I MADE the Noctua RTX 3070 a REALITY!

so a lot of you guys might have already seen this i for one kind of missed it but luckily dusty was looking out and sent me a tweet showing me this gpu that asus and noctua are working on i guess this one's a 30-70 but essentially it's a it's a gpu with two a12 x25s in there and i saw that and to that i said we can build that i think and i got to look at the pictures on it and it doesn't look too bad i mean at first i saw the noctua fans and i was like ooh they might be like a special special design like like a weird roundish type frame but then i kind of looked at this picture that's kind of a from the end on showing the like the display display out and it looks like it's just a regular a12 x25 so it looks like it's two a12 x25 in a custom frame on a gpa or a rtx 3070 in this case and i think that's well within our wheelhouse to design and build now i assume that when this card actually does come out it's not only going to have two noctua fans going to have a knock to a cooler so we might not be apples apples on like the cooling performance but we can definitely get there in the looks and we all know that the a12 xy5 is a pretty quiet card so if we do this the card that we take to modify should perform just as good if not better and be quieter there's there's a small problem though i don't have a 30 70 i don't really have a 30 series card period but we might have a way around that thank you to digital storm for sponsoring this video digital storm's passion is chasing performance their motivation is delivering the world's most advanced pcs with 20 years experience their computers are built from the ground up with unmatched engineering and thermal design combine that with industry partnerships featuring the latest technology and they can deliver incredible power and performance that's trusted by enthusiasts gamers and content creators digital storm is committed to improving their craftsmanship to drive a better customer experience each pc is handcrafted with 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would work for what we planned problem is like i said not my not my computer so i don't want to you know take apart a perfectly good functioning gpu and well break it because it's always that chance there it is but you know i decided it's worth asking so i asked digital storm if they cared if i you know took their gpu out of their pc they sent me since i still had it and tried to convert it to the one tweeted to me by dusty and they said go ahead so we have a 30 60 to use we're going to try to take this apart make it look like the uh the one shown in the tweet and hopefully see how it performs and kind of get an idea of what we might expect when the real card does come out i guess i shouldn't unplug it yet we should probably run this card in its stock configuration run a little stress test to see how it cools we're not gonna be changing the cooler per se we're just gonna be changing the fans but it'll still be interesting to see we need to see at least the baseline so let's do that first also we need to listen to it because i assume that this card will be a lot louder than the one that we make with the noctua fans but you never know so here's our guinea pig and it is an asus card so that's cool so maybe it'll look even more authentic and here's a couple fans that we're gonna do i'll be using and they kind of go on something like that so that's the idea now we're going to take this thing apart and see exactly how everything's held together i also ran this you know in a stock configuration and it was a bit loud and actually as it was cranked up the full full tilt had a weird rattling sound that i couldn't couldn't quite find i don't know if it was a fan i don't know if something in the case loose but the noise level that kind of leveled out that was 52.5 at 100 fan you know with the power limit and temperature limits maxed out on msi afterburner and then about 10 minutes in the temperatures kind of stabilized at 52c so that's kind of where we are now and that's what we're going to try to try to beat here and now we're going to take this thing apart and figure out how we're gonna make this happen not looking too bad so far it's a nice flat surface we got four mounting holes here it should be relatively easy now what i like to do is um kind of take some measurements of this try to get a good measurement for the holes here and then we'll print out like a template like a just a nice flat piece of plastic that has these four holes just to try to fine tune where the mounting holes are because it's really what we need the most out of this setup also kind of measure the rough dimensions of this heatsink just we can build a a reference of it in cad and then we will get the mounting holes situated and then we'll start building the cooler on top of it trying to match what the picture looks like as you can see our fans are just a little bit bigger than this cooler so we gotta we're gonna have to try to make that work somehow they're gonna have to be roughly about here-ish to make sure we have access to the the mounting holes but i think we can make it work so this is how i like to start any project like this i just take some simple measurements of what i'm going to be working with so i want to build this so i want to make a reference model of this that we can start adding parts to and what i need to know is a rough length and a rough width and then i want to know the whole spacing for the mounting holes are going to be used and for the most part they're pretty easy because i'm using this as my origin point and i'm going to measure down to this this hole and then the distance between these two the pitch between these two and they're pretty much in an l pattern the only oddball is this guy so i'm going to be using this hole to this hole which is about 82.5 let me go down back to this hole here and measure the pitch between those two which is about 268. so i have our reference air cooler completed i added a little bit more information so i