Best gpu cooler for speed?

[Pilsnerpete]

Any ideas on the best cooler for a 9700 pro? I've seen the Zalman's, but are those the best for high speeds?

:beerete

 

[screw3d]

Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer.

 

[Insane3D]

How about this?

Speed and quiet (no fan)...

 

[Pilsnerpete]

Is that a Swiftech you glued on there? Nice work! Arctic S. epoxy or something less permanent?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: screw3d
Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer.

 

[Pilsnerpete]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: screw3d
Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer.

Only thing about that one is the fan. I had an Enermax slot fan quite like that...it failed within 6 months. Is this fan better?

Sweet! A review! Just a few days old, too.

 

[McArra]

Giant III for performance, even looks are not that good and the blower is useless

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: Pilsnerpete
Is that a Swiftech you glued on there? Nice work! Arctic S. epoxy or something less permanent?

Swifty clone...extremely light and tons of surface area. I used AS Epoxy to attach it....did the same thing to my 9800 Pro, except for a 60 x 15mm fan, similar to the one on the Taisol HSF's, run off a Sunbeam rheobus.

The HS is uber cheap too....$5 here.

:beer:

I love the HS...so much so it's on the NB of my NF7-S and my IS7 too.

 

[chilled]

Originally posted by: McArra
Giant III for performance, even looks are not that good and the blower is useless

Definately for low noise (with fans off though!)

The Giant II (single heatpipe compared with III's dual) runs my 9800 Pro fanless

 

[takuma683]

Taking a ride on this topic, but with ages older hardware... I've also been looking to replace the cooling on my Riva TNT2, its default clocks are 125/143 MHz but sometimes I'm getting some graphics corruption (I believe it's one of those stock-overclocked cards). It has a small, fanless heatsink on top of the GPU and no RAM cooling. I think I need a little more than that to run it on those clocks... could anyone please recommend something efficient and not too expensive? (I'm not cooling a GeForce FX, Radeon or anything... if it's pricey I might as well get a newer card - if I ever had the money, that is.)

 

[Pilsnerpete]

I see 3 options for you, takuma.

1. 1. Just put a fan on the heatsink. Simplest and cheapest.
   
   2. If you want to oc a little, clean the goo off the bottom of the heatsink and apply AS3 or equivalent. Replace heatsink and small fan.
   
   3. You could get the heatsink Insane3d linked to and apply AS epoxy for the most maximum oc ever on that card.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i wish they would make better gpu coolers
i don't like any of the ones i've seen to date

they need some kind of finned copper heatsink with a nice finish that can fit a high power 40mm 60mm of even 80mm fan on it

like a smaller version of cpu heatsinks we see today

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
i wish they would make better gpu coolers
i don't like any of the ones i've seen to date

they need some kind of finned copper heatsink with a nice finish that can fit a high power 40mm 60mm of even 80mm fan on it

like a smaller version of cpu heatsinks we see today

Check out the $5 swifty clone I put on the 9700 NP...and my 9800 Pro. I paired the one on the 9800 Pro with this fan. I just hooked it up to my Sunbeam rheobus so I can dial it down when I'm not gaming, and crank it when I am. There is no reason you couldn't put on of those Delta 60mm's on there if you wanted too.

 

[dqniel]

I'm pretty sure you can put an mcx-159 northbridge cooler on a 9700s gpu...that should cool nicely. I haven't tried it though. If you wanna try something crazy and make your own, then try this: HSF for GPU
Pics are down, not sure if they'll be back up . Great guide though, Moe Lester is the man and this gives great cooling.

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: dqniel
I'm pretty sure you can put an mcx-159 northbridge cooler on a 9700s gpu...that should cool nicely. I haven't tried it though. If you wanna try something crazy and make your own, then try this: HSF for GPU
Pics are down, not sure if they'll be back up . Great guide though, Moe Lester is the man and this gives great cooling.

Those NB coolers that are like $40??? Pass....

 

[dqniel]

meh, he said "the best." The custom-made ones would be free and the best performance if you have a stock amd sink laying around and confidence in your modding skills, so I'd go for that

 

[JBT]

I put on my old 1.4 T-Bred's cooler with a 60x25 mm delta on it I have it hooked up to my fan controler so its quiet though hehe this is for my 9500 pro btw It works pretty well. The card is volatage limited though. can run at 350/297 more than that and the ram dies stupid infinion...

 

[dqniel]

I benched my 9500np at 420/334 with stock cooling. It has infineon 3.0ns chips. I got lucky though :-\. It has a switchable vmod installed by I'm not gonna activate it until I get better cooling for the gpu. Apparently the previous owner of this card got 500+ core and around 360 memory with the core/ram vmod activated and a water-cooled pelt on the gpu. Highest 9500np 3dmark2k1 on an AMD system (without softmod) in the world. Now I just need to do it for myself

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: Insane3D

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
i wish they would make better gpu coolers
i don't like any of the ones i've seen to date

they need some kind of finned copper heatsink with a nice finish that can fit a high power 40mm 60mm of even 80mm fan on it

like a smaller version of cpu heatsinks we see today

Check out the $5 swifty clone I put on the 9700 NP...and my 9800 Pro. I paired the one on the 9800 Pro with this fan. I just hooked it up to my Sunbeam rheobus so I can dial it down when I'm not gaming, and crank it when I am. There is no reason you couldn't put on of those Delta 60mm's on there if you wanted too.

wow yeah that is a pretty nice setup

 

[dqniel]

Agreed, that is tempting to try on my 9500np after I get my 9800pro. I want to try to attach it better though so I don't have to worry about it falling off (frying it while in use.)