Switching Coolers (From Stock to a Gigabyte Windforce)

[Beta_Moose]

Alright guys, Can I take my Old R9 280X Gigabyte Windforce cooler and swap it out with the reference cooler from my GTX 980 (ASUS). Pretty much just switching the coolers around.

 

[laviniuc]

nope, i don't think they are compatible.
edit: and the stock cooler on the 980 isn't bad

http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/885/images/Image_04S.jpg
http://www.vortez.net/articles_file/24865_gigabyte_r9_280x_oc_heatsink.jpg

 

[Beta_Moose]

nope, i don't think they are compatible.
edit: and the stock cooler on the 980 isn't bad

http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/885/images/Image_04S.jpg
http://www.vortez.net/articles_file/24865_gigabyte_r9_280x_oc_heatsink.jpg

Hmm those images don't really line up with my question.. Or maybe they do but I wanna know if i can take my stock blower cooler from my 980 and remove it, Then take the 280x Windforce cooler and put it on. Both those images were gigabyte coolers.

Also I know the cooler isn't bad, but if I have a better one I'd rather use it.

 

[laviniuc]

the images do line up, one's the cooler for the 280x (the one with the extra square tilted) - the one you currently have on the 280x.

and the other one is the cooler the 980 should have (or along those lines - this is the standard board:
http://benchmarkreviews.com/20373/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-video-card-review/3/
). what i'm saying is at best, the 280x cooler can be used on another gigabyte board (290 maybe or 280/285) but even on those it won't fit properly unless the memory modules align perfectly.

 

[coozie7]

Won't work.
AMD and NVIDIA use a slightly different hole spacing for the 4 main mounting points (the ones around the GPU die itself).
That raised square on the AMD cooler will not make full contact with the Nvidia GPU die, meaning its corners will not be cooled.

 

[Beta_Moose]

Ah that makes more sense now. Thanks guys.