**Testing a Budget GPU without a Heatsink**
Okay there we go it's not falling over that's the best thing for the fan to be doing well I mean we're in Windows look at that you can actually see the GPU die while we're outputting to Windows okay so it's hit 95 and now it's starting to throttle quite aggressively yeah as you can see we're at 666 megahertz and we're still hitting 95 degrees C you know it's still running like that's fairly impressive now this may be exceptionally stupid but it actually kind of works I mean the benchmark is running we're not getting particularly good results at all but this graphics card is actually working without a heatsink on it I mean we're sitting at 95 degrees Celsius which host which is not an ideal temperature to be gaming at and we're under talking quite significantly so at stock the graphics card runs at about 940 megahertz on the core whereas here we're sitting at 700 and something you know we're jumping around and in below 700 megahertz still though I wasn't expecting it to be able to operate like this at all
I'm gonna try and get even better temperatures from the GPU so we need more airflow it seems like my terrible idea is actually kind of working so what I'm gonna do is refine the process now I want to direct all of the air from that powerful Delta fan onto the tiny GPU die and I think the best way to do that is to well sellotape a funnel to the fan I have no idea if this is gonna work this feels really stupid but one thing that that gives me a little bit of confidence is the fact that the fan lines up almost perfectly with the funnel and that's definitely a sign that this is a great idea
I don't think this is working because honestly it feels like most of the air is just being shot out the back so I actually think it's throttling more heavily than it was before I mean we're hitting 400 megahertz on the core there but it jumps back up to 600 every now and then but it's really throttling to save its own life here as you can see it is exceptionally stuttering
The biggest problem with the plastic funnel is that it's very restrictive that holds really tiny so it means that the fan can't get all the air through it and then there's like a backsplash and stuff like that so I need to make a better funnel basically so I think it's time for some arts and crafts
After some pretty second-grade level arts-and-crafts who are ready to test the final stage of running a budget GPU with no heatsink on now as you can see the funnel doesn't taper as aggressively as the other funnel did and you know we have a bigger we've got a bigger outlet so hopefully the error isn't just gonna spill back out and the fan isn't gonna get all confused hopefully we're just gonna have a more directed airflow on the graphics card
And then something else that I did was I left all the windows open last night and as you can see the temperature in the room is quite low so hopefully that helps us get you know less throttling while gaming and here's the actual core frequency that we're running out which is a little bit higher than the previous configuration but honestly that could very much be down to to the lower ambient temperature with that it brings me to the end of one of the more pointless videos I've ever done on the channel but now we know that if you're using the GT 710 for its intended use case which is pretty much just outputting a video signal to a monitor then you can run it without a heatsink on that's what I'm doing right here there's barely any extra airflow over the salmonela GT 710 it really is a very resilient little beast you can set it free in the Sahara Desert for months at end with very little water and no additional cooling and it will keep on outputting ten video signals with that
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                        WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso I got a pretty stupid video today but  I think it's gonna be fairly  entertaining now I've been doing a lot  of content on the hilarious GT 710  lately and every time I interact with it  I can't help but think considering how  tiny its heatsink is and what kind of  amazing temperatures we get with said  tiny heatsink this graphics card should  be able to run without that heatsink so  today we're gonna answer the very  pointless question of Canada T 710  perform naked    now this is obviously a really stupid  idea and no one should do this at home  but I really think the GT 710 is  low-power enough to be able to run  without a heatsink on now the first step  is obviously to remove the unsatisfying  ly tiny heatsink to reveal one of the  most majestic GPU dyes I've ever seen it  really is it really is minut now one  thing that I would say is that that is a  good sign because you know there's so  little power under the hood that it  should work with no heatsink on another  thing that's quite promising is if you  look at the base of this loser heatsink  you'll see that it only makes contact  with the GPU so we don't have to worry  too much about the other components on  the PCB overheating I feel like at this  point this graphics card is regretting  ever being born and being sent to my  house because I don't know what it did  to me but I just really want to destroy  it you know but anyway this is the  configuration that we're going with so  we've got this little Delta fan here  which comes from an HP workstation that  fan pushes a lot of air through it it's  very loud and it's very powerful and  then we've got just an NZXT case fan  that's gonna blow air into that now the  actual ambient temperature isn't as  super low as it as it has been for the  last couple of days we're sitting at  about 