RTX A2000 Teardown! Copper Plate Mod, 20C Difference!

[@ClawGamingCG]

Yes i know my fans arent pulling air away and recirculating the hot air, where the fans are is a solid metal wall from the mining cabinet. ill have a new chassis to mount the fans infront of the GPUS to push cool air over them. The front door of the mining cabinet is kept open to the hot air is expelled into the open room to heat the room. Ample cool air is getting to the GPUS, they will be cooler once the fans are mounted infront dont worry, ill make an updated video once the server cabinet and new chassis'. Reason why its in a Navepoint Server cabinet is to consolidate the noise since iam in an apartment being shared with other people and i leave the door open to cool the living room/kitchen area. Fans at 80-90% are barely noticeable in that open area.

[@omarg9342]

I just copper modded my a2000 following your video. The results are awesome. Went from 82 on the mem to 68.

[@ClawGamingCG]

awesome dude! thats great to hear! happy the video helped!

[@cdwilliams2]

Following along nicely. Well done. About to test it out, No whammy no whammy no whammy!

[@cdwilliams2]

I used kryonaut extreme core and mx4 everywhere else

[@ClawGamingCG]

@@cdwilliams2 noice! how were your results?

[@professorh8398]

Thanks. I have the 8gb variant. I did this copper plate mod with kryonaut paste + the party in the back mod where I routed the gpu fan to the mobo using an adapter since it parasitically pulls 3w from the gpu otherwise. Saw on average an 8 degree improvement on idle 👍. I use it for 3D modeling.

[@ClawGamingCG]

oooo nice ill check out that fan mod, whats your ambient temperature? im sure you have it in a PC case and such since your 3D modeling

[@ImDembe]

The easiest way is still get a bit thinner pads from like Gelid and new paste, a few degrees on the cores and memory will drop 10ish for like 5$ per card and very few things can go wrong doing it.

[@ClawGamingCG]

no longer have it, sold the rig and got all my money back before the market got flooded

[@ImDembe]

@@ClawGamingCG Good thing, it went downhill pretty fast earlier this year, i sold my RTX2070 for almost 500$ that i had since release and a couple of weeks later it was worth half.

[@Granby64]

I’d change the direction of the fans on your rig, they need to be pulling air away from the cards as you have blower fans not pushing air onto the cards

[@ClawGamingCG]

yea those chassis are only temporary, ill be switching them to a more modular case so i can direct the fans

[@ClawGamingCG]

I did it so it circulates the air in the server cabinet and flows some air over the back of the PCB.

[@boriscrypto]

@@ClawGamingCG but your blowing hot air back onto the card. the card exhausts out the IO plate, and those fans just push that hot air back towards the gpu.

[@ClawGamingCG]

@@boriscrypto yea i understand that but theres no space from the fans to the back of cabinet its a solid metal wall. itll be fixed once i get a proper mining chassis where i can put the fans in the front blowing cool air over and not recirculating back over the pcbs/backplates.

[@intech7863]

26c amb temp with 50w home fan on back keep gpu's under 55c core and 78c memory 74-80% fan speed

[@johnwilliams5064]

You should look into shunt modding those a2000 :) Running 1140core and 8700 memory -> 50.25mh

[@ClawGamingCG]

ooo interesting, yea i came across before while waiting for the GPU's arrived, ill take another look at it and see. Thank for the heads up

[@johnwilliams5064]

@@ClawGamingCG using R020 on the back, don't even need to remove the cooler to install the shunt.

[@karstenweber7362]

@@johnwilliams5064 is the power consumption reliable when you solder it on the back? what does it show on your hive/software

[@johnwilliams5064]

@@karstenweber7362 no it is not, you need to solder a 005 resistor on the heatsink side. That will give accurate power readings ~85W.

[@justinorantes]

@@johnwilliams5064 to be clear, so are you saying to only replace the existing stock R005 shunt with a R020, or are you saying to piggyback the R020 on top of the stock R005? Also, are you saying to only mod the heatsink side, leaving the back alone? I would like to safely achieve the 50MH performance, but still retain accurate power consumption readings. Thanks in advance!

[@deathxxx1231]

You don't need spread on memory chips. The actual chip is in center and a normal dot in center will cover all chip area.

[@user-ly5ru8rl6o]

You have to use maximum contact surface.

[@0912781279]

This graphics card interests me. Does it work with a desktop computer Optiplex 7090 SFF - 10700K

[@ClawGamingCG]

should work fine, its small form factor should fix most if not all cases and even server cases

[@gigahertzmedia734]

What is the height of just the pcb itself, and would a slimmer cooler work? Looking to make the gpu around 13mm in height..

