The graphics card we are using today to mount the
Titan Eagle Universal VGA cooler on is a Radeon X300
Pro, since the Eagle has three different
points where the mounting studs can be placed the
first thing was to find out the distance between the holes
on our video card
once the heatsink was removed.
In our case it was the narrowest of the three holes
measuring 54.8 mm center-to-center.
The next step is screwing the
mounting studs into the mounting plate of the Titan, insuring that
you have tightened them both down as far as they
will go with out stripping them off is the threaded
holes. This will insure The Eagle sits flush on the GPU an will not run the risk of crushing the core
when it comes time to tightening the screws down on
the back-side of the card. One other thing you
must be sure to do is to install one rubber washer
over each stub prior to mounting it onto the card
itself.
The Eagle VGA Cooler comes
with 1 gram of Titan's Nano Grease thermal compound
so that is what we used for on our GPU so we
could see just how well it performs. After
applying a small amount of thermal paste we then
placed the two stubs through the two holes on
the video card making sure that our two rubber
washers were still in place a top our stubs.
Then turning the video card and cooler over we
then added one additional rubber washer to each
stud to protect the video card from the mounting
screws we were about to attach. Each of
the screws has a single spring attached to it to
insure the proper amount of pressure is applied
to the GPU without over tightening the Titan
Eagle Cooler.
Since the X300 does not have a power connection
on circuit board itself we were forced to use a
fan header on the motherboard which actually
turned out to be fine since it gave us a chance
to monitor the fan speed as we were testing the
cooler. To record the temperatures we
mounted one probe from our AeroCool CoolPanel
Display Panel to the back side of the GPU
mounting area and secured it carpet tape.
Since the X300 was initially passively cooled we
didn't image it would take to much to cool this
particular video card but we were going to work
it as hard as possible even if it meant burning
the card up to see how well the Eagle performed.
