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first there's the rattling then the squealing and then there's the embarrassment about your poor performance these are all symptoms of driving my car just kidding sort of but they are also symptoms of a broken GPU cooler and we're going to show you guys the red-green way to fix it HP's new omen X lineup comes equipped with Intel's seventh generation Core i7 processor check it out at the link in the video description will be attempting to fix broken fans on both a rear exhaust blower style GPU and an open cooler style GPU with our samples being this GTX Titan X and this Asus GTX 1070 both of them are actually working just fine by the way they was just in the wrong place at the wrong time if you've ever tried to do something like this you've probably noticed that replacement parts for video card coolers pretty much aren't a thing even for extremely common ones like invidious reference heatsink so we're gonna take a basic off-the-shelf reasonably high static pressure fan and examine how close we can get to the original ones performance but first a disclaimer doing basically anything we're about to show you will void the warranty of your GPU to pull out one of these you're basically done this guide is really intended for the graphics card that a couple years old now but is still performing well enough that you don't want to upgrade yet if you still have an active warranty get the manufacturer to fix it for you instead okay then so with that out of the way the exact tools that you'll need for this job depend a little bit on what kind of GPU have some of them can be fully disassembled with just a small Phillips head screwdriver while others will require a full eye fix-it kit or similar we also recommend though having a magnetic parts tray awesome thermal compound some compressed air a couple zip ties yes this will be one of those kinds of guides as well as I don't know maybe some duct tape fan speed controller and some hot glue yeah it's definitely one of those kinds of guides let's start by getting some initial readings first we want to know just how much of a difference it actually makes when you're deep you fans stop spinning so this need to taper up like that and then the real show begins and in a huge surprise to no one with no airflow the performance of these cards absolutely tanked the tight necks went from a silky-smooth 135 to a cinematic about 25 and at a core clock of 400 megahertz is basically unusable while the non-reference designed 1070 did fare a little better even in our torture scenario of simulating the death of all three fans at once it throttled to 1 gigahertz and about 90 FPS after a half an hour a testament to both the efficiency of Pascal and the clear value of this larger heatsink though with that said it's obviously still unacceptable performance so it's time to fix it up start by removing the shroud generally speaking a policy of you know remove any screws that look related and take lots of pictures while you go is a pretty safe bet here from here you'll need to unplug any lighting and power leads remove the fans with a bit more unscrewing so we just got 5 screws there each then there's some tape more tape than I thought and boom you got yourself a bear heatsink we're gonna secure our new fans with some zip ties that's right making sure of course to use decent ones so that they don't melt under a high load or get brittle and break over time I think this'll work a lot better than stock this really wasn't quite what I had in mind for this one next we need to power our fans looks pretty good hey normally the easiest way is to run the cables to your motherboard or to a fan controller Boop just like that now you could reuse the original fan header on your graphics card which would allow you software control in your GPU overclocking dashboard but it should be noted that some GPU fans are very very power efficient and the header might not be designed for something a little more power hungry so there is a chance that you could draw too much from it as for the tight necks we've actually thoroughly covered the pain-in-the-butt disassembly process for this guy here so we won't go into too much detail now but what we didn't show last time was how to remove the screws holding the fan in and extract the fan with a little bit of muscle and some help from a heat gun okay then now that the fan is out you can put the shroud back together and then attach the fans using the same technique that we did last time one thing that I would suggest kind of adding to the technique from the previous card though is some means of sealing around your fan so you've got a couple different options for that hot glue would be one maybe some kind of a double sided like a foam tape but we're gonna go with good old-fashioned duct tape okay not bad hey the results ended up being a bit of a mixed bag so the Asus 1070 actually exceeded even my fairly optimistic expectations we ended up boosting to two thousand thirty eight megahertz giving us an extra five frames per second in crisis versus the original three fans and we reached a maximum of 58 degrees Celsius so honestly especially considering that we didn't even have to take off and replace thermal compound to do this I can't think of a good reason not to do this to any GPU that you can easily take the shroud off this frickin rocks as for our other card that one was a little disappointing especially given that this is a mod that I have personally performed in the past we ended up reaching a maximum of 91 degrees Celsius and only about 600 megahertz on the GPU to be clear that's better than no airflow at all but if you're running a very high power GPU you are either going to have to get a little bit more creative about your cooling perhaps removing the shroud altogether and you know attaching the fan directly to the fins would help or using a much much more powerful fan or you are just going to have to take it on the chin and order a full cooler off of 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