Yeah we used to have aftermarket heatsinks for gpus. It was the only way to have normal noise levels back then. But since nonreference gpus started shipping with big dense 2 and 3 slot radiators its popularity declined and now many people dont even know they exist. The chips also got big and without shim so its easy to dmg gpu while remounting cooler.
@@der8auer-en That fan cover would look really good in either the correct AMD Red or a Black colour. I do find myself wondering if ARGB fans would look better, and I'm not the world's biggest "RGB on everything" fan 😀
While true, the cost of making a shroud like this via CNC is also a lot more than the rgb + plastic shroud generally used. CNC mills are not cheap, and you are paying for that machine time.
@@qlum RGB accounts for a 120% profit margin price hike, don't be fooled. They're charging you extra money for crap you don't need. It's everywhere in 3rd party PC components, because it drives up profit margins for very little effort to the manufacturer.
Same! Sadly it was not that great of a card, it was sold for a short period (so not a lot of them out there) and it was the only one with that design...
I still recommend using an ultrasonic cleaner to clean the card PCB, especially to clean under the BGA chips, like memory and the GPU, because corrosion can still exist there after all you have done.
i agree with you, in this particular case, the fine dust and dirt can still be there but you can use a syringe with ipa and blast ipa under there, not only the ultrasonic method can be used
@@yx8074 i sort of see your point in the overhype, people expects wonders from some dirty water vibrating but does help to reduce the work on cleaning some things
@@yx8074 ultrasonic cleaners break dust into smaller particules making them unable to stick anymore. You must use ultrasonic cleaner with IPA. That's dangerous if not done the right way. Don't smoke next to it..
Something with that 90° chamfer, I definitely recommend doing a ramp-in instead of just lowering it onto the circle for the fans, it helps with it not ruining tools because it slowly gets to depth of cut. As for the accident that happened it looks like the program thought it was a regular endmill instead of a cutter.
That's a beautiful restoration job for a special gpu. The 5700 XT was the gpu I went with for my first build and was my first experience with high fps gaming.
This is some next level stuff. Thanks for showing how cool and stylish something simple can be. Maybe the AIB partners can take note and ditch the RGB and gaudy colors and extra bit for at least 1 out of every 10 model they release.
@@triadwarfare Its one thing to hate CCP, but you are casually dismissing all of the hard work done by commoners in China. That really should not be the goal.
That's how the Radeon 7 should have been looked like. it's just looks amazing.... for the last 15 years GPUs made to look cheap with plastic covers or put RGB lights everywhere. I don't think need to paint it in different color as well, It's looks that good.
@@stanimir4197 Did I said it's have to be made via CNC machine? If Asus can make an all metal cover for 3080 GPU, I'm pretty sure GPU makers can make somthing similar to what Derbauer made here.
The fact you have the ability to take on these projects are amazing! Any plans to monetize or manufacture these mods on a consumer level for sale on different types or or styles of cards?
What a beautiful shroud. I have never really liked RGB madness in PC set-ups. If the tiny fail happens again, or bothers you an experienced TIG welder would have the skills to fill the void and with minimal finishing could be unnoticeable.
lol yes indeed and often forgotten way to save it actually on this subject of TiG + machining... i also wonder to ask if it is ever reasonable to tig weld a slightly oversized hollow box from flatbar pieces. and then machine the rest of the way. in order to save machine time and wear. with fewer wate chips to deal with afterwards. depending on the bother for welding the box. and also the specific goal. the approach might not worthwhile simply for this gpu shroud. but what about for some larger objects? such as a furniture. or an entire custom shaped pc case? but then again, it is more sensible to make as individual pieces. and just screw them all together. or friction fit / precision fits or whatever. only if you really wanted the better mechanical screnth provided of a real weld. and for example on a thinner sheets / lower mass. and none of that engineering is so critical for these types of pc building projects
Amazing to see that gpu covered with mud can be salvaged and end result is looking just great. Looking forward to see final assembly with back plate installed.
my pc say out side a garage after they upgraded for over a year...it had puddle in the mono CPU an hsf all Still installed in its case. dried it out still working now
It's nice to see active recycling. With the greater knowledge and experience gained from this attempt the next attempt will come closer to your expectations. I try to actively recycle old high end PC cases, which can be an interesting proposition with the current and needed trend towards better ventilation, let alone incorporating updated I/O ports.
i did a very similar thing to my powercolor red dragon 5700xt last year. I 3d printed a plenum that bolted to the face of the stock heat sink and took 2 120mm fans. I did it for noise, and it was a really nice upgrade.
