Thanks to Digital Storm to giving you the "Go ahead" on this one! That's awesome! Even if for nothing else, at least it is quieter than the normal configuration. Either way, this looks pretty good, and I HOPE that this thing becomes a real product to purchase at some point.
Nah see all the cheap plublicity they are getting from him? All for the cost of 2-3 fans. On top of that all the free engineering what not to do or try this. This is a gold mine for fan developers.
BTW, there is a “duct tape”, that used in aviation (don’t remember correct name), sometimes pretty much unexpected, for example - temporarily fix a hole in the wing))) I think that kind of “duct tape” can be used to hold fans on a video card without any problem)))
Not only are these really fun and entertaining videos, but what I really appreciate about you is that you give people the 3d model of projects so they can save time and motivate them to have a model like yours in their hands. Keep it up.
After seeing the Noctua one i actually thought about 3d printing a shroud for my 3060ti and putting the 12x25 chromax on it that are coming out soon. I'm surprised we haven't really seen many or any 120mm GPUs over the years. Even on the biggest GPUs we still get basic 80 or 92mm fans.
Seems like the heatsink was the limiting factor as far as cooling goes and I've never noticed gfx card makers being concerned with noise levels, maybe if this joint venture sells well we'll get to see more 120mm fans on cards.
1. Temps were the same.. sure it was less noisy but temps are more important. 2. It would easy be a 4 slot card as slim 120mm fans arent efficiant like normal 120mm fans. 3080FE with small 80/92mm fans runs perfectly cool for example
@@l0ki4321 unless you are mining on those and have them isolated...I think 10db noise reduction is a good reason to go with the extra effort in to making something like this. And if the official card is reasonably more expensive than the regular version, again it's worth it. If it's like 200-300$ more expensive then...yeah it's not worth it.
Dude... What card do you want? Cover the cost and shipping AFTER YOU GET IT and I'll go get one for you. Every time I go into a micro center, they have cards in stock
I did the same with my evga geForce 1070 a few years ago, just with less 3d-printing and more just straight-up zip-tied a pair of unused fans to the heatsink. The Noctuas had a lesser current draw than the stock fans, so running them off the card was no issue. It might have looked a little "sketchy," but it actually ran 2°C cooler and didn't sound like chainsaw any more.
The one in the video has 3 fans and logically 3 plugs on the pcb but If you only use 2 does the controller behave the same as it uses 3 or is it just programmed to react to the heat and it doesnt matter how many fans? Im a noob
@@franzrecht6092 The fan connectors on a GPU is not a normal pc case fan connector. So you plug them into the motherboard or a fan controller. You can use software to control them. But in my case the Noctua fans are so good i dont really need to do anything but plug them in and make sure they run. My 2080ti went from 88c full load to 65c. But the most noticable thing was the greatly reduced fan noise. My PC is totally quiet thanks to Noctua ♥
The 3070 Noctua is a 4 slot design too. And the noise level you reach is super impressive. I have to run the fans at 100% on my 3090 to reach steady state at 56°, and it's obnoxious. The noise is about 60% of why I'm watercooling it
@@Dimondminer11 every 5° over 30 equates to a 15mhz drop. By 86°,my card would be throttling, the gpu hotspot would be coming up on 100°,and my VRAM would be overheating
In the 3090, it s not the core temps problème, it s the vram temps who is the problem. Unfortunately, it s a design issue. Some of the vram are not cooled a all and can reach +105c. I think It will be a real challenge to do a diy cooler for this beast, if an after market cooler can do it, I will buy it and I pretty sure a lot of 3090 owner will do the same !
@@adoksym omg, I’m glad you came. His misplaced “you’re” was going to blow up the world till you came and corrected him; you are the real hero of this story.....
Damn, bro! I wish this upload had enough views that Digital Storm ended up so dang pleased they decided to heck with it, & asked you to keep the whole computer! If you don't mind me askin - You didn't by chance get to keep the card or anything did ya...? Your relationship with digital storm &/or other PC manufacturers & assemblers will hopefiully reach the point where they are reaching out to you to have you try (& keep) their latest product releases to review. Almost 200k subscribers... That next level for you is right around the corner man. I'm new to your channel & only just subscribed, but the content is good, interesting & well thought out with good production value video & audio. You just need ONE upload that hits it out of the park with the views & the algorythm runs with it..., & you'll wake up the next morning "On Broadway" Keep it up, man. You're killin' it
Great build. Maybe contact Steve @ GN or Jay to see if they'd be interested in a collab where they provide you the other 30 series cards and you make the Noctura versions. They could be tested against what the AIBs manufacture.
I remember more than quite a while ago, when the Corsair water blocks were leaking. MH was among the first to report this and Jay called him a no-one and he was obviously faking the test for video views. As much as I would like to think everyone is okay with everyone these days, I don't see how I'd be able to work with someone that said all of that about me.
