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Keeping an ATI 9550 Cool

Technikal

Junior Member
Check it out, I am doing a new build, but it is going to be my back-up build for Folding and just general use.

Now I already have the following:

Case - Bought from local PC store
Hard Drive - Maxtor 80GB ATA133 7200RPM
CD Drive - LITE-ON 24x CD+RW Drive
Video Card - ATI Radeon 9550 128MB 64-bit AGP 8x

Here is what I decided to get:

Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 ATX AMD Motherboard - $59.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128307

Patriot Signature Series 1GB (2x512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM - $86.95
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820220037

FSP Group AX450 450W Power Supply - $49.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817104954

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 939 1GHz FSB - $137
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103537

Total: $333.93

Not bad I figure. Here is what I want to do though, I plan to OC this 9550 and have it at low temperatures too. So can anyone direct me towards a cooling solution? The exact model of the card is:

VisionTek Xtasy ATI Radeon 9550 128MB 64-bit AGP 4x/8x

Core Clock: 250MHz
Memory Clock: 200MHz (400MHz Effective)
Pixel Pipes: 4
Fill Rate: 1000M Texels/Sec

Now can anyone direct me towards an aftermarket cooler? The cooling on this card is a standard heatsink, it works decently but I would like to reach some decent OC speeds. Would say some AS5 along with an aftermarket HSF do some damage?
 
The 9550 is a really rather iffy card, from what I've seen. It looks to be a crippled 9600, which was never an amazing card in the first place. (If I recall, it has a 64 bit memory bus, and the clock speeds are hardly stellar.) Considering the price of a good aftermarket cooler, you're better off just getting something a bit more powerful. (A 6600GT is ideal, but a bit pricey. A 6200 might work pretty well, though.)
 
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