I made this mod with the same exact fans on a 5700xt. Exept that I removed the shroud and the fans are zip tied to the heatpipes with a bit of thick double sided tape to stop the fins from making an high pitched sound. Close enough... From the great results I got, I decided that this will be the standard for every new gpu I will buy. It was a blessing to have a gpu so silent and so cool (also thanks to liquid metal) in a portable mini itx case
I bought a 5700 xt for $300 right when the pandemic started….I’ve been rocking it ever since. I have a 1440p monitor and it’s been serving me well….jus by tunning the settings I can run any title out right now….I hope 2022 can be a better year for gpu so I can make another build and buy a brand new card!
I was surprised at fisrt when you had such bad temps but after I saw the surface of the die getting not proper contact and you made it work so well I calmed down. Kudos!
I absolutely love the custom aluminum face plate. I think AIB companies should make special edition cards like this without plastic and RGB, just a clean metal design. Cheers from USA.
Absolutely love the fact that your manufacture your own brackets and all as well with a cnc. I am a cnc programmer and designer myself and have built custom brackets at work and all for my case as well as a few other odd ball and ends. Sure comes in handy being able to pretty much create whatever your mind can think of! Awesome work and awesome videos!!
Since 2017 i have been doing this to my gpus. 1080ti, 2080ti, now 3080. Using a 3dprinter to print the shroud and using 2x Noctua af12x25. The performance and noise is just way better than any stock gpu cooler... Highly recommend it !!!
Could do a 'der8auer signature custom' of a top-of-the-line card: custom fans with a milled shroud, then for the milled backplate you could see what PCB areas get hot and leave islands to place thermal pads for great cooling. Maybe mill the backplate with some grooves for surface area too. Could even do a competition and give it away, one of a kind :)
I recently changed the thermal paste on an abused PowerColor 5700xt Red Devil. The hot spot temperature dropped to those same 86ºC figures you had. Such an effective maintenance step. Card is cool and quiet again :)
7:25 90 degree included angle end mill, or chamfer mill is correct. Great video and beautiful machine work for what you had to work with, coming from a tool maker for 46 years.
you said not a big difference but fixing the pressure brought it from 81C at 70% fan speed to 68C at 36% fan speed, and that also brought about a core clock bump from 1650MHz to 1740MHz with the lower thermals AND lower fan speed! That's an enormous difference.
Really nice results bud. Shame about the "wasted" material through milling though, especially with the price of metals at the mo. Do you have an outlet for "waste", like a recycling center that pays by weight or such?
I'm curious, what was the final weight of the shroud with fans installed? It looks heavy. I imagine that it would be great for vertical mounting, but would sag a lot with a vertical mount position. Visually, it looks great!
I don't think it would weigh much more than a normal 5700xt - I have a couple cards I'd imagine are heavier. A 3070 with a massive heatsink and a little screen on it, gigabytes high end model, and a xfx 6700xt that is something like 340 mm's long, It's massive.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising, but it is amazing what the better contact did to change the temperatures. To make a 20 degree difference, remarkable, something so small, but so essential!
That was amazing, I have the same card only it's the 5700 non xt. If I don't undervolt it, the junction can get to 110C. I wish it had better cooling potential.
The end result is amazing! I saw your thumbnail and wasn’t impressed… but now that i watched your video, i LOVE it! Personally i went with the rajintek morpheus 2 cooler on my 5700xt with two nf-a12x25 (and some copper vram heatsinks) but i would love a shroud like that, especially anodized in black!
Yes, we are interested in seeing a custom functional backplate design! It was pretty cool to see this process as well especially as there are not many (any?) people DIY'ing a solution that has this level of finishing
Would love to see what design you come up with for a back plate for this card! The fan shroud looks tops! If/when you do the black anodized idea, can i suggest doing the "RX5700XT" in the shiny finish too!?
