LIST OF COOLERS THAT WORK FOR 8800GT

[LOUISSSSS]

probably going to replace the cooler on my 8800gt if its gets too warm (70c+)

can someone give me a list of coolers that are compatible with the 8800gt?

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
probably going to replace the cooler on my 8800gt if its gets too warm (70c+)

can someone give me a list of coolers that are compatible with the 8800gt?

If it gets too warm? Well...got some news for you. On my new EVGA 8800GT SC, temps hit 100C last night while playing Hellgate: London. :shocked:

I've never seen a temp that high in a computer part before. They REALLY, SO REALLY should've went w/a dual-slot cooler that exhausted to the outside of the case!

At 100C, there were no on-screen anamolies, no crashes or weird behavior. Immediately upon exiting the game, temps dropped roughly 2-3C every few seconds.

With an ambient room temp of 23C, my card idles at 62C. My case temp is 38C.

I have another case fan on order; I'm going to need it!

That all has nothing to do w/your post..but thought you'd like to know.

 

[SparkyJJO]

HR03 GT

 

[John]

I guess I'm not alone in the wicked temp department. My BFG 8800GTOC idles @ 61C and load is ~108C with the fan @ 45% in RivaTuner. I suppose the low speed 120mm fans in my P182 aren't helping the airflow either. I just ordered a Zalman VF1000 and some additional copper thermaltake ramsinks from Directron for the vrm's.

 

[MichaelD]

Heh, low speed fans seem to be a contributing culprit here. The fans set to LOW in my P180 don't help either!

There is most definitely airflow thru the case; holding my hand in front of the front bezel, I can easily feel the air being pulled thru.

However, I've ordered another 120mm, 3-speed Antec for the front bezel to get some more air inside...can't hurt.

What were they thinking when they went w/a single-slot cooler for this card? They've been very successful with the dual-slot configurations on everything else.

 

[Elfear]

Accelero S1 works very well and is cheap to boot. I just slapped one on a couple nights ago with a couple of 120mm fans and my card loads at 47-50C at 775/1890/2000. Excellent cooler IMO.

 

[JSK07]

I'm considering the Accelero S1 for my card as well. But I have been hoping to find a decent cooler that will exhaust the hot air out of the case.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I notice the GT's are clocked above 600 Mhz for the GPU core.

My GTS is stock-clocked at 550, and I'm running it at 580 with a 900 Mhz (1,800 DDR) memory clock.

I'm using the HR-03-Plus with an 80x15mm fan -- but it's also ducted with air being sucked from the HR-03 fins by a 120x38mm rear-exhaust fan. The 80mm pushes air from the GPU-component side of the board blowing directly on the GPU's heatsink and the heatpipe "hot ends," while the 120mm fan pulls air from the opposite (top) side of the VGA and from narrow apertures near the edge of the motherboard.

Running "heat-up" mode in the ATITool "3D View" mode, the "GPU_Diode" temperature goes up to about 63C with a 74F room-ambient. That corresponds to a "GPU" temperature of 55C.

For control purposes, I measured my stock-cooler temperatures with S&M's vga-heat-up sequence and an hour of gaming, respectively, and the "GPU" temperature would post as 70+C at 75F room-ambient. Temperatures were measured with Everest or nTune[ nvidia monitor], as those coming from S&M are known to be skewed.

My ducted HR-03 only trumps the unducted Zalman VF-1000 by 4C degrees using a very similar eVGA 8800 GTS model -- at similar stock settings (48C-load for mine; 52C-load for the Zalman). So I'm guessing that some airflow enhancements to the Zalman might reap at least a few-degrees-C in improvement, also.

So for reasons related to potential PCI-E or PCI slot interference, I would pick the Zalman VF-1000 as an alternative to the HR-03-Plus -- as needed. The biggest problem with the HR-03 is the size of the fins and case-volume and slot-clearance consumed by them; the biggest advantage of the HR-03 is that the fins can be deployed in two different orientations on either side of the VGA card.

But given the measurements I quoted here, either of the two coolers provides the near-equivalent advantage in thermal resistance and therefore cooling.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

can anyone confirm if the zalman vf-1000 will work with the 8800gt?

can't really install the hr-03 gt since it takes up too many slots, i have a sound card above my card (think lian li v1000 case) only have up to 2 slots for cooling

the vf-1000 uses 1 extra slot on top of the card + 1 more to give it enough clearance under the sound card for some air movement.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
can anyone confirm if the zalman vf-1000 will work with the 8800gt?

Courtesy of swtethan :camera:

 

[Cookie Monster]

Zalman vf1000/900/700 will all work with the 8800GT.
Thermalright HR-03GT, V2 ultra
Thermaltake ND1 (i think, needs a bit of modding)
AC Accelro S1

Thats about it i think.

 

[John]

FWIW use the 5th hole on the VF1000 when you attach the standoffs. I used a thin layer of AS5 on the gpu core, and I put a total of 4 extra thermaltake copper bga coolers on the small vrm clusters. Using the fan mate to adjust the fan to where the blue light just starts to turn bright, which is maybe 1/8th of a turn from the lowest setting, it's as quiet as my Antec Tricool's on low which is <25dB. My idle temps went from 61C with the stock cooler to 46C, and the full load temps dropped from 108C to 66C @ 700/1753/950.

