Has anyone attempt to fit GTX HSF on XTX?

[lopri]

I've been quite satisfied with 1950XTX (except the official driver support) so far. Contrast to my prior expectation, this thing pushes pixels like there is no tomorrow while I don't see a drastic image quality improvement. (I blame my eyesight) Basically it's handling everything I play @max quality / 1650x1080 / 4AA / 8AF, which my GTX couldn't. I used to run 1920x1200 with SLI setup but we're talking about 1 GPU vs 2 GPUs.

One thing I'm still not totally happy with is the temperature. Regardless of the sexy HSF, it reaches up to 75~80C after heavy gaming. This is still somewhat high for my liking and limits my OC. (I'd like to have nice and even 1100MHz for memory, not 1065 or 1072 nonsense!)

So I was thinking I'd buy a 7900GTO for my brother who recently got a 21" monitor and swap the HSF. I have a spare Zalman 700 and I know it'll fit on GTO. Will the GTO/GTX cooler with on 1950XTX?

 

[tersome]

You're talking about two different gpus. The GTX cooler would probably be on par with the x1950xtx cooler at best.

Also, placement of memory, voltage regulators etc would make it impossible.

 

[darkswordsman17]

The X1950XTs stock cooler is going to be better than a GTX HSF. Those temps aren't bad anyways. I doubt you'd get too much better of an OC out of your card even if the temps were lower, unless it was very significantly lower (as in load at 50C), which you'd likely only be able to get with water cooling.

Maybe try putting a fan that blows air right towards the card so that it has a better flow of fresh air.

 

[lopri]

I think I can get a higher OC in that my OC is heat-limited. (artifacts) I could run the mems @1100MHz if I didn't mind artifacts. But I somehow thought the GTX cooler would be better than the XTX cooler. If that's not the case, then no GTO for my brother, I guess.