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After market fans for Nvidia 8800 GT

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shropshireinc

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I recently purchased an eVGA 8800GT video card. After reading how the card gets hot I decided to use Rivatuner to control the temps on the card. According to Rivatuner the fan on the card is already running 100% while the default speed is 29% idle or under load according to the forum. The temperature is 58 or 59 C idle. Would installing an after market fan such as Thermaltake's Duo Orb reduce the temps on the card? Since I have never done this before would it be easier or harder than building a new pc? Any advice is surely welcome. Thank you.
 
Yes, adding an after-market fan will help reduce temps. However, I'm pretty happy running my 8800GT's stock fan at 65% and getting temps of 45 at idle and 68 at load.
 
Either my cable management is not up to par or there isn't enough cooling in my case but your card seems to be running cooler than mine. Are you running Rivatuner or some other program that can control your fan Captain Caveman?
 
My case has very good ventilation. I'm running an Antec P180 with four 120mm fans and a slot fan cooler to help blow out hot air around the video card.
 
It is pretty easy to install. The only hard part is the ram heatsinks, because you need a good way to get them to stick on. I am debating using thermal tape or epoxy.
 
I just upgraded my BFG 8800GTOC's stock hsf to the VF1000. I decided not to use the Zalman blue aluminum bga ramsinks and instead opted for the Thermaltake CL-C0025 copper ramsinks. The Sekisui #5760 thermal tape on the ramsinks sticks really well. I used 8 for the memory and 4 on the small vrm clusters. I also put a thin layer of AS5 on the gpu core. Using the fan mate to adjust the fan to where the blue light just starts to turn bright, which is maybe 1/8th of a turn from the lowest setting, it's quieter than the Antec Tricool's in my P182 which are on low (<25dB). I also have an Arctic Cooling 120mm fan in the top front HDD cage. The good news is that my idle temps went from 61C with the stock cooler to 48C, and the full load temps dropped from 108C to 66C @ 700/1753/950.

Zalman VF1000 review @ SPCR
 
I did mine for the first time. It isn't hard to do. Buy a cooler with ramsinks that stick on well. The Thermalright V2 has very good thermal tape on the ramsinks, but it doesn't come with mosfet sinks. Most coolers don't come with them.

So today I had to remove my card again and install some Swiftech Mosfet sinks. There weren't enough so I had to cut them with a jigsaw, file the edges off and repaint them black. And of course the tape on them is terrible so I had to mix up some Artic Alumina to paste them on. Only took 5 hours with drying time. LOL

Either the Duorb or the Zalman 1000 has mosfet sinks I believe. Ask around as that would be the easier option.

Does the Zalman have mosfet/vreg sinks John? The Thermaltake sinks have the Sekisui tape or did you buy that separately?
 
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