You should make a backplate with short hit fins along with a heat pipe going right behind where the memory modules are allowing more of the heat from the memory to transfer to the backplate more effectively then with the aluminum backplate having short fins giving it better thermal transfer possibly dropping temps a few degrees Celsius. Also if temperatures drop then you should powermod the 5700xt and see the scores you can get
Damn, that looks great! Also, just amazing how much of a difference it made to adjust the mounting pressure. Sometimes, even manufacturers get that wrong.
what an awesome project! would love to see a back plate, and the mixture of black with silver lines would be epic! i really hope to see this done again! good job saving another part from the trenches!
Machining anodized aluminum is called contrast cut. Pretty crazy you cut a solid block. I guess a bending brake and sheet metal would have been cheating. Well done. Looks great.
*Sir,* *More of these experimental/modding videos, please !* I like your channel content, each and every video has insanely high content quality: there's always something new stuff to watch, gain knowledge and enjoy.
Awesome vid! Could've went the easy way and 3d print it but the big chunk of aluminium is way nicer. I wonder how much the card weighs now compared to stock.
Why not fix the small defect in the top left by milling it to a small rectangular shape, and putting a small decal on there. Or perhaps install an LED there?.
What a gorgeous outcome it really looks fantastic. Maybe someday you could do something similar with FDM, its such a more accessible tech i think a heap of your viewers would relate to it? Maybe 'carbon fibre' filament for a laugh ;) Also thanks for mentioning the IPA final rinse, and why.
Id love to see the backplate, not only for aesthetics and machining purposes but I'm also curious to see thermal analysis. I wonder if there would be any notable difference if you could thermally link the backplate to the aluminum fan shroud as well...
What would also look awesome is to install some white LED's below the model name (in this case, RX 5700 XT) just to give it a nice, white shining touch. Amazing job !
you are amazing! that is probably the coolest mod I have ever seen. Think you just found a new item to sell as people would buy that in a heartbeat, just need your logo on it as well :)
imo if you polished the new shroud and then left it chrome or anodized it red or gold, that would look amazing... very nicely done! I wish I had a CNC to play with
Hello Mr. Hartung ! About the little "defect" in machining, it looks perfetc to fix it embedding a little red stone, maybe a Ruby(ok, a little expensive) or some kind of red resin with a red led(or argb?) under.
Very nice mod! I've done the same on my RX 5700, with arctic F9 fans, but I've just zipped them to the original cooler. You could fix the wrong rpms reading by using MorePowerTool and changing the fan specs as well, otherwise the vbios will still think to deal with the original fans
Ooh I hope these kind of cooler fabrication videos keep coming. That was really fun. And beautiful. Would be awesome to see iterations for thermal improvements, maybe trying making the underlying heatsink at some point, etc.
I have a XFX DD edition, it's doing a decent job cooling with a bit of an undervolt (999mV) at 1953 MHz keeping the hotspot below 85°C at 70% fan speed.
9:26 The top and bottom has very thick aluminium, I think you could save a lot of weight on the cooler if you milled out most of the top and bottom "bars" from inside
Would be really cool to see a complete custom cooler in the future, with a custom backplate, properly painted and everything, great video btw
Totally would watch it
Didn't Linus once do Hydro-dipping to make custom back plates?
??? isnt that what those ARCTIC Accelero are
Yeah we used to have aftermarket heatsinks for gpus. It was the only way to have normal noise levels back then. But since nonreference gpus started shipping with big dense 2 and 3 slot radiators its popularity declined and now many people dont even know they exist. The chips also got big and without shim so its easy to dmg gpu while remounting cooler.
@@sznikers nahhh its more of nvidia founders stopped using those god damn awful blower cards
Your content has always been good but god damn lately it's such a joy to watch. Much love for providing that to the english speaking audience.
Thank you very much! That's awesome to hear :)
@@der8auer-en yeah you have been rocking it man, keep up the great work!
@@der8auer-en That fan cover would look really good in either the correct AMD Red or a Black colour. I do find myself wondering if ARGB fans would look better, and I'm not the world's biggest "RGB on everything" fan 😀
Totally agree. Knows what he’s talking about and no bullshit.
@@der8auer-en Just curious, how much was the total cost in materials for this project?
This looks even more awesome than the majority of commercial cards available right now. 🤣🤣
Problem with commercial cards, is they are marketed for their flashy RGB looks, not how well they perform, with a classy look to them.
