9800pro owners:

[mettleh3d]

I pulled all my fans except the CPU n GPU and it still has a high whirring noise. i never thot it was the video because, well, i dono. I stopped the 9800's fan with my fan and BAM. silence. well, near silence.

the 9800pro is the only thing keeping my system from near silence. =/
i dont wanna spedn money to fix it. not worth it.

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: mettleh3d
I pulled all my fans except the CPU n GPU and it still has a high whirring noise. i never thot it was the video because, well, i dono. I stopped the 9800's fan with my fan and BAM. silence. well, near silence.

the 9800pro is the only thing keeping my system from near silence. =/
i dont wanna spedn money to fix it. not worth it.

Personally, I never noticed any audible difference between my Sapphire stock cooling and the Zalman VF70-0 Cu.

Perhaps the stock fan is dieing.

 

[Algere]

Yes [9800 NP], to topic summary question.

 

[mettleh3d]

So why did you switch to zalman? did you OC ur card?

 

[foofoo]

hi,
this cooler is actually very quiet and easy to install
plus it's only $15
http://www.svc.com/vga-rev3.html
there are a lot of threads on it. search for arctic cooling.
good luck

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: foofoo
hi,
this cooler is actually very quiet and easy to install
plus it's only $15
http://www.svc.com/vga-rev3.html
there are a lot of threads on it. search for arctic cooling.
good luck

Got the same one - quite nice, and very quiet. They've got more specialized versions, but they're longer. I had tried the the ATI Silencer 1 Rev 2, which is 21.5cm long. The VGA Silencer rev3 is only 18.5cm. The ATI Silencer 1 didn't fit in my Antec SLK3700AMB case, which has 5 HDD's in it - the ATI Silencer hit the hard drive. Modding it wouldn't have helped either, not without slicing up the fan blades. I wound up selling it and getting the VGA Silencer.

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: mettleh3d
So why did you switch to zalman? did you OC ur card?

Stock cooling was starting to run really hot. I want this 9800P to last me at least 8 months so I figured the Zalman would keep it from consuming itself.

 

[Woofmeister]

Yes, the 9800Pro was the loudest thing in my old system.

 

[Arcanedeath]

9800 pro prior to my rev3 VGA silencer was the loudest thing in my old system.

 

[mettleh3d]

ic thanks

 

[effee]

the 20 hamsters powering it are.

but the 9800 pro comes close

 

[vamirr]

First thing I did was remove the small fan and point a quiet 80mm fan at the stock heatsink. Very cool and quiet now. Nothing but hate for small fans. =)