I'm building in an SKTC A07. I dropped my 5060 solo, and the fan broke. So I was experimenting with deshroud. Now mind you I wasn't very scientific about this because I do not have the time to these days and just wanted it to work. But zip tying the fan to the GPU seemed to make it go up to 80 degrees in 3DMark Steel Nomad, so it wasn't looking too great. Doing some research I realized that the shroud helps a lot with temps.
So as any sensible human would do, I decided to do some fan surgery. I was originally planning to do this with a noctua slim fan but I wanted to do a test run with a cheap thermalright one first (I did a fan swap for my cpu cooler with the noctua one already so that's why I had this one for spare). I took a dremel and chopped off the corners, then grinded down the sides. I was originally planning to have a full circle going around the fan but that proved to be too difficult to trim down to size, so I just chopped off the excess and grinded down the remainder. In the process I accidentally chopped off one of the wires for the fan (see second pic) so it only runs at full speed now lol. But it fits! I was thinking that this fan was slightly larger than the stock fan so I would see better temps, right?
Yes! I saw temps go down to an amazing... 70 degrees. Even with the fan locked at max speed, there was like no difference at all. My stock fan got around those temps too, so was very much not worth the ~2 hours it took me to mutilate this poor fan. The fan is also held in by friction, hopes and prayers because there's no real way to stick this in except maybe tape or glue, which I wasn't going to bother with.
Overall, 0/10. Would not recommend. I ended up just buying another one and returning the broken one. Just sucks because I got the first one for 300 and this second one cost me like 350.
Managed to undervolt the new one to 850 mV and it only gets to 61 degrees in 3DMark Steel Nomad, and when running the stress test it only goes up to 69 degrees. Pretty happy with the results. Anyways, safe to say I did not go through with the mutilation of the Noctua fan, I just returned it.
TLDR: Dropped & broke my 5060 solo's fan, tried a deshroud and fitting a fan into the shroud which gave the same performance as the stock fan. Don't bother with doing any deshroud-related mods, it's not worth it.