17.5 degrees that's not ideal I  would like it to be colder in here which  seems to baffle people but with that  let's actually try and turn it on and  see if it even allows us to start it up  like I can't imagine this is gonna go in  both Oh things have gone wrong  immediately that was 100% the most  terrifying thing that's ever happened to  me that fan is so powerful if it's not  held up it blows itself over so I'm  gonna have to attach it to the graphics  card of it now this is definitely a very  ghetto solution but I've just got a  little bit of wire that's wrapped around  the back PCB let's see if it works this  time  okay we're good we're good for the time  okay there we go it's not falling over  that's the best thing for the fan to be  doing  well I mean we're in Windows look at  that you can actually see the GPU die  while we're outputting to Windows okay  so it's hit 95 and now it's starting to  throttle quite aggressively yeah as you  can see we're at 666 megahertz and we're  still hitting 95 degrees C you know it's  still running like that's fairly  impressive now this may be exceptionally  stupid but it actually kind of works I  mean the benchmark is running we're not  getting particularly good results at all  but this graphics card is actually  working without a heatsink on it  I mean we're sitting at 95 degrees  Celsius which host which is not an ideal  temperature to be gaming at and we're  under talking quite significantly so at  stock the graphics card runs at about  940 megahertz  on the core whereas here we're sitting  at 700 and something you know we're  jumping around and in below 700  megahertz still though I wasn't  expecting it to be able to operate like  this at all I'm gonna try and get even  better temperatures from the GPU so we  need more airflow it seems like my  terrible idea is actually kind of  working so what I'm gonna do is refine  the process now I want to direct all of  the air from that powerful Delta fan  onto the tiny GPU die and I think the  best way to do that is to well sellotape  a funnel to the fan I have no idea if  this is gonna work this feels really  stupid but one thing that that gives me  a little bit of confidence is the fact  that the fan lines up almost perfectly  with the funnel and that's definitely a  sign that this is a great idea        I don't think this is working because  honestly it feels like most of the air  is just being shot out the back so I  actually think it's throttling more  heavily than it was before  I mean we're hitting 400 megahertz on  the core there but it jumps back up to  600 every now and then but it's it's  really throttling to save its own life  here as you can see it is exceptionally  stuttering the biggest problem with the  plastic funnel is that it's very  restrictive that holds really tiny so it  means that the fan can't get all the air  through it and then there's like a  backsplash and stuff like that so I need  to make a better funnel basically so I  think it's time for some arts and crafts    after some pretty second-grade level  arts-and-crafts who are ready to test  the final stage of running a budget GPU  with no with no heatsink on now as you  can see the funnel doesn't taper as as  aggressively as the as the other funnel  did and you know we have a bigger we've  got a bigger outlet so hopefully the  error isn't just gonna spill back out  and the fan isn't gonna get all confused  hopefully we're just gonna have a more  directed airflow on the graphics card  and then something else that I did was I  left all the windows open last night and  as you can see the temperature in the  room is quite low so hopefully that  helps us get you know less throttling  while gaming and here's the actual core  frequency that we're running out which  is a little bit higher than the previous  configuration but honestly that could  very much be down to to the lower  ambient temperature with that it brings  me to the end of one of the more  pointless videos I've ever done on the  channel but now we know that if you're  using the GT 710 for its intended use  case which is pretty much just  outputting a video signal to a monitor  then you can run it without a heatsink  on that's what I'm doing right here  there's barely any extra airflow over  the salmonela GT 710 it really is a very  resilient little beast you can set it  free in the Sahara Desert for months at  end with very little water and no  additional cooling and it will keep on  outputting ten video signals with that  if you enjoyed this video like and  subscribe to the channel for more  pointless videos like this one follow me  on Twitch where I stream on Saturdays  it's actually going to be later today on  Instagram Twitter discord read it and  yeah until the next video thank you for  watchingso I got a pretty stupid video today but  I think it's gonna be fairly  entertaining now I've been doing a lot  of content on the hilarious GT 710  lately and every time I interact with it  I can't help but think considering how  tiny its heatsink is and what kind of  amazing temperatures we get with said  tiny heatsink this graphics card should  be able to run without that heatsink so  today we're gonna answer the very  pointless question of Canada T 710  perform naked    now this is obviously a really stupid  idea and no one should do this at home  but I really think the GT 710 is  low-power enough to be able to run  without a heatsink on now the first step  is obviously to remove the unsatisfying  ly tiny heatsink to reveal one of the  most majestic GPU dyes I've ever seen it  really is it really is minut now one  thing that I would say is that that is a  good sign because you know there's so  