While true, the cost of making a shroud like this via CNC is also a lot more than the rgb + plastic shroud generally used.
CNC mills are not cheap, and you are paying for that machine time.
@@qlum RGB accounts for a 120% profit margin price hike, don't be fooled. They're charging you extra money for crap you don't need. It's everywhere in 3rd party PC components, because it drives up profit margins for very little effort to the manufacturer.
Efficient quiet black fans and a metal shroud. Simple, elegant, beautiful.
@@qlum Better looking than any card on the market. And the same design can be made using plastic.
This reminds me a lot of the Radeon VII shroud, which IMO is one of the most beautiful shroud designs ever made.
Same! Sadly it was not that great of a card, it was sold for a short period (so not a lot of them out there) and it was the only one with that design...
The XFX HD7000s have a similar look, really very cool, but unfortunately fairly useless as cards for gaming now...
I typically like the look of most reference cards. Aftermarket cards always have such tacky looking coolers on them
The RTX3090 FE looks 100x nicer.
Also looks a lot like my EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3 Shroud, which I love
I still recommend using an ultrasonic cleaner to clean the card PCB, especially to clean under the BGA chips, like memory and the GPU, because corrosion can still exist there after all you have done.
i agree with you, in this particular case, the fine dust and dirt can still be there
but you can use a syringe with ipa and blast ipa under there, not only the ultrasonic method can be used
I use both, but I don't not agree with ultrasonic overhype.
@@yx8074 i sort of see your point in the overhype, people expects wonders from some dirty water vibrating
but does help to reduce the work on cleaning some things
@@yx8074 ultrasonic cleaners break dust into smaller particules making them unable to stick anymore.
You must use ultrasonic cleaner with IPA. That's dangerous if not done the right way. Don't smoke next to it..
@@goldnoob6191 I don't smoke ever, but thanks for advice! :D
Something with that 90° chamfer, I definitely recommend doing a ramp-in instead of just lowering it onto the circle for the fans, it helps with it not ruining tools because it slowly gets to depth of cut. As for the accident that happened it looks like the program thought it was a regular endmill instead of a cutter.
That's a beautiful restoration job for a special gpu. The 5700 XT was the gpu I went with for my first build and was my first experience with high fps gaming.
God i feel old, my first personal build was a Hercules XD
@Casix03 I ended up getting a 6800xt at Micro Center last year and sold the 5700xt a few days after
While others might be 3D printing, my guy is 3D milling. Respect !
3D printed shroud with nice surface finish and metallic color paint job could also look pretty good
You should definitely make these custom shrouds and make some beefy aluminium backplates aswell! Really good content Jimmy
Agreed! I'd love to see how they turn out.
Every PCI-E connector would start sweating at the sight of that
Pretty sure you dont want backplate too chunky though, due to thermal mass.
This is some next level stuff. Thanks for showing how cool and stylish something simple can be. Maybe the AIB partners can take note and ditch the RGB and gaudy colors and extra bit for at least 1 out of every 10 model they release.
I liked the look before sandblasting it.
Also everyone should have a CNC router machine.
lol where can i get one? xD
If everyone had their own CNC machine, that wouldn't be great for China. That'll send them back to the Mao era.
@@triadwarfare Who Cares About China? LOL
@@triadwarfare Its one thing to hate CCP, but you are casually dismissing all of the hard work done by commoners in China. That really should not be the goal.
Yes, I preferred it before the lines were milled
That's how the Radeon 7 should have been looked like. it's just looks amazing.... for the last 15 years GPUs made to look cheap with plastic covers or put RGB lights everywhere. I don't think need to paint it in different color as well, It's looks that good.
way off, the CNC part costs close to the GPU, itself, - it's an unrealistic approach for a non-boutique item
@@stanimir4197 Did I said it's have to be made via CNC machine? If Asus can make an all metal cover for 3080 GPU, I'm pretty sure GPU makers can make somthing similar to what Derbauer made here.
The shroud he made looks better than any shroud I've seen out of a factory imo. Plastic gpu shrouds are meh
Using sheet metal works well for cheap production
Much loves from the US brother!! Appreciate you so much!! Be blessed!
