Gadgetory

so you might have seen our video a little while back where we chopped up a GTX Titan so it could fit in a single PCI Express slot with a card installed right next to it that mod included water cooling no and we thought why don't we try and do one better what if we made a single slot card that's air-cooled Alex why don't you quit your bitching and get to work so get your angle grinders revving because the GTX Titan is going on the chopping block once again experience MSI's GS 63 VR laptop now with nvidia geforce gtx 1070 max-q check it out at the link below making a double slot card the height of a single slot card with air cooling isn't particularly easy if it was then this would be a lot more common than this this video has been a long time in the making so we got to work measuring every important bit of the Titan to make a SolidWorks model which will actually link if you guys want to make your own mod to one of these for whatever reason with the model for the single slot adapter made it was time to print now PLA filament would pass the glass transition temperature when the Titan was stressed turning into a deformed blob so we ended up using ABS with the 3d printed part in hand well one thing became clear and that's that our calipers pulled a zero like a drunk hits a bull's eye but all the critical dimensions were close enough so we just needed to perform a little bit of massaging to get everything to up kind of fit together for our next trick then we'll need a low profile fan thanks cooler guys you have everything now we were hoping to cannibalize the fan and mount it where the original fan went but unfortunately this press fit bearing holder prevented us from doing so so it was time for super cannibalization with this angle grinder and the savagery continues the wonderful cooler mounting plate for the Titan well I'm afraid that anything that was going to be too high to fit in a single slot was going to have to go excellent so everything seems to be coming together fairly well let's move on then to the final step which Brendon dubbed torture porn for nerds chopping up the heatsink originally we thought that just the good ol angle grinder would do the trick allowing us to relatively easily slice through these thin fins unfortunately that ended up taking too long and grinding aluminum is actually really sketchy so we moved on to our favorite method of heatsink chopping the reciprocating saw and oh oh oh no oh please stop all of humanity Oh huh like we said before using an angle grinder or a reciprocating saw those would be terrible ideas so we ran out and bought a belt sander to ensure that we didn't cause any more unnecessary harm to the heatsink while we cut down its size it really is amazing how much easier things are when you have the right tool for the job with the heatsink now at the right height we just had to remove any loose bits of aluminum because if one of those crosses the traces on the PCB it's game over and then slap it all together it's actually a little bit easier to assemble now than stock since there are way less screws so that's a plus the fan mounts with some strong double-sided tape the see-through panel had to be glued onto the outside instead of the inside like on the original model but I mean this was so that we could maximize the area of the fins because in truth having the glass on the inside would have meant about 20% less cooling unfortunately though when we went to test it the fan wouldn't work possibly because of the grinding we could have got another fan but if we're being honest that just wasn't going to be enough airflow anyway so we went back to the drawing board and designed a 140 millimeter fan to dryer vent adapter and a new single slot cover inspired by server GPUs without awful for the fan the good people at my mini factory printed that up for us the parts arrived and we could finally smash them into the computer as hard as you guys are smashing the like button right now so we bolted the adapter to a knock to a 140 millimeter industrial fan at max speed and then squeezed it into the case before connecting the dryer event to the graphics card we added some foam to the back to prevent the dryer vent from shorting anything out we then attach the vent the red green way lots of duct tape and finished it off with some duct tape for that industrial quality seal now it just needs to be encouraged in and we're good to go oh my god what is that Wow this actually looks like shockingly not I mean the Vics light is sort of unnecessary by that does this work where did it exhaust from okay that seems to be a bit of a design flaw there yeah did you not think to maybe cut vents here like single slot graphics card is usually do okay okay okay okay oh boy oh boy oh buddy oh boy you better shut this baby down before you overheat here and while we could have spent the rest of the day taking it all apart modifying it carefully and putting it back together it was easier to whip out the saw and hack off the last inch of the cover to give it some breathing room which hardly help - no of course it thermal throttled again because our heatsink was crazy restrictive and getting almost no airflow also this whole thing was kind of a dumb idea Alex did the calculations before he even started the project and no matter how much air you push across the fins if they're that size you're not going to get the cooling needed for a Titan so I guess the real takeaway from today's video is that math exists for a reason yeah some of us already knew that ring-ring who's there nobody this is just my hand but if I was using a real phone and I was calling ting the mobile carrier that's focused on customer satisfaction I would be talking to a real person no robots no automated phone tree no nothing because they actually care and what's crazy about that if you don't pay extra ting users pay only for the voice and that they actually use with the average bill being only 23 bucks a month per device 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