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EVGA 8800GT Air Cooling Solution?

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vegettoxp

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Hello there guys, if you haven't read my other thread, I have went with EVGA 8800GT 512MB Graphic Card. It took me a long time to make my final choice, but it's finally done. Now I wanted to make sure that I also get the Air Cooling solution for my 8800GT. I was gona go with the Thermalright Cooling solution, but it looks like that there cooling doesn't fit the 8800GT (G92) Graphic Card. If I am wrong, please tell me. And if there is a Thermalright VGA Cooling Solution, Please tell me which one is it?

Now my second choice is the Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev. 2 VGA Cooler. It is 8800GT (G92) Ready. What are your guys thoughts on this Air cooling solution.

Now if anyone has the same card as my (e-GeForce 8800GT 512MB 512-P3-N801-AR), please tell me what Air Cooling solution are you running. Also if you guys have any other recommendations for the 8800GT (G92), please share them with me.

Also if you guys don't mind telling me, what the higgest OC I can do with this Card in Air Cooling and a Stable Point. I have never OC in my entire

life. I have always when afraid to do OC, but a lot of you guys told me to get the Factory Clocked Card and OC it myself. What software do I need to use to OC? Please share your thoughts?

Also I am about to order IMON Ultra-Bay for my Stacker. Is it worth the money as a Add-On for my Case? Your Thoughts? Product Link: Click Here

P.S. Fusion
 
Overclocking always depends on your particular piece of hardware. People could throw out numbers, but there are no guarantees. You'll probably want to use RivaTuner to overclock. It's a free download, just google it.
 
I have the same eVGA card OC'd in my sig.

I also have the Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev 2 with the Turbo Module (I hardwired this to run at 5v instead of the standard 12v)

At STOCK speeds with STOCK cooler, the 8800GT was running 58C idle and about 79C load.
At OVERCLOCKED speeds with Accelero S1 Rev 2 + Turbo, the 8800GT was running 39C idle and about 58C load.

YMMV wildly when overclocking as every card/CPU is different and will have different tolerances, so experiment away and see what works for you. RivaTuner is a good start. I used ATITool as well because of its artifact scanner, although in my experience it takes a long time for ATITool to spot artifacts from an unstable overclock. I found out much quicker by simply playing Oblivion and Team Fortress 2 and seeing if it crashed or not.
 
Originally posted by: DarkRogue

... although in my experience it takes a long time for ATITool to spot artifacts from an unstable overclock. I found out much quicker by simply playing Oblivion and Team Fortress 2 and seeing if it crashed or not.
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That's not exactly a good method to test stability you know... 😉

To the OP - I'm not sure why you didn't just pick up a 8800GTS and avoid having to bother with any exotic cooling solutions or struggling to achieve some insane overclock. Each type of card can be had for nearly the same price these days given the rebates out there.
 
I'm not so sure about that - ATITool took 18 hours to begin detecting artifacts. Oblivion crashed/had graphical glitches after about 10-20 minutes of playing. I'm not saying it's accurate, but in the end, the only thing that matters for a stable overclock IS the ability to play games without them crashing or glitching isn't it? 😉

As far as the 8800GTS goes, it is indeed a better card, but it's at the expense of power consumption. The GTS 512 chews up nearly 100w of power at load, vs the GT's moderate 75w. I believe I got these numbers off of an xbitlabs article.
 
I was just messing with you, note the wink smiley. Oblivion is notorious for crashing quite nicely all on it's own without being used to check for overall system stability and game crashes as a stress test application.

As for power, if a 25W difference is enough for you to notice or be concerned about for your power supply, you probably didn't have enough of a safety margin in the first place as that isn't really a significant difference when dealing with the typical wattages of modern PSU's.
 
Point taken, although FWIW Oblivion doesn't normally crash for me as I don't have to load 300+ mods like everyone else.

Power-wise, I'm absolutely certain my PSU can handle the additional 25w as I'm only pulling barely 205w at full load from the wall, not even close to maxing my 380w, although I'd imagine the 12v rail is getting pretty short on extra amperage. Nonetheless, my decision regarding the 25w difference was more of to consume less power while still achieving good performance. Lower power consumption was one of the focal points of my build and I specifically waited for the Penryns and G92 to come out. The 9600GT performs a little less than the 8800GT and that consumes another 10w less. I figured the extra 10w was worth it for the performance gained (that and the 9600GT wasn't out yet when I bought my 8800GT.) In any case, this is a derailment of the OP's topic, though oddly he hasn't responded to it yet.
 
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