Now I personally haven't seen anything like this before so I figured I have to post it here. This is my custom GTX 260 air/water cooler. The GPU is water cooled using a swiftech universal cooler while the rest is cooled by the stock fan cooler. Hope you guys like it. When I save up some more cash I plan on doing a GTX 295 :) or maybe a dual card thing like this :O

I did this a few days ago when I wanted toi use my stock GTX 260 heatsink and a swiftech universal GPU waterblock



I had to remove the newly cut fins one at a time as not to bend the rest of them. Needless to say it was tedious as hell.

I also had to cut two holes for the tubing to pass through.



Not my best work. I should have used a sanding bit. Not too shabby I don't think but I know I could have done better.



I did even them out a bit but my camera battery died so i have no final product pics yet, sorry.

Another mistake I made was cutting the last heatpipe thinking I was going to remove it as well.


I am going to try and solder a new piece of copper tubing there and patch it as I think it will help a little bit in the long run.

Here is what it looks like with the Swiftech



this corner gave me the most trouble

I have since cleaned up the cuts there and on the side of the fins using a dremmel cutting wheel and "shaving" each fin on both sides to get it to look original.

Another "fitting" pic


So i assembled the pieces to see what it is going to look like somewhat.


 Looks like its fitting nicely.



Snap the top on and here's what we have now




After some painting and stuff here is where we are now. Also Yes thats a GTX 275 backplate on there. Looks and works great I think.





ATM I'm working on a P55FTW i7 system all water cooled. I think I may even have enough money for one of the new Nvidia cards soon ;)

Very impressive!

i got allso 2 of thouse water blocks lying around and i dont know what to do with them :S

about that corsair dominator fan what size fans are i know they are 60mm but what is thickness of the fans is it 20mm or 25mm?

Im thinking about buying one of thouse and painting the blades red or buy couple 60mm red led fans

Some people have a lot of patience/talent !

Thanks so much guys. Do you guys know if I am eligible for the 1k contest? I think I may not be because I don't have a 3dmark score. Sadly the rig is being upgraded atm with some new hardware. New EVGA FTW 1156 board with an i7 CPU along with some dominator ram . I'm waiting for some parts in the mail and it's killing me. The state of her ATM

about that corsair dominator fan what size fans are i know they are 60mm but what is thickness of the fans is it 20mm or 25mm?

Honestly I don't remember. I had a leak in the XSPC  res and had to strip her down so I could replace some stuff. I had screens somewhere of the temps but for the life of me can't find them

Snowman Honestly I don't know. I just removed the stock fans and painted them to look cool.

Detale

Thanks so much guys. Do you guys know if I am eligible for the 1k contest?

 


Excellent job.  To be eligible, you must have 3DMark score AND image uploaded.  You will see a graphic stating when you are eligible.

Are the coils really useful or r they for looks?

Wow!  Looks great.  You put a lot of work into that thing.  Nice job!

I'll try and get some up today guys :)

very impressive build you got there.

Also may i ask how you mounted your SSD?

Thanks guys for the kind words. I mounted the SSD's to this cheapo $7 bracket here ATM it's just sitting there. I may mount it there permanantly but I have a few things I want to do to the bracker first

A custom built computer is always better because you know what you want....
I have the 800 D also it is killer.

Thanks,
Mack4033

I love it very very impressive.

How are you liking that EK bay res?

Still waiting on my Mips Ram cooler damnit!!!