little power under the hood that it  should work with no heatsink on another  thing that's quite promising is if you  look at the base of this loser heatsink  you'll see that it only makes contact  with the GPU so we don't have to worry  too much about the other components on  the PCB overheating I feel like at this  point this graphics card is regretting  ever being born and being sent to my  house because I don't know what it did  to me but I just really want to destroy  it you know but anyway this is the  configuration that we're going with so  we've got this little Delta fan here  which comes from an HP workstation that  fan pushes a lot of air through it it's  very loud and it's very powerful and  then we've got just an NZXT case fan  that's gonna blow air into that now the  actual ambient temperature isn't as  super low as it as it has been for the  last couple of days we're sitting at  about 17.5 degrees that's not ideal I  would like it to be colder in here which  seems to baffle people but with that  let's actually try and turn it on and  see if it even allows us to start it up  like I can't imagine this is gonna go in  both Oh things have gone wrong  immediately that was 100% the most  terrifying thing that's ever happened to  me that fan is so powerful if it's not  held up it blows itself over so I'm  gonna have to attach it to the graphics  card of it now this is definitely a very  ghetto solution but I've just got a  little bit of wire that's wrapped around  the back PCB let's see if it works this  time  okay we're good we're good for the time  okay there we go it's not falling over  that's the best thing for the fan to be  doing  well I mean we're in Windows look at  that you can actually see the GPU die  while we're outputting to Windows okay  so it's hit 95 and now it's starting to  throttle quite aggressively yeah as you  can see we're at 666 megahertz and we're  still hitting 95 degrees C you know it's  still running like that's fairly  impressive now this may be exceptionally  stupid but it actually kind of works I  mean the benchmark is running we're not  getting particularly good results at all  but this graphics card is actually  working without a heatsink on it  I mean we're sitting at 95 degrees  Celsius which host which is not an ideal  temperature to be gaming at and we're  under talking quite significantly so at  stock the graphics card runs at about  940 megahertz  on the core whereas here we're sitting  at 700 and something you know we're  jumping around and in below 700  megahertz still though I wasn't  expecting it to be able to operate like  this at all I'm gonna try and get even  better temperatures from the GPU so we  need more airflow it seems like my  terrible idea is actually kind of  working so what I'm gonna do is refine  the process now I want to direct all of  the air from that powerful Delta fan  onto the tiny GPU die and I think the  best way to do that is to well sellotape  a funnel to the fan I have no idea if  this is gonna work this feels really  stupid but one thing that that gives me  a little bit of confidence is the fact  that the fan lines up almost perfectly  with the funnel and that's definitely a  sign that this is a great idea        I don't think this is working because  honestly it feels like most of the air  is just being shot out the back so I  actually think it's throttling more  heavily than it was before  I mean we're hitting 400 megahertz on  the core there but it jumps back up to  600 every now and then but it's it's  really throttling to save its own life  here as you can see it is exceptionally  stuttering the biggest problem with the  plastic funnel is that it's very  restrictive that holds really tiny so it  means that the fan can't get all the air  through it and then there's like a  backsplash and stuff like that so I need  to make a better funnel basically so I  think it's time for some arts and crafts    after some pretty second-grade level  arts-and-crafts who are ready to test  the final stage of running a budget GPU  with no with no heatsink on now as you  can see the funnel doesn't taper as as  aggressively as the as the other funnel  did and you know we have a bigger we've  got a bigger outlet so hopefully the  error isn't just gonna spill back out  and the fan isn't gonna get all confused  hopefully we're just gonna have a more  directed airflow on the graphics card  and then something else that I did was I  left all the windows open last night and  as you can see the temperature in the  room is quite low so hopefully that  helps us get you know less throttling  while gaming and here's the actual core  frequency that we're running out which  is a little bit higher than the previous  configuration but honestly that could  very much be down to to the lower  ambient temperature with that it brings  me to the end of one of the more  pointless videos I've ever done on the  channel but now we know that if you're  using the GT 710 for its intended use  case which is pretty much just  outputting a video signal to a monitor  then you can run it without a heatsink  on that's what I'm doing right here  there's barely any extra airflow over  the salmonela GT 710 it really is a very  resilient little beast you can set it  free in the Sahara Desert for months at  end with very little water and no  additional cooling and it will keep on  outputting ten video signals with that  if you enjoyed this video like and  subscribe to the channel for more  pointless videos like this one follow me  on Twitch where I stream on Saturdays  it's actually going to be later today on  Instagram Twitter discord read it and  yeah until the next video thank you for  watching