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Hot damn, my ATI 9800 Pro is a cooker!

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Thegonagle

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How does the heat production of the newest generation of chips from ATI and nVidia compare to the older 9800 Pro?

I'd really like to get rid of my 9800 Pro because I'm interested in keeping things quiet. I already have a Zalman heat pipe on the thing which is cooled by the Zalman low-profile 80 mm fan at 5 volts. The problem is that it dumps so much heat into the case that my thermally-controlled PSU fan ramps up. I'm also concerned about power consumption for two reasons: first, more power from the PSU means more heat produced by the PSU, meaning the fan needs to ramp up; second, I usually leave my computer running 24/7 and I don't remember $40 electricity bills before I built this 3.0 GHz P4 with the 9800. I understand that the 90 watt 3.0 P4 is responsible for a lot of that, but I'm certain that the hot, hot, hot 9800 Pro must also be a factor.

I'm very interested in the 6600GT from nVidia, but if it's not going to be significantly cooler--and able to be passively cooled--I might as well not even bother.

Could a newer 6600GT, or something else help me in my situation?
 
If the cards are equal or better performers heat will be same or more. No chance for passive cooling if you tried you would need some fast fans anyways. Defeating the purpose to make the system quieter.
 
I read somewhere that the 9800 Pro runs at 55C at load with the stock cooling. From what I read the newest generation of cards like the 6800 can go upwards of 80C at load.
 
IIRC, an Arctic Cooling VGA silencer or ATI Silencer should do the trick nicely.... unlike the zalman with the heatsink attached to the gpu and a fan pushing out, the vga/ati silencers suck air from the *inside* of the computer, pass it through the heatsink which warms the air, and pushes it out of the case. I heard they're really good - read some reviews on the net (ex: silentpcreview)! Good luck!
 
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