I knew these ungodly loud case fans would pay off.

zylander

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Before, I was running a single slot PCI slot fan which was on its way out, a vf-700cu and four cheapo 80mm case fans. Now Im running a dual slot PCI slot fan, still the vf-700cu and I replaced two of the cheap case fans with two much faster fans. Its pretyt loud, I cant sleep with it going, but the air flow is pretty nice.

My 7900gt is OCed to 700/810, I havent tried to go higher, but I might now. Before it was idleing at about 55C and under load it would up get above 80C. Now, idle is 51C and under load 71C. I had two windows of rthdribl open; one full screen on my 19" and about a third of a screen on my 24". The noise kind of bothered me at first, but its worth it now :D. CPU temp went way down too, under load it use to hit about 53C, now it hovers at 46C. Pretty good, but next stop, water cooling. :)
 

WaTaGuMp

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Originally posted by: zylander
Before, I was running a single slot PCI slot fan which was on its way out, a vf-700cu and four cheapo 80mm case fans. Now Im running a dual slot PCI slot fan, still the vf-700cu and I replaced two of the cheap case fans with two much faster fans. Its pretyt loud, I cant sleep with it going, but the air flow is pretty nice.

My 7900gt is OCed to 700/810, I havent tried to go higher, but I might now. Before it was idleing at about 55C and under load it would up get above 80C. Now, idle is 51C and under load 71C. I had two windows of rthdribl open; one full screen on my 19" and about a third of a screen on my 24". The noise kind of bothered me at first, but its worth it now :D. CPU temp went way down too, under load it use to hit about 53C, now it hovers at 46C. Pretty good, but next stop, water cooling. :)

WHAT? I cant hear you over your fans.