I bought a 1660ti ventus xs oc as my first gpu back in 2019. I upgraded not long after and have kept it around ever since as a spare. I was never happy with this models stock cooling solution. The fans sounded like a jet engine and the heatsink was just a single block with a couple heatpipes. The card would regularly get up to 80c with a comfortable fan curve.
After doing some eyeballing and brief researching, I came across the asus gtx 760 directCU II. The PCB design was similar so I figured that meant the size and clearances in the heatsink would be close enough that I could attempt to make it work.
It did require a bit of shaving to clear in some areas. Not to mention, I had to relocate some of the mounting holes for the Turing hole pattern. I'm currently only using 3 mounting screws to secure it so before anyone freaks out, there is solid contact on the GPU die and has not affected performance at all.
Had to bend some of the heatpipes as well due to some clashing and as you can see the stock vrm heatsink and chokes JUST fit underneath the gtx 760 heatsink.
Here is the finished product with some nf-a9x14 chromax fans:
The best part is that it remains a two-slot card. I didnt take any screenshots of the benchmarks but the highest it hit in heaven was 56c after about 30 min.
Also, with a +100mhz core and +350mhz memory overclock the card didnt exceed 65c during 3dmark timespy.
I will update this when I gather some proper screenshots of the results but this has been a massive upgrade in both thermal performance and noise. Most of the performance gain is probably due to the addition of the noctua fans, but still not bad for a heatsink from a card that came out over 7 years ago.
After doing some eyeballing and brief researching, I came across the asus gtx 760 directCU II. The PCB design was similar so I figured that meant the size and clearances in the heatsink would be close enough that I could attempt to make it work.
It did require a bit of shaving to clear in some areas. Not to mention, I had to relocate some of the mounting holes for the Turing hole pattern. I'm currently only using 3 mounting screws to secure it so before anyone freaks out, there is solid contact on the GPU die and has not affected performance at all.
Had to bend some of the heatpipes as well due to some clashing and as you can see the stock vrm heatsink and chokes JUST fit underneath the gtx 760 heatsink.
Here is the finished product with some nf-a9x14 chromax fans:
The best part is that it remains a two-slot card. I didnt take any screenshots of the benchmarks but the highest it hit in heaven was 56c after about 30 min.
Also, with a +100mhz core and +350mhz memory overclock the card didnt exceed 65c during 3dmark timespy.
I will update this when I gather some proper screenshots of the results but this has been a massive upgrade in both thermal performance and noise. Most of the performance gain is probably due to the addition of the noctua fans, but still not bad for a heatsink from a card that came out over 7 years ago.
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