Cooling for my Noisy Woot MSI 7900GS ?

[sky2002]

I have the green PCB MSI 7900GS from Woot.com
The cooling fan is very very noisy.
I have been searching for an aftermarket cooling that has low noise level while keeping the card sufficiently cool.

I have been looking along the line of NV silencer, but I am not sure if I should get
1. NV silencer 5 rev 3
2. NV silencer 6 rev 2
3. Accelero X1


Please advise before I spend money to get one that will not work.

Thanks for your help.

 

[fredhe12]

I had that card for a while and yeah, it was noisy. I actually RMA'ed that card with Woot after serious artifact issues that are quite common with that card. The EVGA 7900GS I replaced it with is considerably quieter with the stock cooling.

Sorry, I know that didn't answer your question. But you should be aware of the problems with this Woot card. Do a search on their site and you'll see that it's been a big problem.

 

[WT]

I have an MSI Woot card as well, and my card initially would not run the Deep Freeze 3Dmark06 test cleanly. I've added the Zalman VF900 VGA cooler and that cooler and card are an absolute BEAST together. In addition to the cooler, I voltmodded it from 1.2 to 1.4v and I've never had any graphical glitches or lockups since then. Playing Oblivion and CoH on that PC as well. The MSI cards were clocked higher than a standard OEM card so between the voltmod and the better cooling they run much better, assuming you have a good card to start with.

I'm tempted to get another one and SLI it just for kicks ...

Edit: Added link - Zalman VF900

 

[sisq0kidd]

I had an old VF700-ALCU laying around and it fit perfectly.

Newegg Link

I believe it uses a standard 7xxx series layout for heatsinks.

 

[Laminator]

Maybe you can hijack a truck full of Zalman products to fit your stolen 7900GS, ha ha.

Anyways, I had a VF900-Cu on my 7900GT and not only was it incredibly silent, its cooling performance was incredible (with the core overclocked to 650MHz, it was 61 degrees fully loaded at room temperature) and effectively removed any sort of temperature barrier on the GPU core. It might be a little expensive at $40 shipped, though. The VF700-Cu is also effective; the VF700-AlCu has worse cooling performance but should still be adequate for your 7900GS.

EDIT: I don't know much about the Silencer series but Arctic Cooling puts out pretty good products and I've heard good things about the Silencers, if that's of any help.