[SOLVED] where can i buy the Zotac 980 Ti AMP! cooler only?

[MaxTehLegend]

ive recently found out that the zotac 980 Ti AMP cooler can fit on my card as they share the exact PCB and length. i was wondering where i could buy one in the UK?

zotac AMP! PCB:

EVGA SC+ ACX 2.0+ PCB:

 

[Eximo]

Actually no idea if it would fit a 980Ti, but it is a very simple cooler, and given that board the only concern would be the height of capacitors at the rear of the board. And any GPU from that era would have had a similar design.

Nvidia hasn't changed the size of their mounting holes on the larger cards in quite some time. And it has no direct contact with the memory, so that should still be fine.

The fans are ludicrous though, you could pick out some nice RGB LED fans and use those instead. I don't think it would be any better than another Axial cooled heatsink like Zotacs or EVGA's ACX2.0.

That is another option, you could strip the shroud away from the cooler you have and put your own fans on there.

You are really delving into custom territory at this point.

 

[Eximo]

It would look something like this: http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/1848/deepcool_dracula-013.jpg

http://www.legitreviews.com/deepcool-gamer-storm-dracula-vga-cooler-review_1848

Quite a detailed review, with dimensions. Hard to read, but I believe they installed it on a GF100 reference board. So a GTX470 or GTX480. The cooler sits very high up, so I don't think interference is an issue. They even added heatsinks to the memory.

 

[MaxTehLegend]

Actually no idea if it would fit a 980Ti, but it is a very simple cooler, and given that board the only concern would be the height of capacitors at the rear of the board. And any GPU from that era would have had a similar design.

Nvidia hasn't changed the size of their mounting holes on the larger cards in quite some time. And it has no direct contact with the memory, so that should still be fine.

The fans are ludicrous though, you could pick out some nice RGB LED fans and use those instead. I don't think it would be any better than another Axial cooled heatsink like Zotacs or EVGA's ACX2.0.

That is another option, you could strip the shroud away from the cooler you have and put your own fans on there.

You are really delving into custom territory at this point.

yeah im not sure if thats the best option. it would be quite ghetto. and the fact that it wont fit 100% makes me even more worried.

 

[Eximo]

I think it would work just fine. It isn't really designed to be pretty, but functional. It was built for an era where Nvidia's top end GPUs ran way too hot for comfort. And AMD was no slouch either.

Now they are mildly trending back down in power consumption/heat generation. But they've also kind of crippled overclocking with hard voltage limits. It will be interesting to see what Vega will take to run.

 

[MaxTehLegend]

I think it would work just fine. It isn't really designed to be pretty, but functional. It was built for an era where Nvidia's top end GPUs ran way too hot for comfort. And AMD was no slouch either.

Now they are mildly trending back down in power consumption/heat generation. But they've also kind of crippled overclocking with hard voltage limits. It will be interesting to see what Vega will take to run.

thanks for the reply. its a nice cooler and looks really beefy but im looking for something like the zotac amp, asus strix, gigabyte g1 gaming, PNY XLR8, HoF 980 Ti and other coolers like that that im interested in.

 

[Eximo]

You can try posting in some forums. Reddit.com/r/hardwareswap is a decent place. Tom's has a classifieds section as well. And if you head over to overclockers.net there is probably someone who has spare coolers.

I know I have a 980 reference cooler and a 1080 ACX3.0 sitting on my desk.

 

[MaxTehLegend]

You can try posting in some forums. Reddit.com/r/hardwareswap is a decent place. Tom's has a classifieds section as well. And if you head over to overclockers.net there is probably someone who has spare coolers.

I know I have a 980 reference cooler and a 1080 ACX3.0 sitting on my desk.

if only that 1080 acx3.0 cooler can fit on my card. shame the cooler too small to fit. and wouldn't be cooling it very well since my card pumps out alot more heat then the 1080

 

[MaxTehLegend]

well? any more suggestions?