Installing An Aftermarket VGA Cooler

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Hey all,

I recently purchased an Arctic Twin Turbo II cooler for my GTX 680 FTW card, as it was running pretty hot already and Summer is almost here. All the reviews have stated that the instructions were difficult and I can confirm that they are. The cooler is so generalized that it is difficult to determine what goes where. I was hoping someone could take a quick look at the instructions and clarify what step 4 means: "Apply the insulation tape onto the circuit components in order to prevent short circuit caused by RAM and VR heatsink interference." Where does this tape go? I don't want to fry my card! Also, if anyone who has done this with a 680 is reading this and happens to have a picture of where the heatsinks go that would be great so I could double check. It's my first time doing this. Thanks.

-Justin

DIRECTIONS: http://www.arctic.ac/fileadmin/att2/manual_en.pdf
 
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It just means bung it on the top of the VRM and RAM, I'd imagine the underside of the cooler would shaped to where they make contact, mirror that on the card. If you screw it up its unlikely anything bad will happen, think of all those people using custom brackets to put Corsair coolers on video cards, they don't cool anything but the GPU itself.
It just means bung it on the top of the VRM and RAM, I'd imagine the underside of the cooler would shaped to where they make contact, mirror that on the card. If you screw it up its unlikely anything bad will happen, think of all those people using custom brackets to put Corsair coolers on video cards, they don't cool anything but the GPU itself.
 
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Literally just slap it on the top? Sorry for the stupidity I'm still a novice.. but I figure the best way to learn is to get experience.
 

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Okay great much easier in that video then with the crappy directions. So basically cover anything metallic that's sticking out to prevent metal on metal contact.

 

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