That gpu shroud looks awesome, plus that 1300+rpm at 68°C is just sweet 🔥 Noctua fans are just incredible 👍
The fact you have the ability to take on these projects are amazing! Any plans to monetize or manufacture these mods on a consumer level for sale on different types or or styles of cards?
if nobody said it till now.. here it goes.... You, people.. you is amazing!
BRAVO!
What a beautiful shroud. I have never really liked RGB madness in PC set-ups. If the tiny fail happens again, or bothers you an experienced TIG welder would have the skills to fill the void and with minimal finishing could be unnoticeable.
lol yes indeed and often forgotten way to save it
actually on this subject of TiG + machining...
i also wonder to ask if it is ever reasonable to tig weld a slightly oversized hollow box from flatbar pieces. and then machine the rest of the way. in order to save machine time and wear. with fewer wate chips to deal with afterwards. depending on the bother for welding the box. and also the specific goal. the approach might not worthwhile simply for this gpu shroud. but what about for some larger objects? such as a furniture. or an entire custom shaped pc case? but then again, it is more sensible to make as individual pieces. and just screw them all together. or friction fit / precision fits or whatever. only if you really wanted the better mechanical screnth provided of a real weld. and for example on a thinner sheets / lower mass. and none of that engineering is so critical for these types of pc building projects
Amazing to see that gpu covered with mud can be salvaged and end result is looking just great. Looking forward to see final assembly with back plate installed.
my pc say out side a garage after they upgraded for over a year...it had puddle in the mono CPU an hsf all Still installed in its case. dried it out still working now
I love the brushed aluminium look. This is gorgeous! Would love to see this turned into a series/product.
I have been debating retrofitting an old bridgeport I have. This has me sold. Great work!
It's nice to see active recycling. With the greater knowledge and experience gained from this attempt the next attempt will come closer to your expectations. I try to actively recycle old high end PC cases, which can be an interesting proposition with the current and needed trend towards better ventilation, let alone incorporating updated I/O ports.
i did a very similar thing to my powercolor red dragon 5700xt last year. I 3d printed a plenum that bolted to the face of the stock heat sink and took 2 120mm fans. I did it for noise, and it was a really nice upgrade.
I can't believe i missed that amazing piece of content
I am all for simplicity and function. And this cooler design is a perfect example. Pity that most companies are unable to see it.
Just wow I had never seen sandblasting, that effect is super nice, so smooth!
Came up really nice looking. Wish the actual retail versions looked this good.
Looks amazing! Very inspiring. I am designing my own computer case and will take some inspiration from this.
I made this mod with the same exact fans on a 5700xt.
Exept that I removed the shroud and the fans are zip tied to the heatpipes with a bit of thick double sided tape to stop the fins from making an high pitched sound. Close enough...
From the great results I got, I decided that this will be the standard for every new gpu I will buy.
It was a blessing to have a gpu so silent and so cool (also thanks to liquid metal) in a portable mini itx case
I bought a 5700 xt for $300 right when the pandemic started….I’ve been rocking it ever since. I have a 1440p monitor and it’s been serving me well….jus by tunning the settings I can run any title out right now….I hope 2022 can be a better year for gpu so I can make another build and buy a brand new card!
This was a beautiful result. If you felt inclined to make more content like this, I'd happily watch it. I really love restoration type content
If only they could make a third-party heat sink to replace for us to mod these GPUs with. (looking at you Vega 64 reference cooler)
What i want to know is how did you guys know the card was still going to work after being filled w/ water and mud?
I was surprised at fisrt when you had such bad temps but after I saw the surface of the die getting not proper contact and you made it work so well I calmed down. Kudos!
Absolutely love how this came out!
I absolutely love the custom aluminum face plate. I think AIB companies should make special edition cards like this without plastic and RGB, just a clean metal design.
Cheers from USA.
Absolutely love the fact that your manufacture your own brackets and all as well with a cnc. I am a cnc programmer and designer myself and have built custom brackets at work and all for my case as well as a few other odd ball and ends. Sure comes in handy being able to pretty much create whatever your mind can think of! Awesome work and awesome videos!!
The CARD LOOKS (how can I say) FABULOUS! We are interested in more of this type of video.
Since 2017 i have been doing this to my gpus. 1080ti, 2080ti, now 3080. Using a 3dprinter to print the shroud and using 2x Noctua af12x25. The performance and noise is just way better than any stock gpu cooler... Highly recommend it !!!