@@kenpumphrey8384 Unfortunately so. It was at the start of 2020, about the Corsair GPU waterblock. MH was the first to spot this, and let Corsair know, they said it was just a defective unit, so send it in for them to check and they'll replace it. The replacement did the same thing, and MH reported on that too. Basically, it leaked if any pressure was on the fittings area. People asked Jay his thoughts on it because he gave the product a rave review, and then claimed that MH was manipulating the issue to gain views. It was sad to see, because Jay instantly took Corsairs word on the matter, that it was only a handful of products with this issue (it was not, there was a rework done (which still did not fix the problem)). Only in June (2020) I think it was, did Jay admit that there was actually an issue, and I've not once seen him say sorry for his accusations toward MH. Either way, personally, even if he did say sorry to me, I couldn't work with him going forward after that.
I have a GTX970 that had a fan die on me and it was using these really weird connectors plus you couldn't get replacements back then anyway. So I threw away the entire shell of the GPU and zip tied two 120mm noctua fans. Now my problem was they were no longer reacting to the GPU temperature being powered as a case fan on the motherboard. But by some weird stroke of luck I had a motherboard with a temperature probe sensor port thing and I just had to buy one for a few bucks and stick the probe inside the GPU then set the BIOS to use the temperature for those fans. And yes it is the worlds ugliest GPU but it worked! It still works but I upgraded and it now sits there as a backup GPU in case of the worst. I wish I'd had the skill to make a cover but the important thing was the card was so quiet! And for me the temps dropped a lot. I was just amazed I'd managed to make it work so great stats was a super bonus.
As he had the wires free when he attached the cooler to the card, I'd expect he attached the wires to a chassis or CPU fan header on the motherboard. There are adapters to convert the PWM plugs from the GPU to the standard PWN plug, but I don't know how safe that is to do. (I've been starting research on my own shroud for a couple weeks now and wiring the fans has been one of the points of concern for me.)
@@JLProPhoto I run them off a curve, I used to control them with a custom curve using afterburner but I think right now they're just running whatever the GPU has as its stock curve. The fans are still idle until it hits like 45C or something.
@@Tigermoto that’s a nice card! could be worse I build my pc a year an a half ago I bought a used rx570 to hold me over tell the 3000 series stuff was out…… that was an awesome idea!
Nah, he probably did it for way cheaper. Oh wait, he needed a 3D Printer. Let's see: A12x25 fans are $29.95 US according to Newegg. He needed two, so that's $48.90 for the fans. For the 3D printer material, we'll say he used 250g of material (equivalent to a massive print). You can get 1kg of 3D printer filament for less than $20 on some stores (PLA should be adequate, or you can use ABS). So the cost of the 3D printing material should be around $5 or less, depending on how cheap you can get the filament. Let's also say that the glue he used cost $5, and the screws used to attach everything cost $2. Adding everything up, you get $60.90, excluding the tools you need to do the conversion. So it seems ASUS is marketing this as a premium product?
@@williamhuang8309 I didn't need the math done, my comment was sarcasm. But yea, you could buy the 3D printer with the fans and you'd still save a few bucks. ASUS is nuts...
@@williamhuang8309 don't you think PLA will deform in the time with temps around 50-60*C ? ( I have a RX580, running easily in the 70-80*C range so, PLA would be a concern XD )
@Thomas Hannah Nowhere. I've read the same announcement article everyone else did. No other region-appropriate information about pricing or availability.
Now that it is actually out everyone is jumping on it. Glad I heard it here first. Your attempt was far better than Linus's Gorilla tape attempt. Haha.
having had 2 a12x25's zip-tied to my gpu for the past couple years, its actually quite a bit better than stock. I have them at 100% most of the time and they're never even the loudest thing in the computer, not to mention the temps are very nice.
Not sure why my heart sank when you said they sent you a pc with a 3060 in it you could use, I was like oh no you didn't, then lol you said you got their permission lol. lol, Thanx Digital Storm for letting him lol.
I would like to see a test rig were the showdown fans are in the rig and the smoke gets pulled thru the case. maybe some different configurations of fans, different fans as push and pull to see the best combo, etc
I remember back in the 90s, early 00s, we were doing this with zip ties. There was an awesome community around silencing your PC. They were loud. They're still pretty loud. Lots of diy zip tie mods. Now you can make them pretty with zip ties.
Great job. Just be carful of putting PLA in a pc as it goes soft at 60 degrees Celsius and might drop those fans and (hopefully not) cook the GPU. Great video. Keep it lit.
The PLA shouldn't be getting anywhere near 60 degrees since the actual gpu isn't over that, but that would be an interesting thing to test with a hot running and poorly ventilated case. Maybe just plastic wrap the case.
This is not a problem, I did this to my own gpu too. The 2 noctua fans are still attached to the PLA and the cooler. It has been running in my poorly ventilated p400s for almost a year now. Though I am thinking about reprinting them in ABS, because right now the parts have different colours 😅
Your asumption is wrong, because with both type of fans, you achieve the max airflow the rad can use. Reduce noise to like 35dba or lower and you'll see a lot of difference in temperature. I have a 1080 strix modded with 2x120mm sw3 and im not only running much quieter but with slightly better temps. Im running 800 rpm (which is like 32-33dba) instead of the 1700-1850 on stock fans (something like 40+), and im getting 4-5ºC lower.
