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Alea jacta est: Arctic goes 470

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The solution: not sold anywhere.


As my Dremel drilling bits went fubar, I used a professional sewing disc to cut the metal, just enough so that my screws would 'autofit' :)


I had to cut off a part of the RAM sink (original was symmetric)


Another view of the plate. I was lucky enough to have screws and rubber spacers of the correct height.


The final result:


I wanted to use the Arctic part because of 1) 4pin fan to VGAboard and 2) guaranteed silence.

After booting and doing some Kombuster testing: it would never pass 82ºC during stress test!!!!

It is damn hot these days and with stock cooling i would idle at 55ºC these days.

Now I am at 42ºC :)

And these Arctic fans are silent at 100% ! :)

I feel only sorry for them because they have not launched this or similar to the market :)
 
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Just to add some details: the Arctic-cooling Twin Turbo Pro has 2 series of 4 holes at the plate, one for ATI 5xxxx and one for Nvidia 2xx. None for the 470, 480. Otherwise everything fits.
 
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Nice work. Does the new GPU cooler extend past the 2 slot width of the original stock fan? I am interested in aftermarket cooling but I need the PCI slot next to one of my PCI-e slots for my sound card.
 
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nope thats a three slot solution for sure. It extends past the pci bracket roughly by a slot just looking at erixx's photo. That and most artic cooling solutions are roughly 3 slot designs
 

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Nice work. Does the new GPU cooler extend past the 2 slot width of the original stock fan? I am interesting in aftermarket cooling but I need the PCI slot next to one of my PCI-e slots for my sound card.

if you look carefully, it does in the second picture
 
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Sorry, but i was off-line, now just back from a holiday: and yes, it is 3 slot.
 
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