ATI HD 7970M ON ASUS G73Jh

BRILLIANT!!! I dare not overclock this video card, not unless I have good decent cooling. This would actually work. I'm buying the fan lol.

Question, How will you power the fan?

What will you use to mount the fan? Some sort of double sided tape?

I just ordered Artic Silver Thermal Adhesive. I plan on removing the thermal pads and replacing it with the thermal adhesive.

What did you think of my set up? What would you change?

Might be a good idea to order it from here.

Delta DC Fan 30mm 5V 170mA BFB0305HA 7500 RPM 1 45 CFM Brushless Blower | eBay

The one you linked to is in NY, and right now NY is in pretty bad condition, they don't even have power ;,( I hope they recover soon.

 

I am waiting for my card so i did some mods to spend my time!


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Your picture answered my question.

I don't know much on how power works on the motherboard, but isn't the mother pushing out 5v already to the CPU/GPU fan? Adding another 5v won't slow down the CPU/GPU fan since power is now also being drawn from another fan?

I like your idea I think its awesome and I will do this.

 

Yes! But this is a small fan and I don't think the gpu fan wont slow down so much and if it happens I will do the mod to put the fan at 100%
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The pics was very poor quality so high pics! =D
And also I bought this small things
http://www.ebay.com/itm/290392892819?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649


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I already ordered my fan. Hopefully I will get the AS Thermal Adhesive and the fan before the end of the week.
I'll be honest, I was expecting a bigger audience in this thread lol.
I've also decided to ad copper heatsinks to other areas of the video card just to bring down the temps some more.

 

goodluck guys, im counting on you

if it goes stable then i will get a clevo 7970 right away

 

When I overclock my card the VRMs get hotter? I think I will do a VMod to degrees the temperature because I have a 720qm so I will have botneck with overclock In my 7970

EDIT
hey people!
Anybody knows what is the small thing between the wifi and gpu like a connector? I dont know

 

I mite do this mod lol but with push in connectors lol I had this idea I just couldn't find a blower fan small enuf so thanks also as of the connector that ur on about I really don't know what it is for ! Think it mite be a programming port of fault reporting port ? But I'm not shore. But the one in the bottem right side of the motherboard is for a Bluetooth module also I'm gonna start work on the CPU water block I know how I'm going to do it going to be hard tho as I'm going to have to mill it out with piller drill not going to be an easy task Lmao I'm going be be using 6mm pipe. Ps my pump works great 2.8l in a min Lmao it's messy looking at the min but now I know it works I will be cleaning it all up and give it a spray I used viton rubber seals so pump will take 100c and no chemicals will bother it

 

I put the fan and closed it but I can fell a little pressure on this unknown "connector?".
I think this won't be a problem and I have a good amout of fresh air going through the coopers!
I can't wait to test my ideas
It Think this will work very well!

PLEASEEEEE
Anyone can send the bios with enduro off??
The one Hax posted isn't working
"Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

 

Card is being shipped out today.

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Just ordered a Samsung 830 128GB as well.

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My card is in NY now and it will arrive on Monday! I can't wait for it!
And Cuban a ssd is great upgrade I already have a small one, patriot inferno 60gb and I upgraded the screen to a full HD mate !
Here a video with my fan working!
Enjoy

 

Looks good I might have to do that modification too depending on heat. My card will be here on Friday.

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A photo that describe the thermal area!
It will help to put the coppers in the corect place.



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It's the black ICs that you are most worried about, so long as the inductors are not covered up they should be ok.

 

Vbios from F9zSlavik!
Thanks!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h702yvqqeisyejs/7970M.zip

 

Which ones are the inductors?

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as soon as i hear enough from you guys, ill be getting my card too

wait, i have a question, is the targus universal 180w psu enough to handle the 7970, supposed that it will be not oced running just on stock alongside with a 920xm stock also

thx!

 

180w PSU will run the laptop but like I said. Earlier in this thread it isn't a Gd idea the power drop on the PSU will be quite high so not good for the power regulating circuitry on the mother board and the psus life will be shortened drastically

And my hd 7970m is 100% stable and plays king Arthur 2 role-playing wargame dx11 on full wack also I managed to get the 940xm at 3.924 GHz stable just with heatpipes carnt wait to watercool the beast n see what me can get then as its just high temps that's stopping me braking 4ghz

 

How the hell did you get 3.94???