Graphics card deshrouding is a very unrepresented thing in the PC building community. It's amazing for GPU thermals and silent cooling. And it's especially great when you're using an ITX case, where the deshrouded graphics card with case fans brings fresh air in from outside of the case.
To find what is making the noise in the case take some plastic object and place it up against areas in the case with your thumb over the top and your ear pressed to your thumb it's a mechanic trick that i learned years ago
People from a hardware discord recommended me your video, because I modeled this graphics card in the last days as well. I am happy to see this one here :)
Yeah, that’s the right cooling system, made the same a couple years ago with my GTX1080, but didn’t bother with esthetics BTW temperatures under full load in really small case were somewhere between 60-64C
Unless something has changed - I think all the Strix series cards have the same HSF design and deshroud similarly, without the need to remove the heatsink from the card.
People have been doing this but without the shroud. I've also done something similar with a Gigabyte 1660Ti, which was loud AF and also had rattling noises at almost any RPM. I just removed the crappy plastic shroud and slapped 2 Arctic PWM fans directly on the heatsink and ran it like that. Temperatures were roughly the same but the improvement in noise was incredible, no more rattling and it even looked better. I'm not a fan of fan shrouds to be honest, I prefer to see the tech that does the job, the cooling.
Dude you did any awesome job! Looks almost like the "official" version. I think the only thing holding you back here is the heatsink itself. In the stock config the boost clock stabilized at 1770MHz, while the screen cap you showed for the modded version looks to have stabilized around 1717MHz, so that's a delta of 52MHz. That would seem to suggest that the modded version hit some sort of thermal limits earlier; preventing it from boosting more. I think the stock heatsink was the limiting factor for the mod. But it was really cool to see.
7:57 I CANNOT wait to get that printer myself! I use the QIDI Tech X-Plus currently, and it works great, but it only has one extruder! I can't wait to have dual extruders to use HIPS support for my detailed prints!!!
I would have LOVED noise normalised testing. Get the stock cooler back on it, run a test at full blast to check if your mounting is correct (temps in the same range as before) and then play with the fan speeds until you get around 43.2 dB.
I've seen in the past people putting 120mm fans on the Artic Accelero Xtreme GPU coolers and getting really good results. But not sure if they are compatible with 30 series cards
Thank you so much for this project. I love tinkering with my PC for optimum performance, thermals, noise, etc. This is the best channel on RUclips for all of that.
Paused At 12:00 for my guess. Cooling: slightly warmer, but no worse than if the card was in a case with poor airflow. Noise: quieter, but not noticeable to the ear because of other fans/pumps in the system. Edit at 13:00 Nice.
Just a question. Does the 3d printed shroud cover the fins of the heat sync? It kinda looks that way. My understanding of how these air cooled cards work is they push air out the sides of the card, unless there is a pass through like the FE models. If the printed shroud is blocking even some of that airflow, it would have a negative impact on these results. Looking back at the original 3060 shroud… A lot more of the fins are exposed. May need a reprint/retest IMO
Try doing the case by it's by removing the front panel flip flipping the case so that that is the bottom and the back of the case all the plug INS and stuff on the top
Exactly the information I'm looking for. I actually got the 4080 Noctua myself and was so impressed by how silent it runs that I needed to know how to make it again if they don't continue producing this line again. Glad to know it's possible to do it yourself. Good stuff mate.
I had the fan rattle too with my XFX 6800XT. one of the fan screws was just that little bit less torqued than the rest and if fans went above 20% it was bad, and only went away if I just went 100% on them, and making it stupidly loud.
Any chance you could flip the fans around to reverse the airflow direction? I have a case that could weirdly vent the hot air out of the case instead of inside the case if the direction was changed.
bruh i realized u "only" have 195.000 subs. u definitely deserve more. did something similar with my r9 290. put 2x120mm arctic fans on there, because the old ones failed. at full speed with sidepanel open + undervolting it runs at 66 degree celsius max
In the screen capture #1 you are showing the card hitting 1777-1800 MHZ at 52C, In the second it is hitting only 1725-1755 and is hitting the near same 53C. This tells me the test is not consistent, as the MHZ should have been the same if the temp was the same. My assumption is the testing window on the Furmark test wasn't sized the same.
Maybe the new design could be tweaked - try it!! The boost clocks are lower with the new cooler. Probably isn't able to cool the same (or force the air) as the original triple fan setup.
The clocks were slightly higher on the stock fan setup. 1800ish compared to 1750ish with the noctua setup. Probably within margin of error but still interesting.
I mean, frankly in the SFF scene de-shrouding is popular with some cases where using full-size desktop fans inside of a case with a modified GPU wouldn't otherwise be a viable option, so this is just a natural evolution.
