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graphics card coolers?

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NuAGe

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I was wondering if anyone knew of any quality gpu coolers that would fit on a geforce 4 ti card. i wanted to upgrade the small fan to something a bit more powerful. i havent found many quality reviews on good gfx card coolers so i just wanna know what u guys think. i was looking at the new zalman cooler that uses heatpink technology. if anyone can help me out id appreciate it. thx
 
forget about fan coolers!!!! its all about THIS!!!!! you cant go wrong!! just remember there are 2 versions of these e.g: Zalman ZM50-HP(for g4 mx and radeon 7500) and ZM80-HP (g4 ti and the radeon 9700). the only downside is that once installed its installed forever unless you find a way of taking it off without breaking anything.
 
Originally posted by: Shrooms420
forget about fan coolers!!!! its all about THIS!!!!! you cant go wrong!! just remember there are 2 versions of these e.g: Zalman ZM50-HP(for g4 mx and radeon 7500) and ZM80-HP (g4 ti and the radeon 9700). the only downside is that once installed its installed forever unless you find a way of taking it off without breaking anything.
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What about the memory?
 
You could get a U1 server heatsink and mod it for your card. That would be the best cooling solution you can find.

The only "quality" gpu cooler is the one you make yourself.

see it here
 
This with a Gamma28 blowing over it. It is a PITA to install, but works great, and while it required me to add to the mounting part of it (it didn't go out to the 2 holes the original cooler was using), it didn't require any adverse modding for the card, and in the future I'll be adding RAMsinks (there's enough airflow in my case that passive cooling is plenty. If I weren't OCing the card, I woulnd't have a fan on the chip)
 
There's actually a Zalman 80-HP and 80A-HP. I'm not sure of the exact differences but the 80-HP did not fit all cards because of its size. The 80A-HP takes this into accout and has resized edges so that it will work with all GPU cards that have the heatsink mounting holes. The performance is excellent, and at $39 you'd better expect it to work well. The only prob is that it weighs 385g. I guess that's the price to pay for noiselss heat dissipation.
 
thanks guys im gonna check out some of ur suggestions...im leaning toward the heatpipe zalman but i might just go diy and make one from a U1 heatsink.
 
GPU fans and heatsinks aren't the only options. There's also the The Card Cooler, which got a KickAss award from MaxPC in the special Winter edition. Dual ball-bearing 80mm Sunon fans running at 2800 RPM, and it cools both sides of the card, since it mounts perpendicular.

There's an added benefit to using this over the GPU fans: temperatures for core, heatsink and RAM all drop. From MaxPC:
The core temperature plummeted from 141 to 111 degrees. Yikes! Both the heatsink and RAM dropped to 97 degrees - that's a 44 degree drop in RAM temperature!
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On the positive side, it's great for overclockers and it's only $20. On the negative side, it's kinda loud (yer adding two new case fans)

Simple to install: just take off the card screws in the first and third positions, so it also cools the card in the first PCI slot.
 
Because the XT won't fit in very many cases, and we don't know what kind of case and PSU configuration that NuAGe has. And it's 300 RPM slower...but it's an alternative if the case can do it.
 
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