Fanless vid card that covers the ram?

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rogor

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By covers I mean actually touching the ram. Manufacturers seem to have trouble grasping this concept and produce fanless vid cards which only cool the GPU and leave the ram to fend for itself.

I'm willing to pay a premium for the silence and the ram cooling, I just don't know if such a thing exists.


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-don't need dx10

-would like at least 1gz ram

-must be Nvidia

- I have plenty of room in my case
 
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rogor

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Yes for gaming. Games are CSS, FEAR. Sorry should have been more specific. I also need Nvidia only. ATI doesn't run 1600x1024.

Also don't need dx10.

I would have already bought the 8600GTS but the HS does not cool the ram. This is from one of the reviews on newegg:

"The huge heat sink doesn't come in contact with the RAM, so the 2Ghz RAM gets to cook."

The x1950 HS doesn't touch the ram either.

The 7950 looks like it _might_ but I'm not sure.
 
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rogor

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Thanks but those heatsinks wouldn't be connected to the heatpipe/heatsink system that's on the card so I'd be back to the same situation as I'll describe below:

I had a 6800GT that installed an aftermarket Thermaltake "Schooner" on, and it worked fine for a few months running FEAR almost maxed at 1600x1024 and same for CSS and Doom3. I was even able to leave the stock ram heatsink in place.

Today it died and the artifacts look like a ram failure. The core never got close to being too hot. I've been gaming more lately so I assume that pushed the ram over the edge. My case cooling is fine. I even had a quiet fan blowing on the HS from underneath.
 
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I have the fanless XFX 7950GT Extreme (the one with the heatpipe and big fins on the back). It's the 512MB version and I got it from Newegg. It's very cool. When it's under load the highest temp. readings I get with NTune and Everest is ~ 49C. Very cool card.
 
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yacoub

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Originally posted by: rogor
By covers I mean actually touching the ram. Manufacturers seem to have trouble grasping this concept and produce fanless vid cards which only cool the GPU and leave the ram to fend for itself.
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Yeah I REALLY don't understand why that trend has reversed itself. A couple years ago all the GPUs with specialized cooling at least had little RAM heatsinks, and the better ones actually had copper coolers that reached out to cover the RAM (I think also the eVGA 7900GT KO model N584 was the first 7900GT to do that properly - even their earlier N581 model didn't). Mine is the N584 specifically because it DOES cover the RAM also which can only improve survivability (and overclocking if that's your thing).

Now we're seeing a reversal of that where the RAM is left uncovered again. I don't get that either.
 
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M0RPH

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Originally posted by: tuteja1986
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814125063 >> all round gaming GPU with DX10 support : ) highly recommended

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814131052 >> best silent gaming GPU with awesome temp but lacks DX10 support

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814150220 >> Uber GPU with excellent DX9 performance but lack DX10 support and gets too hot
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Can you tell me which card you were referring to in the 2nd link, because the link no longer works. Thanks.
 
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Originally posted by: rogor
One of the reviewers of the XFX 7950GT said the HS does not touch the ram.
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Yes, the heatsink does touch the RAM. I had this card for a little while. Now I have a 7950GT KO Superclocked with a Thermalright HR-03 which comes with little Ram-sinks.
 
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