I'm doing this with my 3080Ti. You should mention the cables that come with the fans don't match the cables headers on the GPU. If you use an adapter, the Noctua fans need to be 5V or 12V? Many things to consider.
Did something similar with a Deshrouded 3070ti. Have 2 Noctua 120x15 slim Chromax fans mounted to the bottom of an NR200 and 3D printed air ducts leading direct to the 3070 fin stack. Runs so much quieter but that card runs hot no matter what.
I have a 1070Ti and replaced the fans with 2 Corsair ML120's. A lot more quiet than the stock, but I don't have a shroud, so I know I'm loosing out on a little cooling efficiency. Watching this channel has really made me want to get a printer and start experimenting. Great video as always!
3060 is not high enough heatload to make a difference between these two cooling methods. However the noise is still telling the story of a better cooler. Maybe include noise normalized data next time?
I had an old friend who was obsessed with a silent micro pc build and took off the old fan and zip tied a 92mm noctua fan on a smaller gpu and it ran great and was pretty well silent in a pc the size of a shoebox
was interested in doing this but with the slim fans...just wasnt sure how to handle the cables...could you possibly include that as well? dont want to short out anything!
Now put the number one fan for the fan showdown on the card.
but the number one is the cheater, which would be difficult
@@drizzle1482 season 1 winner?
I consider that one as the "top fan" for a small size at least.
I was literally waiting for him to do it in this video lol
Now I want to see him figure out how to use the cheater fan on a GPU.
Put that fan that runs at 3000rpm.
Thanks to Digital Storm to giving you the "Go ahead" on this one! That's awesome!
Even if for nothing else, at least it is quieter than the normal configuration. Either way, this looks pretty good, and I HOPE that this thing becomes a real product to purchase at some point.
2021, the year where printing things for your computer is easier than buying one.
*If you have a 3D printer to begin with.
no, it is easier and cheaper to buy a prebuild
@@rafamacamp It's easier to get a 3D printer than PC parts
Just buy a laptop 🤡
@@Aesavyx Depends on where you live.
Meanwhile At Noctua HQ: ‘THIS GUY IS TOO POWERFUL… WE MUST STOP HIM…’
Naaaa more like; we are gonna hire him
Nah see all the cheap plublicity they are getting from him? All for the cost of 2-3 fans. On top of that all the free engineering what not to do or try this. This is a gold mine for fan developers.
The question this video posses is do I buy noctua fans for my gpu or do I buy a noctua gpu either way money for noctua
DIY but people have to buy Noctua fan to reach the same goal as him, so... it's a win win for Noctua
Like "Hey! Wanna move to Austria?"
Wait, I don't understand how you attached Noctua fans to a thing without using duct tape? 😅
Duct tape?! No; you’re supposed to use hot glue!
cable ties
Tweezers
BTW, there is a “duct tape”, that used in aviation (don’t remember correct name), sometimes pretty much unexpected, for example - temporarily fix a hole in the wing))) I think that kind of “duct tape” can be used to hold fans on a video card without any problem)))
@@thiagorabelo01 exactly! couldn’t remember ) thnx
Not only are these really fun and entertaining videos, but what I really appreciate about you is that you give people the 3d model of projects so they can save time and motivate them to have a model like yours in their hands. Keep it up.
made props to Digital Storm for fueling the content.
Yup! 😎
a tip for making the dimensions for the holes, scan it in a ordinary 2d scanner :-)
That's a great idea for any 2d part
After seeing the Noctua one i actually thought about 3d printing a shroud for my 3060ti and putting the 12x25 chromax on it that are coming out soon. I'm surprised we haven't really seen many or any 120mm GPUs over the years. Even on the biggest GPUs we still get basic 80 or 92mm fans.
Seems like the heatsink was the limiting factor as far as cooling goes and I've never noticed gfx card makers being concerned with noise levels, maybe if this joint venture sells well we'll get to see more 120mm fans on cards.
1. Temps were the same.. sure it was less noisy but temps are more important. 2. It would easy be a 4 slot card as slim 120mm fans arent efficiant like normal 120mm fans. 3080FE with small 80/92mm fans runs perfectly cool for example
It’s because it’s extends the life of the card and repairing the fan would be easier
Some cards have slightly larger fans. My Red Dragon 5700xt uses 100mm fans for example. Still not 120mm though
@@l0ki4321 unless you are mining on those and have them isolated...I think 10db noise reduction is a good reason to go with the extra effort in to making something like this. And if the official card is reasonably more expensive than the regular version, again it's worth it. If it's like 200-300$ more expensive then...yeah it's not worth it.
Dude... What card do you want? Cover the cost and shipping AFTER YOU GET IT and I'll go get one for you. Every time I go into a micro center, they have cards in stock
My microcenter is always picked clean... what store do you go to?
@@Vegatablez Denver and Kansas city
@@technewb8241 that explains it
Anyone been to the microcenter near cincinnati?
