Well hello all, it's been quite some time but, just did my winter cleaning and thought I'd share an update with you all.
I've had the Jing Ting Force chipset cooler for a LONG time now, essentially since it was introduced and I can honestly say it's performed better than stock on my DFI LP UT nf4 Ultra-D but, nothing to really write home about besides it's silence, till now.
For those that don't know/remember me, I modify everything. Everything. At various points I've gone so far as to hardmod(pencilmod) a 9500 into a 9800 then voltmod my new 9800 to new records and an early demise. I've softmodded a 6200 to a 6600, hardmoded a 7800gt to a GTX and voltmodded it, I hardmodded my LP NF4 Ultra-D into an SLI-D. The list goes on but, I think you get the point.
Well, my 6200(6600) finally went kaput on me just a couple days ago and in looking for it's replacement I've finally settled on an 8500GT and am just waiting on delivery. It hadn't eve yet arrived and I was looking for ways to modify it, in any way I can and I settled on going the simple route and just upgrading cooling so I can overclock it just a little bit more. The search eventually lead me to the Zalman VNF100 due almost entirely to a tight list of restrictions for the system it's going into and it's relativery inexpensive pricetag.
In researching it's installation to make sure it would fit I noticed that zalman reccomends putting some TIM in the grooves with the heatpipes during installation. Simple enough. That got me to thinking though. I've had this Jing Ting for a few years and never put any TIM in it's heatpipe groove. It occured to me that I've blatantly neglected such a simple step. (this is where the forehead slapping comes in.) Now, to be clear there are no installation instructions with the jing ting, and I have to say I read atleast a dozen reviews before buying it and none mentioned this step.
It made nay too much sense and I had to try it. The TIM between the chipset and the cooler was a few years old and wasn't the best quality from the get go so I decided that a full re-seating of all my heatsinks was in order. I put new AS5 on my Thermalright XP-120, my heavily modified arctic cooling nv5 and not only under but inside my jingting chipset cooler. I also, while i was at it, took off the flimsy old 40mm 5cfm fan and put on a 60x38 Silverstone fan I've had laying around for a while, and positioned the fan to pull air from a front 120mm and pass it across the NV5 and out the back.
Everything said and done my NF4 chipset now idles at 34C, an NF4! That is an 8c drop in idle and running everything I can possibly throw at it it hasn't gone past 42c, where it used to idle, and where it used to peak right about 52C. Those weren't bad temps for an NF4, but now it's got to be the coolest NF4 I've ever owned, especially considering it's at 1.6v.
I've had the Jing Ting Force chipset cooler for a LONG time now, essentially since it was introduced and I can honestly say it's performed better than stock on my DFI LP UT nf4 Ultra-D but, nothing to really write home about besides it's silence, till now.
For those that don't know/remember me, I modify everything. Everything. At various points I've gone so far as to hardmod(pencilmod) a 9500 into a 9800 then voltmod my new 9800 to new records and an early demise. I've softmodded a 6200 to a 6600, hardmoded a 7800gt to a GTX and voltmodded it, I hardmodded my LP NF4 Ultra-D into an SLI-D. The list goes on but, I think you get the point.
Well, my 6200(6600) finally went kaput on me just a couple days ago and in looking for it's replacement I've finally settled on an 8500GT and am just waiting on delivery. It hadn't eve yet arrived and I was looking for ways to modify it, in any way I can and I settled on going the simple route and just upgrading cooling so I can overclock it just a little bit more. The search eventually lead me to the Zalman VNF100 due almost entirely to a tight list of restrictions for the system it's going into and it's relativery inexpensive pricetag.
In researching it's installation to make sure it would fit I noticed that zalman reccomends putting some TIM in the grooves with the heatpipes during installation. Simple enough. That got me to thinking though. I've had this Jing Ting for a few years and never put any TIM in it's heatpipe groove. It occured to me that I've blatantly neglected such a simple step. (this is where the forehead slapping comes in.) Now, to be clear there are no installation instructions with the jing ting, and I have to say I read atleast a dozen reviews before buying it and none mentioned this step.
It made nay too much sense and I had to try it. The TIM between the chipset and the cooler was a few years old and wasn't the best quality from the get go so I decided that a full re-seating of all my heatsinks was in order. I put new AS5 on my Thermalright XP-120, my heavily modified arctic cooling nv5 and not only under but inside my jingting chipset cooler. I also, while i was at it, took off the flimsy old 40mm 5cfm fan and put on a 60x38 Silverstone fan I've had laying around for a while, and positioned the fan to pull air from a front 120mm and pass it across the NV5 and out the back.
Everything said and done my NF4 chipset now idles at 34C, an NF4! That is an 8c drop in idle and running everything I can possibly throw at it it hasn't gone past 42c, where it used to idle, and where it used to peak right about 52C. Those weren't bad temps for an NF4, but now it's got to be the coolest NF4 I've ever owned, especially considering it's at 1.6v.
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