Could do a 'der8auer signature custom' of a top-of-the-line card: custom fans with a milled shroud, then for the milled backplate you could see what PCB areas get hot and leave islands to place thermal pads for great cooling. Maybe mill the backplate with some grooves for surface area too. Could even do a competition and give it away, one of a kind :)
The content is getting better and better, thanks a bunch, Roman!
I recently changed the thermal paste on an abused PowerColor 5700xt Red Devil. The hot spot temperature dropped to those same 86ºC figures you had. Such an effective maintenance step. Card is cool and quiet again :)
7:25
90 degree included angle end mill, or chamfer mill is correct.
Great video and beautiful machine work for what you had to work with, coming from a tool maker for 46 years.
you said not a big difference but fixing the pressure brought it from 81C at 70% fan speed to 68C at 36% fan speed, and that also brought about a core clock bump from 1650MHz to 1740MHz with the lower thermals AND lower fan speed! That's an enormous difference.
Really nice results bud.
Shame about the "wasted" material through milling though, especially with the price of metals at the mo.
Do you have an outlet for "waste", like a recycling center that pays by weight or such?
it's just aluminum which is relatively cheap and it's easy to recycle.
I'm curious, what was the final weight of the shroud with fans installed? It looks heavy. I imagine that it would be great for vertical mounting, but would sag a lot with a vertical mount position. Visually, it looks great!
I don't think it would weigh much more than a normal 5700xt - I have a couple cards I'd imagine are heavier. A 3070 with a massive heatsink and a little screen on it, gigabytes high end model, and a xfx 6700xt that is something like 340 mm's long, It's massive.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising, but it is amazing what the better contact did to change the temperatures. To make a 20 degree difference, remarkable, something so small, but so essential!
That was amazing, I have the same card only it's the 5700 non xt. If I don't undervolt it, the junction can get to 110C. I wish it had better cooling potential.
The end result is amazing! I saw your thumbnail and wasn’t impressed… but now that i watched your video, i LOVE it! Personally i went with the rajintek morpheus 2 cooler on my 5700xt with two nf-a12x25 (and some copper vram heatsinks) but i would love a shroud like that, especially anodized in black!
Great job Roman! It looks really elegant now.
This guy is a legend. Instead of just cleaning the card, he goes own to make the entire fan assembly out of solid piece of metal.
Yes, we are interested in seeing a custom functional backplate design! It was pretty cool to see this process as well especially as there are not many (any?) people DIY'ing a solution that has this level of finishing
I think a packplace like that would be beauty overload... I say go for it!!
Love to see a completely custom cooler on a high end card like 3080Ti 3090 or 6900XT. Especially to see if it can get the vram temps down on the 3090.
This is an absolutely brilliant concept. The only problem with using minerals such as metals is their extra weight to the card.
Definitely do this again it looks amazing
Amazing idea Roman, man i wish i had as many tools as you to make crazy stuff, gladly you are here to realize some of those.
It looks so sick!
Black and silver combo can't go wrong
Would love to see what design you come up with for a back plate for this card! The fan shroud looks tops! If/when you do the black anodized idea, can i suggest doing the "RX5700XT" in the shiny finish too!?
All that different surface finishes actually looked really good as a design on it's own.
I love this kind of content! This is something I wish I had the equipment to do myself so Roman, keep making videos like this, they are awesome!
I have a reference 5700XT I never switched the cooler on. Would love to quiet the thing down somehow without spending 200 bucks on an Eisbaer.
Enjoyed this one very much. I could watch the cnc work all today.
You should make a backplate with short hit fins along with a heat pipe going right behind where the memory modules are allowing more of the heat from the memory to transfer to the backplate more effectively then with the aluminum backplate having short fins giving it better thermal transfer possibly dropping temps a few degrees Celsius. Also if temperatures drop then you should powermod the 5700xt and see the scores you can get
that 5700xt is so beautiful. my rx580 fan connector doesnt work so i bypassed it connected directly to a motherboard header and set to 50% rpm
Most beautiful card i have ever seen.
beautiful work. Thank you for producing this in EN. Appreciate you!
