Well for the mod it is not that fancy :D since I took off the plastic covering the heatsink and since the heatsink is not equally flat the air pressure is lost on both side and I can only cool the middle region
the following is the image
http://s8.postimg.org/8obgnczxx/vgamod.jpg
the fan is only 0.12A I need at least a 0.32 A 12VDC and I will be checking damaged cards for a compatible heatsink+fan that fits
as for the processor I have the Thermaltake TMi1 cooler I can overclock it but it is not worth it since it increases the memory bus speed and my DDR3 memory is only 1333MHz and cannot be overclocked.
the vga is stable at 82C but does not support that much of a load. I've seen people using the GTX770 with the Q9950 and still getting a great result.
I will be aiming for a gtx750ti the one from pcandparts about 182$ I also got an offer for a gt740 4g ddr5 at 90$ which is also very good and I can save about 110$
It's been so long that I bought a radeon card I have a 120hz ready monitor and the nvidia version 1 infrared 3d kit and glasses It would be waste to switch :/
and I am also interested in using the cuda cores on the nvidia cards for development and programing
I will check for spare heatsinks or fans whichever fixes the issue until I sell my fpga dev board and change the nvidia card to a better gen or for something I can keep now and still use with the upgrade
as for the 5th generation I did not go into details for ddr4 compatibility but having a 15mb cache with 6 cores at about 360$ is great I'm only keeping this processor the "Q9950" as it have 12mb cache