Scythe Setsugen photos and measurements
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Scythe Setsugen photos and measurements
The Scythe Setsugen is turning out to be quite the remarkable cooler for me.
Below are two photos of the Scythe Setsugen mounted on my Asus 5770 and laid out on a seamstress cutting mat for measurement purposes. It appears as though there is roughly 2.5" from the center of the GPU to the rear/ IO side of the cooler.
The angles/perspectives of the shots don't quite line up with how it measures out.
I selected the Asus CuCore card for it's no reference design to allow room for larger air coolers. I don't have a reference 5770 on hand to take measurements from but it seems to me that if you have more than 2.5" from the center of the GPU to the furthest rearward extreme of your card, you should be good for mounting it.
The back plate for this cooler is a joke - it has a single rubber standoff in the center that really negates the use of it as a structural backplate. Because it stood so far off the back of the card I know for certian you wouldn't be able to use two of these in an "every other" PCIe XFire config. I had to do a jury rigged mounting of the cooler using some of the components of the Asus cooler because there wasn't enough clearance between my CPU cooler and the first PCIe slot.
As mentioned elsewhere, the fan on this cooler comes mounted pointing the wrong direction. I was able to flip it over and it workd fine like this for a few days until the fan started contacting the cooler. I shimmed the corners of the fan up about 2mm to take up the necessary space.
Idle temps are 34C with the fan at 20% and load (Furmark, 5 minutes) at 57C with the fan at 50%[/img]
Below are two photos of the Scythe Setsugen mounted on my Asus 5770 and laid out on a seamstress cutting mat for measurement purposes. It appears as though there is roughly 2.5" from the center of the GPU to the rear/ IO side of the cooler.
The angles/perspectives of the shots don't quite line up with how it measures out.
I selected the Asus CuCore card for it's no reference design to allow room for larger air coolers. I don't have a reference 5770 on hand to take measurements from but it seems to me that if you have more than 2.5" from the center of the GPU to the furthest rearward extreme of your card, you should be good for mounting it.
The back plate for this cooler is a joke - it has a single rubber standoff in the center that really negates the use of it as a structural backplate. Because it stood so far off the back of the card I know for certian you wouldn't be able to use two of these in an "every other" PCIe XFire config. I had to do a jury rigged mounting of the cooler using some of the components of the Asus cooler because there wasn't enough clearance between my CPU cooler and the first PCIe slot.
As mentioned elsewhere, the fan on this cooler comes mounted pointing the wrong direction. I was able to flip it over and it workd fine like this for a few days until the fan started contacting the cooler. I shimmed the corners of the fan up about 2mm to take up the necessary space.
Idle temps are 34C with the fan at 20% and load (Furmark, 5 minutes) at 57C with the fan at 50%[/img]
I've recently switched coolers with my pal - I gave him my S1 and he gave me Setsugen (him having compatibility zonks). And I have to say - S1 FTW. S1 cools my 4770 with no fan on it, only with the case's front 100mm @ 700. Now, Setsugen, with its 120 mm 10 mm thick fan manages to keep the card, say, 3-5 degrees cooler. Direct airflow, mind you. Fan blowing, not sucking. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice, compact cooler that performs. Especially on low power cards. But it has its butt handed by S1. Plus, S1 is way cheaper (at least where I live).
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Psyopper- I intend to put the same cooler on the same card.Âpsyopper wrote:I connected the Scythe fan with the stock fan header so that the card is running the fan. Unfortunately I can not confirm if the card quits with no fan. A few people have put aftermarket coolers/fans on these cards and I have never heard of this happening.
I note that you said you connected the Scythe fan to the stock fan header; did that require cutting off the Scythe fan cable and replacing it with the end of the cable from the stock cooler? Or is the header on the Asus board the 3 pin type?
Did you remove the fan speed controller that comes with the Scythe or just set it to max to allow the card to control the speed.
Inquiring minds…
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