That's awesome!

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I downloaded the 12.11 drivers, 3dmark11 went up 4800+ point to 5200+ points. My desktop, which has a 6970 and a 9800gtx (for phsyx) scores 5300 points. Gaming wise, they are practically on par.
I'm going to order a new screen. 1920x1080

 

Did you cover just the pieces that you have pictured or did you also cover all the items in green on the image of the 7970M?

 

all

 

That's great!
Nice scores with this new driver!
And a new screen is a good upgrade
I already have one!

 

I plan on adding another copper heatsink in the middle of the two. Those chips do get quite warm. Might even draw some heat awake from their neighbors.

Still waiting on my thermal adhesive and fan blower.

 

Those black for in the middle? I though on the last page it was said not to do that.

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Did it? Why would it be a bad idea i mean your drawing heat away... unless they need the heat?

 

If you can put more coopers is better than put a few
I have some ideas and when my card arrive I will do it and show some pictures

 

I'm just guessing that's what he was referring to. You may want to wait for a response it request one

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Ahhhh the 4 blacks one
You're right
They don't need coopers
But I think he said to put it between the VRMs

 

Ok dumb question what are the vrms?

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Voltage regulator module - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In short.

A voltage regulator module or VRM, sometimes called PPM (processor power module), is a buck converter that provides a microprocessor the appropriate supply voltage

 

[Tutorial] Graphics Cards Voltage Regulator Modules (VRM) Explained - 3D Tech News and Pixel Hacking - Geeks3D.com

 

So I tried to look on those pages on my phone but didn't see anything that looks like our board. Can you point me to what on the 7970 it's the VRM so I can cover it tomorrow?

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Never mind lol

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My little fan blower just came in and also my adhesive thermal paste.

So is it or is it not a good idea to put a copper heatsink between the grey capacitors (the 4 ic chips)?

This fan is sooo tiny!!!! lol Not even sure what screws to use lol

 

Ran into a problem installing the fan. It's too big to mount it between the wireless and the video card. At best, I have to angle the air flow towards the vrm's.

 

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You need to cut the fan in some parts to fit
I had the same problem and I cut a piece where the air is going out


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Can you send me a picture up close on how you cut it? My fan burned out ;( Need a new fan ;/

 

Burned? How?
EDIT
I remove the top of it
And i will cut because the coopers
I test with a 5850m and it was good
But in 7970 I will remove a piece where the fan contact the VGA and the coopers
I will take a foto next week
I will stay in my GF's house all the weekend

 

Well... I plugged it in a desktop to see if it work and then it basically caught on fire. 0_o

Anyways I already finish adding the adhesive to the 4 major parts of the video card. Also added a copper heatsink in the middle, and I was right it drew heat away from every where else. I am running furmark and it is no longer blue screening. I may not even need the fan. All other heatsinks still have thermal pads.

 

Could you send a picture of your new job?
Edit
Your fan burned because it is 5v and in your pc is 12v, I think
I tested it using the power from USB

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I have my usb drive ready to go. I"m going to try and figure out how to, but can someone explain how i am supposed to boot off the usb flash drive?

 

You already have your video card in your machine?

 

No I'm waiting for fedex to deliver it. I'm going to see if it boots without blindflashing it. I have one of the cards that has enduro disabled so I'm going to see if it boots all by itself. If not, I have the USB drive with the autoexec.bat, the 7970 ROM and atiflash.exe.

I guess whatever settings that need to be set when I was having the issues with GSOD are still in place. I removed my optical disk secordairy hard drive and I will remove the primary hard drive and when I push esc it will be the only option I have. Then I'll type autoexec and cross my fingers.

Did you ever take a picture of your updated mosfit locations?

 

It just got here!!!!!

 

to make your usb bootable i would use this:

93vBIOSa.rar

use the HP USB tool provided in that .rar archive and make your usb bootable with the windows 98 boot dos. then copy the autoexec.bat, atiflash, and rom to the root of the usb. boot off the usb and type in the autoexec

 

RGR. I'll make it again. I'm hoping that it will boot like we talked about with enduro disabled, but if not, i'll flash the crap out of it. I'm cutting up the extra gpu heasink I have now. I'll take plenty of pictures.