a reciprocating saw those
would be terrible ideas so we ran out and bought a belt sander
to ensure that we didn't cause any more unnecessary harm to the heat sink while
we cut down its size it really is amazing how much easier
things are when you have the right tool for the job with the heatsink now at the
right height we just had to remove any loose bits of aluminum because if one of
those crosses the traces on the pcb it's game over and then
slap it all together it's actually a little bit easier to
assemble now than stock since there are way less screws
so that's a plus the fan mounts with some strong
double-sided tape the see-through panel had to be glued onto the outside instead
of the inside like on the original model but i mean this was
so that we could maximize the area of the fins because in truth having the
glass on the inside would have meant about 20 percent less cooling
unfortunately though when we went to test it the fan wouldn't work
possibly because of the grinding we could have gotten another fan but if
we're being honest that just wasn't going to be enough airflow anyway so we
went back to the drawing board and designed a 140 millimeter fan to dryer
vent adapter and a new single slot cover inspired by
server gpus without a hole for the fan
the good people at my mini factory printed that up for us the parts arrived
and we could finally smash them into the computer as hard as you guys are
smashing the like button right now so we bolted the adapter to a knock to a
140 millimeter industrial fan at max speed and then squeezed it into the case
before connecting the dryer vent to the graphics card we added some foam to the
back to prevent the dryer vent from shorting anything out we then attached
the vent the red green way lots of duct tape and finished it off with some tuck
tape for that industrial quality seal
now it just needs to be encouraged in and we're good to go
oh my god what is this
wow this actually looks
like shockingly not
i mean the dick butt is sort of unnecessary but uh
does this work where does it exhaust from okay that seems to be a bit of a
design flaw there yeah did you not think to maybe cut vents here like single slot
graphics cards usually do okay okay okay
okay oh boy oh boy
oh buddy oh boy you better shut this baby down
before you overheat here and while we could have spent the rest
of the day taking it all apart modifying it carefully and putting it back
together it was easier to whip out the saw and hack off the last inch of the
cover to give it some breathing room which
hardly helped it all of course it thermal throttled again
because our heatsink was crazy restrictive and getting almost no
airflow also this whole thing was kind of a dumb idea
alex did the calculations before he even
started the project and no matter how much air you push across the fins if
they're that size you're not going to get the cooling needed for a titan so i
guess the real takeaway from today's video is that math exists for a reason
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