HR-05 MOD-by lolhalol

Ok I promised you guys a TR mod so here it is. It will be a semi-guide/pictorial.

I will be using a HIS X1650 Pro graphics card, but I think you can use this mod on most cards that use the same mounting system, but I strongly suggest that you don't use this mod on any card higher than a 1650xt, because I doubt that it can handle the heat loads of the high end cards. Also once you use the hr-05, u can't fit the card
into a case anymore as the HR-05 is very tall.

You will need:-
1) Needle nose pliers
2) A small Philips screwdriver
3) TIM, mine personal choice Arctic Silver 5 or Ceramique
4) Arctic Cleaner 2 Step cleaning solution
5) Tack Cloth or any cloth

Ok let's start of by looking at the card.


It uses an old school Arctic Silencer. Even though it is quite and U.V. reactive, I think my hr-05 can beat it.

You can remove the heat sink by unscrewing four screws at the back.


Look at that, the amount of aluminum of the stock heat sink is a lot.



Then the card looks something like this. Naked.


Here is your HR-05 kit.


Take the longer cross bar, and put the push pins through, like this.


Apply your Tim, but before that remember to clean the core and the base with arctic clean.


Then just push the pins through the cards mounting holes, I suggest you orient the heat sink in the way I have, if not the heat sink will touch the PCI slots.


This post has been edited by lolhalol: Jan 26 2007, 06:25 PM

And you are done. Simple right, took me less than 10 minutes.
Here are some more shots of it.





You can also use many other chipset heat sinks, like this the ZALMAN ZM-NB47J.


Some shots of it running with a fan mounted on it.



This post has been edited by lolhalol: Jan 26 2007, 06:26 PM

What's the differences in temps?

Please post the cooling result too. Thanks for sharing ya.

there is a poblem with the card, cant get temps on board.even with ati tool, now i will purchase a temp probe from allngap or singapore to check..temps up soon

Well, the main problem with using this kind of mod is, it will eat up more pci slots, so, no room for crossfire nor SLi...

hehe true but its ok, i wont go cross fire, but u can mod the hr-05 sli, by bending the heatpipes up.

if u bend it up.. is it possible for you to lock the pin to d card PCB.. ??

looks nice wor.... dont know whether can Noctua NH-U6 fit on x1950pro or not?

anyway, it is a nice one. haha

oh god /.. i wonder how many people can do so .... might as well get a better cooler .. this is just so awful....

in convenient and waste the case spaces and other PCI slots... ...

anyway really creative mod ...

Will the basics of heatpipe theory still work?

What does you mean by that bro?
Mind to explain?

In general the basis of heat pipe refer to the heat would transfer from the hot end to other cool end. under the condition the cooler is not mount upside down ......

since this HR is mounted up side down ... would the heat able to transfer from hot to cool end as quickly possible as heat goes up faster rather than goes down...

Owh, now that explains...
A new lesson learnt today...

darn, good mod but thing will not fit into my case.
oh yeah, bending it will be good, maybe we can get a HR-05 SLI abd bend those pipes since those have slightly longer pipes

well now days heatpieps can work even if upside down, coz of the wick inside. anywy this mod i snot intended for cases, for openbench, and so far seems to be neter than the stock cooler coz can oc more, but this is in no way to judge the performance.

hmm.. do u mind to show the result before and after modding ... interested to see how well this small cooler could work on the gc ...

i think all/most GC from HIS doesn't have temp probe...
i can't even check mine too.... until my fren told me that his x1300 having the same prob...

its not most it's most of the lower end serious card does not comes with it .....

at least my card can show the temperature ....

ok... just discovered that i can check temps, with ati tool, seems acurate so, wil post some results this weekend. or next..cny is a bi**th so much cleaning...