Geforce 2 Watercooling.
Well..... my geforce 2 was hot. very hot. and it had a fan. a
fan that turned. that means noise.
i dont like noise, OR heat. time to watercool!!!
I started of with a chipset heatsink that came of an old BD100plus Iwill motherboard.
i got some of my famous plastic strips and started superglueing them onto the
heatsink.
i glued the top on, let it set for a while, and then drilled some holes in the
corners, and
glued in some pipes.
And here it is installed in the machine.
I tapped some water off the CPU cooling system. It goes through the GF2 waterjacket
and into the res.
Well, i really cant tell you how much of a temperature difference that has made.
Primarily cos i lost the software that allows you to read the temp of the gf2
chip dammit
BUT it feels cooler, and i can overclock it a lot further now without it hanging
up on me.
As to how i installed it, i used arctic silver as the thermal compound. I used
the OLD fan heatsink
clip which you can see in the bottom picture as the bar of the clip, and two long
nuts and bolts with
fibre insulating washers on the other side of the card to stop any damage to the
video card.
here is a pic of that.
Overall it was a quick job, took me about an hour all up to make it,
and its worked, its one less fan in the machine to make noise and collect dust
and fail and destroy something. It works better then a fan heatsink too!!!
It allows me to overclock my core speed to 240 mhz, where with the fan heatsink
the highest i could get was 225mhz.
I am quite happy with this watersink.
L8ur!
5-February 2001