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Geforce 3 ti500, better cooling help

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kyle1745

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I just bought a Gainward TI 200 geforce 3 with 128mb ram, and I am looking to overclock it to around a ti500 with air. I can get the memory to about 480 with the stock ram sinks, but thore core speed is not budging. So I need some advice about what to repalce the ramsinks and the GPU HSF with. Crystal orb doesn't look like much more than what is already on the card. I'm not really interested in water right now, so whats good guys?


GPU HSF?
Ramsinks?

And where can I get em?

Thanks,
Kyle
 
What speed can you get the GPU to now? I hope you can get it above stock speed. If you can't, you aren't getting to ti500 levels period....
 
Well the GPU is at the defualt 200, it will work at like 230, but there are artifacts. Arround 240 it will blue screen XP. I need to do more testing, but I think I am going to pull off the HFS on the GPU and put a nice new coating of arctic silver on it.

Kyle
 
First of all, any ideas on how high your GPU temps are??? 230mhz is not a bad oc for a ti200. Besides, does your HS gets hot when you are running games or something? If so, a better fan would do the job. If it doesn't get hot, then you need a better heat transmission between the GPU and HS, and AS3 could really help.

A problem I found on GF3 chips is that they have some sort of cavity that makes it almos impossible to get a full contact with the HS, filling the cavity with thermal paste could be really helpful.

My G3 ti200 makes 235/530 with a socket 7 HS, AS2 and a 60mm fan on it. With stock cooling it would hit 210/500. I sacrifice 2 PCIs to do that....

In case you are removing anything glued to the card I'd recommend to remove it after some 3d gaming, when it's hot the glue loosens.
 
I don't think the stock HSF does crap. I have removed it (it was covered in normal heat sink compound) cleaned it off then put on some Arctic Silver. Well that was a waste of time, no luck.

I might order a Cooljag tonight.
It is hot (at least on the back of the board), I do not have a means to get an actual temp at this time.

Not sure if it is worth the time and or $$ to even mess with it anymore. Not going to be that much speed difference consifering that it does not look like I am going to pull that much more out of this card. Kind of a let down, but still a great card.

It runs fine at 200/450, and 200/480, but there is not a speed difference in the second. I get artifacts if I run it at 210, but it will not give me a blue screen until 240. Thats what leads me to believe it is cooling.

I would really like to get 230/480 out of this card.

Ideas? anyone?

Kyle

 
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