Fitting Arctic Cooler 4 Revision 2 on x800AIW !HERE!

[trinitron64]

I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES!!!
DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
IN FACT, DON'T DO IT!!!

I bought myself an x800xl AIW about a year ago and at the stock speeds of 399/489 its pretty lame... not bad... but pretty lame.

Not every VGA cooler performs the same and I had heard that the AC4R2 kicks ass... but does not fit my card.

WELL! THIS IS HOW YOU MODIFY!!

There are 4 large pins which go through the card... two are to hold the HSF to the GPU which another 2 are to hold on the back (the heatsink for the back memory modules) Simply take a pair of plyers and rip off the two top pins which do not fit through the board... put a generous amount of AS5 of the gpu and on some of the memory modules, even on top of the thermal pads to really make sure you get a close fit... then sandwhich it together and use a zip-tie to secure the rear module to the video card

TADAAA!!!!

399 turns into 580
489 turns into 604.8

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[trinitron64]

I don't follow the hooey about sparingly applying AS5, my San Diego idles at 18C and my over clocked graphics card idles at 34C

To be honest, i would NEVER suggest putting AS5 on thermal pads... hell i don't even like the idea of thermal padding... but in this specific case... you can see from the side that the rear memory pads don't make proper contact with the memory and the rear retainer... so some was needed in order for the card to handle the memory OC.

 

[Whokidmo]

i gotta say im impressed but i dunno... the thermal compound theory and the ties that hold it in place... i've seen the AC4 in review not OC that high

 

[plankmeister]

put a generous amount of AS5 of the gpu and on some of the memory modules, even on top of the thermal pads to really make sure you get a close fit...

8O

You did WHAT with the AS5?

 

[Scougs]

Are you sure that the card is an X800XL AIW?
To my knowlege, the X800XLs all contain R430 cores which are notoriously poor overclockers regardless of how cool you make them. I would guess that your card is actually based on the R480 core.