Dallas has all the Radeon cards - and $2000+ nVidia cards
I did the same with my evga geForce 1070 a few years ago, just with less 3d-printing and more just straight-up zip-tied a pair of unused fans to the heatsink. The Noctuas had a lesser current draw than the stock fans, so running them off the card was no issue. It might have looked a little "sketchy," but it actually ran 2°C cooler and didn't sound like chainsaw any more.
I did this many years ago. And ever since i've always replaced the stock cooler with 2x noctua a12x25 fans.
The one in the video has 3 fans and logically 3 plugs on the pcb but If you only use 2 does the controller behave the same as it uses 3 or is it just programmed to react to the heat and it doesnt matter how many fans? Im a noob
@@franzrecht6092 The fan connectors on a GPU is not a normal pc case fan connector. So you plug them into the motherboard or a fan controller. You can use software to control them. But in my case the Noctua fans are so good i dont really need to do anything but plug them in and make sure they run. My 2080ti went from 88c full load to 65c. But the most noticable thing was the greatly reduced fan noise. My PC is totally quiet thanks to Noctua ♥
Honestly, since i don't care about noise i'd use some ippc fans which run at 3k rpm
@@federicob.8313 How can you not care about noise ? But yes if you don't, why not go for some Delta 11k rpm 100w fans ?
@@federicob.8313 Are you deaf? Maybe he's actually deaf.
You done a bang up job of this, it is fantastic, can tell you're a professional designer and the end product is spectacular.
The 3070 Noctua is a 4 slot design too. And the noise level you reach is super impressive. I have to run the fans at 100% on my 3090 to reach steady state at 56°, and it's obnoxious. The noise is about 60% of why I'm watercooling it
56° is cooler than you really need. 70° would be very much fine as well.
why must you have it so cool? 80 C is fine but my 980 Ti (founders stock blower design) runs hot at 86 C
@@Sebbl3 depends on your definition of 'fine'. GPU Boost starts dropping frequency at 30° on ampere.
@@Dimondminer11 every 5° over 30 equates to a 15mhz drop. By 86°,my card would be throttling, the gpu hotspot would be coming up on 100°,and my VRAM would be overheating
In the 3090, it s not the core temps problème, it s the vram temps who is the problem. Unfortunately, it s a design issue. Some of the vram are not cooled a all and can reach +105c.
I think It will be a real challenge to do a diy cooler for this beast, if an after market cooler can do it, I will buy it and I pretty sure a lot of 3090 owner will do the same !
if you're stl files are free, you know this shroud will be on Aliexpress soon
Yes, especially on their fake GPUs
*your .... Is it really that difficult?
@@adoksym omg, I’m glad you came. His misplaced “you’re” was going to blow up the world till you came and corrected him; you are the real hero of this story.....
@@aaaafireball9322 Once in a while I feel the urge to make the internet a better place.
@@aaaafireball9322 "your the real hero..."
Damn, bro!
I wish this upload had enough views that Digital Storm ended up so dang pleased they decided to heck with it, & asked you to keep the whole computer!
If you don't mind me askin - You didn't by chance get to keep the card or anything did ya...?
Your relationship with digital storm &/or other PC manufacturers & assemblers will hopefiully reach the point where they are reaching out to you to have you try (& keep) their latest product releases to review.
Almost 200k subscribers... That next level for you is right around the corner man.
I'm new to your channel & only just subscribed, but the content is good, interesting & well thought out with good production value video & audio.
You just need ONE upload that hits it out of the park with the views & the algorythm runs with it..., & you'll wake up the next morning "On Broadway"
Keep it up, man.
You're killin' it
This is my favorite channel by far! You've managed to keep the fun in computer building and experimenting. Keep up the great work.
More videos like this please! I love to see you go from taking measurements and design to printing and assembling. Very cool see the process through
Great build. Maybe contact Steve @ GN or Jay to see if they'd be interested in a collab where they provide you the other 30 series cards and you make the Noctura versions. They could be tested against what the AIBs manufacture.
That would be cool
I remember more than quite a while ago, when the Corsair water blocks were leaking. MH was among the first to report this and Jay called him a no-one and he was obviously faking the test for video views. As much as I would like to think everyone is okay with everyone these days, I don't see how I'd be able to work with someone that said all of that about me.
@@Christopher_S Damn I didn't know Jay went in on MH in the past. Doesn't make sense but Jay seems to have D-bag tendencies.
@@kenpumphrey8384 Unfortunately so. It was at the start of 2020, about the Corsair GPU waterblock. MH was the first to spot this, and let Corsair know, they said it was just a defective unit, so send it in for them to check and they'll replace it. The replacement did the same thing, and MH reported on that too. Basically, it leaked if any pressure was on the fittings area.
People asked Jay his thoughts on it because he gave the product a rave review, and then claimed that MH was manipulating the issue to gain views. It was sad to see, because Jay instantly took Corsairs word on the matter, that it was only a handful of products with this issue (it was not, there was a rework done (which still did not fix the problem)).
Only in June (2020) I think it was, did Jay admit that there was actually an issue, and I've not once seen him say sorry for his accusations toward MH.