Damn, that looks great! Also, just amazing how much of a difference it made to adjust the mounting pressure. Sometimes, even manufacturers get that wrong.
what an awesome project! would love to see a back plate, and the mixture of black with silver lines would be epic! i really hope to see this done again! good job saving another part from the trenches!
Looks awesome. You should consider doing aftermarket coolers for some popular cards.
Any chance for a Noctua vs beQuiet fan comparison?
This looks fantastic! Also, thank you so much for the entire English channel!!!! Love all these custom parts and mods you do.
That sandblasting finish is really dope *literally. Love it!
Machining anodized aluminum is called contrast cut.
Pretty crazy you cut a solid block. I guess a bending brake and sheet metal would have been cheating.
Well done. Looks great.
Paint it white and paint the shining lines some light grey and some orange. Thanks for the video.
This is the kind of Noctua GPU I want. Nothing gaudy, no unnecessary rgb. Simple design its great. Next time commit and go with brown tho haha
*Sir,*
*More of these experimental/modding videos, please !*
I like your channel content, each and every video has insanely high content quality: there's always something new stuff to watch, gain knowledge and enjoy.
Aight, when can I buy this off store shelves
Honestly the milling marks on the top at 6:09 looked gorgeous on camera
Awesome vid! Could've went the easy way and 3d print it but the big chunk of aluminium is way nicer. I wonder how much the card weighs now compared to stock.
Would like to know this too... Weight.
Why not fix the small defect in the top left by milling it to a small rectangular shape, and putting a small decal on there. Or perhaps install an LED there?.
Making some custom stickers for the fans would be a nice touch as well.
Amazing results. Great job! It looks really cool
What a gorgeous outcome it really looks fantastic.
Maybe someday you could do something similar with FDM, its such a more accessible tech i think a heap of your viewers would relate to it?
Maybe 'carbon fibre' filament for a laugh ;)
Also thanks for mentioning the IPA final rinse, and why.
Do a backplate!! Looks amazing already! Fantastic job!
Id love to see the backplate, not only for aesthetics and machining purposes but I'm also curious to see thermal analysis. I wonder if there would be any notable difference if you could thermally link the backplate to the aluminum fan shroud as well...
What would also look awesome is to install some white LED's below the model name (in this case, RX 5700 XT) just to give it a nice, white shining touch. Amazing job !
you are amazing! that is probably the coolest mod I have ever seen. Think you just found a new item to sell as people would buy that in a heartbeat, just need your logo on it as well :)
imo if you polished the new shroud and then left it chrome or anodized it red or gold, that would look amazing... very nicely done! I wish I had a CNC to play with
Hello Mr. Hartung ! About the little "defect" in machining, it looks perfetc to fix it embedding a little red stone, maybe a Ruby(ok, a little expensive) or some kind of red resin with a red led(or argb?) under.
Very nice mod! I've done the same on my RX 5700, with arctic F9 fans, but I've just zipped them to the original cooler.
You could fix the wrong rpms reading by using MorePowerTool and changing the fan specs as well, otherwise the vbios will still think to deal with the original fans
Ooh I hope these kind of cooler fabrication videos keep coming. That was really fun. And beautiful.
Would be awesome to see iterations for thermal improvements, maybe trying making the underlying heatsink at some point, etc.
I will buy it anytime. Excellent work Romen
I have a XFX DD edition, it's doing a decent job cooling with a bit of an undervolt (999mV) at 1953 MHz keeping the hotspot below 85°C at 70% fan speed.
9:26 The top and bottom has very thick aluminium, I think you could save a lot of weight on the cooler if you milled out most of the top and bottom "bars" from inside
I mean, you can just go with sheet metal too.
That's a beautiful simple looking card.
Sweet a separate channel for English! Unfortunately I will miss learning German!
a 5700 xt worth $600 at this very moment. Fabulous job man 😍
thanks for the upload, is really nice to see how that card is revived and so cool looking :D
now would be the time to make a 4090 noctua edition new! =)
Awesome, would love to see more of this kind of project. Aluminium metal with Noctua chromax really looks nice.
YES! We wan't more of this! Perhaps integrate the aluminium block as a functional part of the cooling too when you integrate a backplate.
Honestly I think that with your mod, that’s among the top 5 best-looking gpu’s I’ve seen. Amazing job with the design and machining of the fan shroud!
Card looks great!!! I would definitely love to see videos like this in the future!