There are many things that I would do to my graphics card—undervolt it, treasure it, sing it lullabies—but I probably wouldn’t slap a gigantic heatsink on it just to eliminate the fan. Don’t get me wrong, passive cooling is nice, but I’m glad I don’t have to DIY it myself, creating the monstrosity I’ve just seen over on Chinese video platform Bilibili (check the top comment).
The mod, re-posted by FanlessTech and reported by Videocardz, is slapped on top of an RTX 4060 GPU, and according to Google’s machine translation you can message the Bilibili user for the schematic if you so wish.
Judging by a photo of the parts sitting on some scales, the heatsink weighs 2.56 kg (5.64 lbs), which makes sense considering it absolutely dwarfs the RTX 4060 PCB it’s fitted to.
You’re not looking at your usual GPU heatsink here, as these are some ginormous riveted fins that are very spread apart. The DIYer has the Frankenstein card socketed into a dinky little motherboard next to some RAM and another fanless cooler for the CPU. It makes quite the peculiar scene.