Either way, personally, even if he did say sorry to me, I couldn't work with him going forward after that.
@@Christopher_S I remember that water block issue. I just didn't see all of the content. I'm going to go back and look for it. Thanks for the info.
Can't wait to get my major hardware edition rtx 3069ti
3d printed fans 😄
Nice
Haven't watched your videos in a while and i have to say that your videos got significantly better in many aspects. Glad to see it.
12:07
I have a GTX970 that had a fan die on me and it was using these really weird connectors plus you couldn't get replacements back then anyway. So I threw away the entire shell of the GPU and zip tied two 120mm noctua fans. Now my problem was they were no longer reacting to the GPU temperature being powered as a case fan on the motherboard. But by some weird stroke of luck I had a motherboard with a temperature probe sensor port thing and I just had to buy one for a few bucks and stick the probe inside the GPU then set the BIOS to use the temperature for those fans. And yes it is the worlds ugliest GPU but it worked! It still works but I upgraded and it now sits there as a backup GPU in case of the worst. I wish I'd had the skill to make a cover but the important thing was the card was so quiet! And for me the temps dropped a lot. I was just amazed I'd managed to make it work so great stats was a super bonus.
How did you wire the Noctua fans, to the GPU's on board fan header?
As he had the wires free when he attached the cooler to the card, I'd expect he attached the wires to a chassis or CPU fan header on the motherboard. There are adapters to convert the PWM plugs from the GPU to the standard PWN plug, but I don't know how safe that is to do. (I've been starting research on my own shroud for a couple weeks now and wiring the fans has been one of the points of concern for me.)
@@JLProPhoto I've deshrouded my GPU (1070 Ti) and run case fans off the GPU header. Hasn't caused any issues in the past few years.
@@JLProPhoto Thank you for the information.
@@teguh.hofstee do you have them running on a curve or do they just go at 100 all the time?
@@JLProPhoto I run them off a curve, I used to control them with a custom curve using afterburner but I think right now they're just running whatever the GPU has as its stock curve. The fans are still idle until it hits like 45C or something.
Fan showdown series 1G(raphics) for optimising GPU temps & noise?
we need retro fits for all the old crappy cards we have to keep using. lol
I was thinking that, meanwhile I'm still using a 1080ti
Gtx 960 lets go!
@@Tigermoto 1050 laptop card and a 660 GeForce from the 00's
@@deltahat880 The first GPU to ever got my rig was a 660! Then I had two in SLI. Awesome memories
@@Tigermoto that’s a nice card! could be worse I build my pc a year an a half ago I bought a used rx570 to hold me over tell the 3000 series stuff was out…… that was an awesome idea!
Thats so cool. Awesome job man
Did the conversion cost $600? Because the markup from $500 to $1100 certainly communicates that ASUS needed $600 per card to do this.
Nah, he probably did it for way cheaper. Oh wait, he needed a 3D Printer.
Let's see:
A12x25 fans are $29.95 US according to Newegg.
He needed two, so that's $48.90 for the fans.
For the 3D printer material, we'll say he used 250g of material (equivalent to a massive print). You can get 1kg of 3D printer filament for less than $20 on some stores (PLA should be adequate, or you can use ABS). So the cost of the 3D printing material should be around $5 or less, depending on how cheap you can get the filament.
Let's also say that the glue he used cost $5, and the screws used to attach everything cost $2.
Adding everything up, you get $60.90, excluding the tools you need to do the conversion.
So it seems ASUS is marketing this as a premium product?
@@williamhuang8309 I didn't need the math done, my comment was sarcasm. But yea, you could buy the 3D printer with the fans and you'd still save a few bucks. ASUS is nuts...
@@dominic.h.3363 I was about to say with the $600 you could buy a new 3D printer and also make this thing 🤣
@@williamhuang8309 don't you think PLA will deform in the time with temps around 50-60*C ? ( I have a RX580, running easily in the 70-80*C range so, PLA would be a concern XD )
@Thomas Hannah Nowhere. I've read the same announcement article everyone else did. No other region-appropriate information about pricing or availability.
As soon I saw the notification, I was like "F*ck Yes!"
Can you put the quietest fan so far on a drone? Could even make it into a separate series to spice things up
Very cool project. The production quality of your videos is amazing. You're doing great and I look forward to more content from Major hardware
Now that it is actually out everyone is jumping on it. Glad I heard it here first. Your attempt was far better than Linus's Gorilla tape attempt. Haha.
having had 2 a12x25's zip-tied to my gpu for the past couple years, its actually quite a bit better than stock. I have them at 100% most of the time and they're never even the loudest thing in the computer, not to mention the temps are very nice.
You can use this card for the next season of Fan Showdown? Just replace the fan blades? Could be fun.
He's got to send it back
@@mattymattffs Most likely yes, but Digital Storm might be interested in a collab, if they are asked again. It feels like good advertisment to me.
Bro i wish your channel explodes, your contents are so original and so fun. Youre such a gifted content creator
Not sure why my heart sank when you said they sent you a pc with a 3060 in it you could use, I was like oh no you didn't, then lol you said you got their permission lol.
lol, Thanx Digital Storm for letting him lol.