put this little extruded part on top so we can keep an eye on where this is basically where the stock fan cables run it's a little bit raised above everything else so i just want to keep an eye on it i mark the origin point with a chamfer here and then i also wrote video out and pcie so this is where the video out comes it out of the card this is where the card basically plugs into the motherboard so we can make sure we're oriented correctly when we get to designing the actual air cooler as for the whole pattern we just transferred over the measurements we made earlier and we're going to make a flat plate now that we can use to see if this actually matches the existing card and when it does we can continue on you know in the design process we have to waste a bunch of time on the printer we don't have to so the printer we're going to use is this qidi ifas and i i just recently got this printer i've been printing with it the last week or so just kind of getting the feel for it and i really like it but the main reason i want to use it is it's a dual extruder printer and i currently have it set up to print in pla and pva which means that no matter what kind of goofy geometry we decide we're going to use the support material can just be dissolved away in water which which is really awesome i've been playing i'm playing around with it a lot other than that it's fully enclosed so we've got to worry about any warpage or stuff like that and the biggest thing is that it is the largest printer i have and i think we can print the entire shroud in one go and at least that's the plan which will make it easier to assemble less glue and stuff like that for sure now that everything's out of the printer let's talk about what you're going to need if this is something you want to do obviously you're going to need the heatsink from your gpu the 3d printed shroud this is a fan mount so the the idea here is to mount the fans to the the cooler and then the shroud around that then i also printed some plastic inserts just to give it some colors that match the uh the picture online i i didn't i didn't put any branding on this i mean you could if you wanted to if you want to download these these drawings i'll show you where to get them at the end of the video but you could put whatever you wanted on them you're gonna need some of these self-tapping case screws i got four black ones just so i can again match the drawing and then for the g-force text some inserts for that now hopefully if everything worked out good this will all go together so the first thing actually i want to do is we're going to take the shroud and apply all the visual stuff so foreign what do you think do you think it looks i think it looks like the picture uh i think it's pretty close to what the uh the one that was tweeted to me looks like now it is it is a thick boy a little probably a little thicker than the one shown but i don't know um it's it's looking pretty good i would put this in my pc the only concern i have it's as long as it fits in the computer this will be pretty awesome looks a little close but i hope i didn't overlook anything now i don't know if it's going to beat the cooling performance of this the stock three fan shroud but i'm hoping it does at least beat it in the noise level because the the one that was on there the stock one was a bit loud and it also had a slight rattle to it i'm hoping this is whisper quiet and gives us similar performance but it won't know until we put it in there so let's let's give it a shot the results they're in now what do you think i'd be interested to see what you guys think this do you think it did better or worse than the stock card but first i think it just it just looks better i mean as long as you have the room for it it's very it's very thick but if you have the room for it in your case i think it looks better than the stock card shocker now when it came to temperatures though it was about the same i mean it was exactly the same this card stabilized at about 52 degrees after 10 minutes just like the stock car did however these fans they're still running full out came in much much quieter 43.2 this is so much lower it's incredible you can the loudest thing in this pc went from the graphics card to probably the aio pump or the case fans and that's full 100 fan speed if you turned everything down a little bit you can make almost a silent pc as long as you got a good air cooler or a nice quiet you know water cool loop something like that it's pretty it's pretty amazing now when the real thing comes out i imagine that the cooler they put on there will be a little shorter and the uh the heat pipe and fin stack will be more optimized to the a12x25 but for a diy solution if you have an rtx 3060 you could do this you could take away that stock shroud with those crazy loud small fans and replace it with two a12 x25s and have a nice quiet graphics card that runs at the same temperatures so yeah i'll be putting this model and all the pieces and this and the original files the stl files step files on my thingiverse account so you can go download it and put it on your rtx 3060. i don't know if it would fit on a 3070 or 3080 if it was a strix maybe but you can take those models you could modify them to whatever card you have or you just use them as a template to make your own but either way i think this is awesome and i can't wait for the real thing to come out to see how it performs next to this thing and then the brown it's it's growing on me but thank you guys for watching make sure to like the video if you thought this was awesome get subscribed to the channel and head over to thingiverse and print it out and if you make something sweet make sure to tweet it at me until next time you

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Id: rJDWBE1hBEs

Length: 14min 13sec (853 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 03 2021

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[u/ProjectInfinity09]

Thought this was cool to see in light of the recent Noctua themed GPU