Geforce 3 cooling

[TSGrayson]

Hey, besides water cooling, whats the best Geforce3 coling out there for my V8200?

 

[jcovercash]

You could try a Blue Orb. (wouldn't let me link directly.)

I have one on my GeForce II MX and it worked wonders.

 

[salman327]

blue orb, or you could try a millisec copper mini heatsink designed for gpu's. It's over at millisec, and the complete set comes w/a small heatsink for your gpu, a fan for the heatsink, and a few ramsinks. I've heard it works really well, and isn't too big or heavy. It's at www.millisec.com

 

[Marine]

Linkified

 

[Sorgon2]

The Asus V8200 already has a chipset cooler and heatsinks covering the ram chips and from what I have read and seen, it is a pretty darn good setup. You could take the setup off, but that wouldn't be suggested. The only other thing you could do is set a fan close to the card for more cooling. You could get one of these that can be placed to blow air down at your slots. Or you could buy one of these that goes in a slot. It can be setup to pull hot air away from your video card and right out the back of the computer. As for water cooling a video, I haven't seen to many of those around. Good Luck!

 

[V]

I would get the 2cooltek copper video card heatsink instead of the blueorb.

2cooltek

 

[TSGrayson]

Thanks for all your help!!

 

[Insane3D]

I have found the aluminum 55mm Alpha HS outperforms the copper ones. I use these in conjuction with a 50mm, 20CFM Top Motor fan.

Link

 

[salman327]

oh, well then I guess go w/ that aluminum one. I know aluminum gives heat off faster than Copper, but I thought copper absorbed heat faster than aluminum.

 

[TSGrayson]

Is it worth it watercool?

 

[Insane3D]

"I know aluminum gives heat off faster than Copper, but I thought copper absorbed heat faster than aluminum."

You are correct. The reason the aluminum one is a better choice when cooling a graphics card GPU is more becuase of the small size. Let me clarify. Copper will absorb heat faster, but it needs more airflow over the surface to counteract the bad "shedding" qualities of a copper HSF and remove the heat. When using a copper HSF on say a CPU, much higher CFM fans can be used like the Delta or even larger 80mm fans to more effectively remove the heat from the HS. In a application like a graphics card, the highest CFM you can really have right on the GPU (not considering a card cooler) is maybe ~10-15CFM, or with the fastest 50mm fan they make, 20CFM. This is just not enough airflow to effectively cool those copper HSF's. Also, the design of the copper heatsinks is not the best, and you can tell they are cheaply made. The Alpha with it's pin style design has much more surface area, and it's even larger than those copper ones. If you ever get a chance to look at the fin design on one of the copper coolers, you will see what I mean..

 

[salman327]

Everytime I come to these forums I learn something new. Chemistry? School? Who needs it, I got forums.anandtech.com

Thanks Insane for clearing that up for me, I appreciate it

 

[Insane3D]

No problem...I've been here awhile and I still learn new things everyday...