Hello everyone, I recently purchased a EVGA GTX 680 04g-p4-2686-kr 4GB on Craigslist for $25. The card did not come with the factory shroud because the previous owner sold it long ago since he had this card underwater. He sold the waterblock, so I'm stuck with purchasing the shroud. I'm asking anyone that has a spare shroud to sell it for a good price as I'm running an air cooled rig and want to SLI this card alongside my EVGA GTX 680 FTW+ 4GB as this card is also 4GB too. I have swapped the heatsink from my working 680 FTW and this card seems to work good. Apparently, the previous owner thought the card was no good. I tested it with multiple runs of Heaven and 3DMark 11 and let it run for a few hours. The clocks on the card are the factory clocks in this test as I only mounted the heatsink and Jerry rigged 2 tiny fans to blow through it. At idle, the temps are about 35 degrees Celsius and never went beyond 80 when pushed. So far, the card works great and I am currently testing on games and it's stable so far. If anyone has a spare reference design, I'll buy it, I would like this models specifically but any brand reference style shroud works. I'm happy with my $25 purchase of a 680 so far, lol
The card did also came with a backplate too. So I only need the shroud/fan assembly. I would be grateful if anyone can provide an EVGA branded shroud for this card because I also registered it with EVGA. It would be nice to be able to RMA it as it has about a year or two left on the warranty from today and I would need an EVGA shroud to be able to return the card.
Here are a few pics to see my Jerry rigged fans in action.
Here is the original ad on Craigslist.
The card did also came with a backplate too. So I only need the shroud/fan assembly. I would be grateful if anyone can provide an EVGA branded shroud for this card because I also registered it with EVGA. It would be nice to be able to RMA it as it has about a year or two left on the warranty from today and I would need an EVGA shroud to be able to return the card.
Here are a few pics to see my Jerry rigged fans in action.
Here is the original ad on Craigslist.