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Best 80mm ti4600 cooling solution?

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isaacmacdonald

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My ti4600 runs hot as hell. It's pissing me off because it's easily the hottest and noiseiest component in my case. The memory heats up a lot, and the reverse side of the card, where the GPU is located, is scalding hot. I'm certain this is what's rasing my case temps. Anyway, is there any cooler that sinks both sides of the GPU as well as the ram, and allows me to use a quiet 80mm cooler? I was contemplating the zalman hp80 (or whatever it's called) but it looks like it sinks the GPU exclusively.

Also, would undervolting the AGP slot reduce the heat by much? There's a lot of overhead for overclocking so I assume that I should be able to run stable at a lower voltage (in the same way that my 2.53 will run reliably @ 1.2 instead of 1.5vcore), but I don't know if it's really comparable to my cpu.

Suggestions?
 
Couple of things. My VisionTek GF4 Ti4600 was the quietest actively cooled video card I've ever owned. The GF4 cards that used the reference nV design were extremely quiet. What card do you have?

Adding extra cooling will not change your case temps. The power the card uses, and heat that power dissipates does not change. If you want the card to use less power and produce less heat, you can underclock it. Maybe run it underclocked for desktop and put it up to normal speed for games?

I just put a Zalman ZM80A-HP on my 9700 Pro (which had an very noisy fan). So far, so good. I like it. Completely silent. It does take up PCI 1 and is pretty heavy. The noise reduction is well worth it.
 
I have a reference card. It doesn't seem quiet to me, but I'm rapidly becoming a bit of a quiet freak. I think case temps will decrease if I can dissipate the heat from the localized areas it's in now (minimal airflow between the northbridge and back of the card) to the more active airflow areas near my 80mm exhaust fan. I don't really want to underclock it just undervolt it, but it seems like my MB only supports overvolting. Oh well. I guess I might try the zalman-
 
i have been using the zalman along with arctic silver 3 on my geforce 4. so far i love it. it dissipates heat very well and keeps the card cool and best of all it's absolutely quiet. zalman
 
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