Any idea why ATITool .27 b2 crashes with an error every time I close it? <edit>.26 works fine</edit>

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Just for the record --

Somewhere on these forums within the last several days I posted a comparison summary of my 8800 GTS 640MB BFG card using HR-03-Plus with 80x15mm fans and ducting -- against a review for a similar eVGA card and the Zalman VF-1000.

I said that nVidia Monitor reports the "GPU" temperature as opposed toi the (7C hotter) "GPU_Diode." I was mistaken. nVidia reports the diode temperature.

For the comparison, my rig was neck-and-neck with the Zalman cooler. At one time, I thought it beat the Zalman by 2C, but I'm not entirely sure now.

I notice that both RivaTuner and ATITool allow for "fan profiles" and the changing of fan speed according to a custom setting in a profile to meet over-clocking needs.

My 80mm VGA fan runs off a motherboard fan plug, and the peak diode temperature I've seen at 73F room ambient for a clock setting of 580/1800(2x900) is about 64C with ATITool "3d-View" heat-up. I assume this means that I needn't set any fan-profile for the card -- or attempt to connect my fan to the VGA. Stock settings generate a 54C peak in the diode temperature.

Also, I overestimated the Zalman cooler's "low-profile," and I see that it consumes as much space as the stock cooler in reference to mobo slots. But its design is about as slim as could be managed, I think.

 

[Raider1284]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Zalman vf1000/900/700 will all work with the 8800GT.
Thermalright HR-03GT, V2 ultra
Thermaltake ND1 (i think, needs a bit of modding)
AC Accelro S1

Thats about it i think.

add the Thermaltake DuOrb to the list!

brought my temps of 60/105C at stock speeds to 40/60C at 725/1810/950!

 

[Gautama2]

^^Hows the noise on the DuOrb?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

soo vf-1000 FTW? esp in my lian li V case where the heatpipes are oriented in the proper way for heat movement (upwards)

 

[MichaelD]

I wanted to add something I found very interesting. After gaming hard for a week, the stress temps on my 8800GT have gone down quite a bit. Same room temp, same case cooling. My stress temps now range from 80-86C with a room temp of 23C and the stock cooling. Maybe the crappy stock thermal tape they use has gotten nice and broken in with hours and hours of 100C temps thrown at it?

Now, 86C is still insanely high, but it's better than 100C!

Just thought you guys would like to know. Anyone else notice this phenomenon?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

hmm my 70F room temps yields idle temps of 45C and load temps of 60C for my 8800gt mounted upside down

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
hmm my 70F room temps yields idle temps of 45C and load temps of 60C for my 8800gt mounted upside down

70F=21C
Your 60C load temp is incredibly low...do you run with an open case?

If not, then your case cooling is probably a lot better than mine. I have two low-speed 120mm fans (set on low...3 speed fan) exhaust fans on my P180. My case temp is 38-40C...obviously a lot higher than my 23C room temp.

I have another 120mm fan on the way for the front (which I will also run on low). That should help a little bit.

After dealing with a huge metal case (Antec 1040) with 5, 80mm fans for years (think vacuum cleaner) I'm willing to trade off a quiet case for higher temps.

 

[PowerHungry42]

I've heard that the new Thermalright HR-03GT's have landed in the US and should be at resellers next week if not earlier.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

well my 8800gt is mounted upside down, might help for heatpipe action.

also have a top 120mm fan intake blowing onto it and a lian li blower fan sucking on the side of it...

 

[bdubyah]

well my 880gt is upside down in my case and my idle temps are around 48-50C, and i don't think i've ever seen it above 60C when i alt-tabbed out of a game. but when i play UT3, i either lose signal after a bit or i get red dots on the screen. people have told me this is due to overheating. how is 60C overheating?

anyways, can someone recommend a good cooler that is cheap? and would some ram heatsinks help? also, is there a guide to installing these coolers? haven't done it before.

 

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
well my 8800gt is mounted upside down, might help for heatpipe action.

also have a top 120mm fan intake blowing onto it and a lian li blower fan sucking on the side of it...

The wick inside the heatpipe makes mounting a moot point.

 

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by: bdubyah
well my 880gt is upside down in my case and my idle temps are around 48-50C, and i don't think i've ever seen it above 60C when i alt-tabbed out of a game. but when i play UT3, i either lose signal after a bit or i get red dots on the screen. people have told me this is due to overheating. how is 60C overheating?

anyways, can someone recommend a good cooler that is cheap? and would some ram heatsinks help? also, is there a guide to installing these coolers? haven't done it before.

You need something that measures graphics. When you Alt+Tab out there is no longer any 3D data going through the GPU so it drops in temp quickly. ATi Tray Tools has this ability so you can see temps as they were while you were gaming, etc.

 

[CDC Mail Guy]

I don't quite know why, but RivaTuner only showed my (stock) fan speed at 18%. I increased it to 55% without noticing any difference in noise. Dropped from 65C to 56C in idle.