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Originally posted by: mwmorph
Originally posted by: Cerb
If you can pull off a 6800GT fanless, you've got good air flow. The extreme one will be nice and loud. The Schnooner will offer only slightly better temps than the Zalman ZM80, but not by much (and may or may not properly work in a desktop case).

The VF700 is nice because of easy installation and overall good cooling. mwmorph is wrong about it not cooling RAM. I don't know of it fits, though.

None of those large ones will be quick and painless to install--trust me. Good for a 0dBA card, but not easy to put together.

At this point, any of the decent fan-based coolers (except maybe the extreme giant III, which is just insane) should work well. The Silencers are not better or worse than the VF700, and neither are better or worse than the Schnooner, which is not really better or worse than the ZM80D. It all depends on what you want out of it.
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really? i mean i know it come with ramsinks, but the cooler itself does not touch the ram, thus it dosent cool the ram.
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Look at the fan and the design. No air goes over the top RAM from it, but it definitely foes over all the bottom RAM. Not that it does that much--with BGA RAM, esepcially, the heatsinks are more to keep a couple spots here and there from getting too hot comapred to the rest of the RAM chip than to keep the RAM's temp down.
 
look.
"CHAINTECH AA6800GT w/ NV SILENCER 5: THERMAL RESULTS
LOAD

Plugged Into AA6800GT

Plugged Into Fanmate @ 5V

Stock Cooler
Idle

GPU Core

50°C

53°C

53°C
"Ambient"

34°C

35°C

36°C
After 3DMark03

GPU Core

58°C

66°C

70°C
"Ambient"

44°C

51°C

53°C"

you should expect around 50 degree drop with it. it cools down to around 55-60 degrees load if installed correctly.
 
"After 3Mark03" still reads like bad monitoring (use the peak result, not the post-test result!). Still, how do you call -12ºC worse?
 
your cooler runs at 110 c. the artic silencer will be quieter and will decrease temps from YOUR cooler by 50-55c and perhaps decrease case air temps by around 3c. that's good enough considering you just halved the temp.

forget the other cooler. it's a totally different card with totally different conditions and the measurement is probably wrong and it's in a totally idfferent case(HTPC cases are tiny)
this is about your cooler and your conditions and by the look of it, the vf700 or NV silemncer 5 would be the best bet, and since im not sure how good your aiflow inside the case is, im guessing you should use a artic silencer to improve it.
 
Zalman cools the gpu better.
AS NV silencer 5 cools the case air better in general wuith a minimum loss of performance of gpu cooling comoared to the Zalman.
 
I need a cool gpu badly. So should I go for the zalman? I'm now running the computer with the case open.
 
just go for either, both will cool to acceptable temps. what you're looking at is the difference between 52c gpu and 57c gpu versus 35c ambient temp and 32c ambient temp or something similar.
they will both work fine. im just recommending the cheaper one sine it fulfills your needs for less money.
 
One thing before I go out the door to buy it, are you sure it's the fan's problem? What if it's the gpu's problem and then I got a fan and it still overheats and then I need to get another video card and wasted the money for the fan.
 
Originally posted by: dsj
One thing before I go out the door to buy it, are you sure it's the fan's problem? What if it's the gpu's problem and then I got a fan and it still overheats and then I need to get another video card and wasted the money for the fan.
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it cant be a gpu problem. unless you habvr it bolted at like 3v, it shouldnt be doing this. Im just guessing the fans dyin or that the hsf is detached from the gpu.
 
Also I can't wait for an rma. I have less than a month of vacation left and I can't sit here and pass the summer. I'll go get that arctic cooler. But how do I know if My case temp is too hot and needs the arctic cooler?
 
3 case fans.
GA k8ns ultra 939
athlon 64 3200+
1024 mb ram
1 hard drive
1floppy
2 optical drives
350W powersupply
 
both work well, but the zlaman costs so much more.
NV5 will meet your needs and then some.
you wont need that much cooling it seems.
it's like the difference between 110% and 120%. you wont notice a difference above 100% as long as it fills your needs.
zalamn will probably bring you maybe 10mhz more oc on the core, but both wor the same and fulfill requirements.
 
Zalman is only 10 dollars more. And I really want a very good cooler to bring down the temps. right now the temp is 81 degrees.
 
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