NVIDIA RTX A2000 SFF Graphics Card Modded With Passive Heatsink, Runs Just As Good Minus The Noisy Stock Cooler
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX A2000 SFF graphics card has been custom modded by a user at the SFF.Network with a passive heatsink.
User REVOCCASES on the website SFF.Network (smallformfactor.net) modded the NVIDIA RTX A2000 graphics card which he terms the KalmX edition, a callback to the Palit GTX 1650 KalmX edition which featured a passive heatsink.
Since there's no official passive-heatsink for the NVIDIA RTX A2000, the modder decided to use the Arctic ACCELERO S1 R2 cooler, and an additional CNC machined copper plate for the design. The card measures 135mm x 220mm and offers two slots on one end. A custom baseplate had to be made to allow compatibility with the NVIDIA RTX A2000 graphics card.
As for the NVIDIA RTX A2000 itself, it is one of the smallest workstation graphics cards that is based on the GA106 GPU with 3,328 CUDA cores and has a 6 GB 192-bit memory interface. The card sips in just 70W of power but with a custom V/C curve, the modder was able to get around 1500 MHz at just 750mV.
In response to benchmarks that REVOCCASES completed, the user stated:
[I]t works great! [E]ven at stock settings it does not throttle and performs just as good as with the noisy stock cooler. For best (passive-) cooling and performance however, it would be ideal to place the GPU in a traditional layout case to support natural airflow trough the fins and adjust the V/C curve in afterburner to something like 1500 Mhz @ 750mV.
NVIDIA RTX A2000 Temperature Results (Image Credits: SFF Network):
As for temperatures, the passively-modded NVIDIA RTX A2000 graphics card was able to sit between 65-75C temperatures which is really good for a small design such as this card but most importantly, the card performs just as well as it did with its stock
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