3D printing really puts so much into the consumer's hands and I love it
Amazing job. It looks sick! I need to do this for my 2070.
I would like to see a test rig were the showdown fans are in the rig and the smoke gets pulled thru the case. maybe some different configurations of fans, different fans as push and pull to see the best combo, etc
I remember back in the 90s, early 00s, we were doing this with zip ties. There was an awesome community around silencing your PC. They were loud. They're still pretty loud. Lots of diy zip tie mods. Now you can make them pretty with zip ties.
Wow, this is incredible!! THIS is the kind of content that I like. Now you can start testing fan blade designs in the GPU.
it literally got announced an hour ago 😂😂
i seen that, lucky timing for me
8:23 I was hoping you were gonna say it had a lightning bolt like the digital storm logo.
Great job. Just be carful of putting PLA in a pc as it goes soft at 60 degrees Celsius and might drop those fans and (hopefully not) cook the GPU.
Great video. Keep it lit.
The PLA shouldn't be getting anywhere near 60 degrees since the actual gpu isn't over that, but that would be an interesting thing to test with a hot running and poorly ventilated case. Maybe just plastic wrap the case.
thats actually not a problem. the fans cool the plastics. ive printed fan ducts for hot ends in pla :-)
This is not a problem, I did this to my own gpu too. The 2 noctua fans are still attached to the PLA and the cooler. It has been running in my poorly ventilated p400s for almost a year now. Though I am thinking about reprinting them in ABS, because right now the parts have different colours 😅
Hands down my favorite video of yours. this was awesome and I enjoyed your design process.
Your asumption is wrong, because with both type of fans, you achieve the max airflow the rad can use.
Reduce noise to like 35dba or lower and you'll see a lot of difference in temperature. I have a 1080 strix modded with 2x120mm sw3 and im not only running much quieter but with slightly better temps. Im running 800 rpm (which is like 32-33dba) instead of the 1700-1850 on stock fans (something like 40+), and im getting 4-5ºC lower.
Graphics card deshrouding is a very unrepresented thing in the PC building community. It's amazing for GPU thermals and silent cooling. And it's especially great when you're using an ITX case, where the deshrouded graphics card with case fans brings fresh air in from outside of the case.
To find what is making the noise in the case take some plastic object and place it up against areas in the case with your thumb over the top and your ear pressed to your thumb it's a mechanic trick that i learned years ago
People from a hardware discord recommended me your video, because I modeled this graphics card in the last days as well. I am happy to see this one here :)
Yeah, that’s the right cooling system, made the same a couple years ago with my GTX1080, but didn’t bother with esthetics
BTW temperatures under full load in really small case were somewhere between 60-64C
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Same temps just quieter...not worth it but cool project
Unless something has changed - I think all the Strix series cards have the same HSF design and deshroud similarly, without the need to remove the heatsink from the card.
People have been doing this but without the shroud. I've also done something similar with a Gigabyte 1660Ti, which was loud AF and also had rattling noises at almost any RPM. I just removed the crappy plastic shroud and slapped 2 Arctic PWM fans directly on the heatsink and ran it like that. Temperatures were roughly the same but the improvement in noise was incredible, no more rattling and it even looked better. I'm not a fan of fan shrouds to be honest, I prefer to see the tech that does the job, the cooling.
I love these frankenstein builds you do, very cool! Thanks!
what is the looped you sampled from start to 1:20? if you don't mind
Now I can get a noctua card on a budget, thanks!
Thats a great modification! same performance with much less noise. great video dude I love the idea of creating your own design.
Do the fans plug into the board for gpu still or do you have to plug it into the mobo? Either way that is sweet.
Dude you did any awesome job! Looks almost like the "official" version. I think the only thing holding you back here is the heatsink itself. In the stock config the boost clock stabilized at 1770MHz, while the screen cap you showed for the modded version looks to have stabilized around 1717MHz, so that's a delta of 52MHz. That would seem to suggest that the modded version hit some sort of thermal limits earlier; preventing it from boosting more. I think the stock heatsink was the limiting factor for the mod. But it was really cool to see.
7:57 I CANNOT wait to get that printer myself! I use the QIDI Tech X-Plus currently, and it works great, but it only has one extruder! I can't wait to have dual extruders to use HIPS support for my detailed prints!!!
I would have LOVED noise normalised testing. Get the stock cooler back on it, run a test at full blast to check if your mounting is correct (temps in the same range as before) and then play with the fan speeds until you get around 43.2 dB.
This is the best computer-related video I've seen this month so far
I've seen in the past people putting 120mm fans on the Artic Accelero Xtreme GPU coolers and getting really good results. But not sure if they are compatible with 30 series cards
Thank you so much for this project. I love tinkering with my PC for optimum performance, thermals, noise, etc. This is the best channel on RUclips for all of that.
