Originally posted by: Chrisped
Well I ordered the Accelero S1 Rev 2 and also the Turbo module. I got it in the mail and proceeded to install the cooler and fan onto my new 8800GT. The cooler went fine and the ram heatsink modules would not stick right. I read somewhere that they were heat activated so I figured no biggie, they will stick when I fire it up.
Now the heartbreak came...man o man did it come.............. I pushed and I mean I pushed really really gently on the Turbo fan. See they have clips that go through the heatsink and at the tip are shaped like an "L" so they grab the underside of the heatsink and hold on. The first fan went fine.....when I did the second fan, it made a small "click" or "pop" sound. I thought it was the "L" clip sliding past and grabbing the heatsink, but what it was was the oil seal that was covered by a flimsy piece of tape popped and the oil for the bearings in the fan leaked out and the fan didn't spin freely like a normal stepped fan does, it was hard to spin...I was screwed!!!!:shocked:
So I sat there looking at my now passive cooler and was getting madder by the second, until a brainstorm hit me.
I pulled out my box of spare nuts/washers/screws from about 40 previous pc builds and came up with the following...................
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Notice I pulled out the plastic cap that covers the mounting bracket. It does nothing and it covers up some of the heat pipes and main copper heatsink that covers the GPU. This allows for more airflow over the heatsink and heatpipes.
The washers are plastic and since the shape of the cooler is a little curved, I could not tighten it too much, but it's plenty tight.
The result on Rivatuner is 37 degrees C on idle and 50 degrees on full load. Was not hard to do even!
Yeah a little weird, and maybe just maybe a 120mm fan would be better, but that is an 80mm fan at 17 Db so it's darn quiet. And the weight is minimal.
Just be warned that those Turbo coolers are fragile and I mean with a capital F.
Give it a try if you want!
Good luck!