[@ClawGamingCG]

with the car laying down the card measures 167 mm in length, 69 mm in width. there has been cooler mods but since ive moved the rig into a basement the ambient temperature keeps the cards cool under 70c all year round. Theres also shunt mods and 3D printed custom coolers with other off the shelf fans.

[@gigahertzmedia734]

@@ClawGamingCG I'm looking to move the cooler to the side using heat pipes... Also, would an 80mm noctua fan with a custom shroud work? How would the temps be? (not in your basement btw)

[@distant_galaxy]

Coolmygpu is sending aluminum pads now instead of copper because of shortage. Do you think you can get some measurements to let us get a custom cut online? Or maybe you can just put one into the scanner with a ruler to the side and we can create a template

[@ClawGamingCG]

Let me see what i can do for you

[@ClawGamingCG]

i just looked on their site, the copper plates are still available, youll have two options for aluminum or copper

[@distant_galaxy]

@@ClawGamingCG Thank you. I talked with them and there was a mistake. Someone edited the home page saying that the copper was no more available. They confirmed it will be available as always. They are just adding an alluminum version for cheaper. Thank you for your time :D

[@BobDrenth]

What frame are you using? seems to fit nicely in a rack!

[@ClawGamingCG]

thank you! they are from newegg, you can search INHANDA Mining Rig Frame and its like $50-70 for the chassis and instead of using screws i used a rivgun (rivet gun) to just securely rivet the frame together instead of using screws. Theyre pretty handy course you get what you pay for so there maybe sharp edges or slightly bent from shipping but a light tapping and heat gun worked it all out! haha

[@4TradeStore]

where did you found the copper thermal pads?

[@ClawGamingCG]

coolmygpu.com link is in the bio

[@CatNMrDJ]

Interesting my Son 👍🏾 Mr DJ…

[@danielxyz2583]

wth, the GPU fan has to fight against the case fans no wonder the GPU gets so warm

[@ClawGamingCG]

ita currently no longer in this setup, they are now set up on open racks in open air in a filtered room.

[@fishfinder7083]

Nice brother! Do you have the 12g or 6g?

[@fishfinder7083]

I found out you have said it in the video, thanks though!

[@ClawGamingCG]

haha all goods, thank you for watching

[@HAREC1]

Hi Can you tell me the thickness of the copper plates?

[@ClawGamingCG]

1.08 mm thickness with my digital calipers, thank you for waiting!

[@profkorupt]

sheesh

[@ClawGamingCG]

yesssiiir

[@icetinkaya6170]

Hello. How thick is the copper heatsink? millimeter? thanks

[@ClawGamingCG]

1.08mm

[@icetinkaya6170]

thanks 🙏@@ClawGamingCG

[@saminjahan4037]

What's your ambient temperature?

[@ClawGamingCG]

here in California, ambient room temp is around 65-70F

[@saminjahan4037]

@@ClawGamingCG are your fans pointed in the right direction? They aren't pointing air back into the guys. Right?

[@ClawGamingCG]

@@saminjahan4037 its only temporary since this chassis will be swapped out for a different one. in the future so i can have mounting on both sides

[@noel.sk03]

awesome product but its expensive. plus shipping 20$ i dont know man.

[@ClawGamingCG]

$20 shipping?? mine was $84 for 5 copper plates and $5 shipping

[@user-si3vc8my8t]

Hi! How many mm thickness of the plate?

[@paopaoevil7106]

the same question

[@ClawGamingCG]

I didnt have a chance to measure with calipers, i have another set arriving this week, ill measure those and get back to you! thanks for watching

[@Slic3DnScal3D]

Same

[@Slic3DnScal3D]

btw. do you sell these?

[@ClawGamingCG]

@@Slic3DnScal3D I do not, i went to www.coolmygpu.com , im not affiliated or sponsored by them. i really wanted to try a solution to bring down memory temps and this came up on my google search

[@tadnaughty1469]

The camera angle, the wide open aperture and camera auto focus ruined the video

[@ClawGamingCG]

i agree, my camera skills arent that great, ill do better next time, thanks. I shouldve had a higher over head angle to focus more on the cards and what im doing rather than me trying to make it more cinematic. ehh still learning. atleast i put something out there to show my experience for it. Itll be better when i really figure out what i want to do with this channel. but thanks for letting me know.

[@user-ly5ru8rl6o]

Great work and cool mod!!! Buddy, can you give the dimensions of this plate?

[@ClawGamingCG]

coolmygpu.com