So new series of people sending in GPU cases and fans designs for you to test out like the regular cpu fan showdown? That'd be interesting..
that's really really nice of digital storm to allow you to do that. seems like a pretty chill brand
Paused At 12:00 for my guess.
Cooling: slightly warmer, but no worse than if the card was in a case with poor airflow.
Noise: quieter, but not noticeable to the ear because of other fans/pumps in the system.
Edit at 13:00
Nice.
I almost cried when I thought you put that die face down on the desk. Had to rewind to check you hadn't hahaha
Just a question. Does the 3d printed shroud cover the fins of the heat sync? It kinda looks that way. My understanding of how these air cooled cards work is they push air out the sides of the card, unless there is a pass through like the FE models. If the printed shroud is blocking even some of that airflow, it would have a negative impact on these results.
Looking back at the original 3060 shroud… A lot more of the fins are exposed. May need a reprint/retest IMO
Something about this video is so good. I feel like I just watched a lecture on how to be an Engineer. Super cool stuff
I believe limiting factor for the cooling capability is either the contact surface on the processor or the heat sync itself
Try doing the case by it's by removing the front panel flip flipping the case so that that is the bottom and the back of the case all the plug INS and stuff on the top
Exactly the information I'm looking for. I actually got the 4080 Noctua myself and was so impressed by how silent it runs that I needed to know how to make it again if they don't continue producing this line again. Glad to know it's possible to do it yourself. Good stuff mate.
By the way, did you just plug in the fan directly to it's original fan plugs on the GPU?
I had the fan rattle too with my XFX 6800XT. one of the fan screws was just that little bit less torqued than the rest and if fans went above 20% it was bad, and only went away if I just went 100% on them, and making it stupidly loud.
Any chance you could flip the fans around to reverse the airflow direction? I have a case that could weirdly vent the hot air out of the case instead of inside the case if the direction was changed.
Should had made the fan shroud poop brown.
What I think is that the fan shroud was blocking a bit of airflow compared to the one in thentweet.
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did something similar with my r9 290.
put 2x120mm arctic fans on there, because the old ones failed.
at full speed with sidepanel open + undervolting it runs at 66 degree celsius max
where do you plug in the fans? a random channel fan header? or an adapter to run them on the gpu so they fluctuate in fan speed like the stock ones?
In the screen capture #1 you are showing the card hitting 1777-1800 MHZ at 52C, In the second it is hitting only 1725-1755 and is hitting the near same 53C. This tells me the test is not consistent, as the MHZ should have been the same if the temp was the same.
My assumption is the testing window on the Furmark test wasn't sized the same.
Maybe the new design could be tweaked - try it!!
The boost clocks are lower with the new cooler. Probably isn't able to cool the same (or force the air) as the original triple fan setup.
The clocks were slightly higher on the stock fan setup. 1800ish compared to 1750ish with the noctua setup.
Probably within margin of error but still interesting.
Love this, respect to your creativity and digital storm for allowing this.
I mean, frankly in the SFF scene de-shrouding is popular with some cases where using full-size desktop fans inside of a case with a modified GPU wouldn't otherwise be a viable option, so this is just a natural evolution.
Are you sure you used the perfect amount of thermal paste?
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I'm doing this with my 3080Ti. You should mention the cables that come with the fans don't match the cables headers on the GPU. If you use an adapter, the Noctua fans need to be 5V or 12V? Many things to consider.
These Custom cooling things with 3d printing are so inspiring
Did something similar with a Deshrouded 3070ti. Have 2 Noctua 120x15 slim Chromax fans mounted to the bottom of an NR200 and 3D printed air ducts leading direct to the 3070 fin stack. Runs so much quieter but that card runs hot no matter what.
I have a 1070Ti and replaced the fans with 2 Corsair ML120's. A lot more quiet than the stock, but I don't have a shroud, so I know I'm loosing out on a little cooling efficiency. Watching this channel has really made me want to get a printer and start experimenting. Great video as always!
3060 is not high enough heatload to make a difference between these two cooling methods. However the noise is still telling the story of a better cooler. Maybe include noise normalized data next time?
The sides of the shroud do be blocking alot of airflow, so will we see a future upgrade to this?
Wow!!!I love creative people like you. I wish I had that facility to do it. Greetings Crack!
Amazing job, you actually got it close to the picture.. 3D printing ftw..
What about trying to use dual Slim 15mm fans? Like the Arctic P12 Slim PWM PST. Would allow for a thinner shroud.
I had an old friend who was obsessed with a silent micro pc build and took off the old fan and zip tied a 92mm noctua fan on a smaller gpu and it ran great and was pretty well silent in a pc the size of a shoebox
Nice. Argus Monitor would be great for this, would let someone set the fan speeds to follow the gpu temps.
This is super cool. I can't imagine how it is possible that one person (You!) can design and 'print' this stuff at home
was interested in doing this but with the slim fans...just wasnt sure how to handle the cables...could you possibly include that as well? dont want to short out anything!
I ran 2 of those fan like that on my old 1070 and stayed below 50c with max overclock. Super efficient setup.