question about VGA cooler
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Not all coolers are compatable with all cards.
What kind of card do you have?
Are you sure it's overheating?
What kind of card do you have?
Are you sure it's overheating?
It's at 110 degrees celcius. It's a agp version of the 6800GT by evga. I need a heatsink and fan that works.
110c holy heat batman!
do you have good ventilation/airflow? get the zalman zf700, or the NV Silencer 5 (this one can be a pain though)...no...I mean go with the zalman, you wont regret it.
BUT
you might want to think about it first as putting an aftermarket cooler on will void you warrenty.
do some thinking, you could prolly get an RMA, but I hear that is a PITA
jawshuwa
do you have good ventilation/airflow? get the zalman zf700, or the NV Silencer 5 (this one can be a pain though)...no...I mean go with the zalman, you wont regret it.
BUT
you might want to think about it first as putting an aftermarket cooler on will void you warrenty.
do some thinking, you could prolly get an RMA, but I hear that is a PITA
jawshuwa
The warranty has already expired so there's no such thing right now as vioding the warranty. How much is the zalamn one? And are one of those card shaped ones better than the fan ones?
The Zalman is the best one, beats the Artic Cooler hands down..........
it runs between $25 - $30
In canada the ALCU one is already 50 dollars. Mabe the store is overpricing. I'll try to check. What about those card ones? Like this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835124006
And does the zalman one have the vram cooler? It looks kind of small, just the fan.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835124006
And does the zalman one have the vram cooler? It looks kind of small, just the fan.
Cerb
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Is the fan dying? Is the heatsink clogged with dust?
Overheating with reference cooling (AFAIK, all eVGA cards use reference coolr designs) should not be a problem unless something is going bad, or you have really bad air flow. If air flow is the problem, then a shiny (really, they look a lot better than in the pictures
) new Zalman won't help much--it may extend the overheat time, but that's it. If something is going bad or has gone bad, it would be a great replacement.
Oh, yeah, being in Canada, try over at bit-tech.net. I could swear one of their forum stickies had online shops in various countries.
The Thermaltake coolers are fine. Try something like the Zalman flower or a nV Silencer, though, because if you don't have extremely good air flow, the big heatpipe ones are either going to be very loud, very poor performers, or both. I have a passive 5900XT, and it took some work to get it there. Also, the nicer heatpipe coolers take a lot of patience--you'll wish you have four hands, whether you use a fan or not. If you're up for it, the Zalman ZM80C and Thermaltake Schooner should be able to do the job.
The Zalman flower card cooler is not small (it's 4.9" at it's widest point!). Look at Leadtech's standard cooler for a small one. It work great, and the hot air then cools the RAM, too.
pic, via google, of VF700 installed
Overheating with reference cooling (AFAIK, all eVGA cards use reference coolr designs) should not be a problem unless something is going bad, or you have really bad air flow. If air flow is the problem, then a shiny (really, they look a lot better than in the pictures
) new Zalman won't help much--it may extend the overheat time, but that's it. If something is going bad or has gone bad, it would be a great replacement.Oh, yeah, being in Canada, try over at bit-tech.net. I could swear one of their forum stickies had online shops in various countries.
The Thermaltake coolers are fine. Try something like the Zalman flower or a nV Silencer, though, because if you don't have extremely good air flow, the big heatpipe ones are either going to be very loud, very poor performers, or both. I have a passive 5900XT, and it took some work to get it there. Also, the nicer heatpipe coolers take a lot of patience--you'll wish you have four hands, whether you use a fan or not. If you're up for it, the Zalman ZM80C and Thermaltake Schooner should be able to do the job.
The Zalman flower card cooler is not small (it's 4.9" at it's widest point!). Look at Leadtech's standard cooler for a small one. It work great, and the hot air then cools the RAM, too.
pic, via google, of VF700 installed
The thing about the RMA is that the warranty is expired. Someone are recommending zalman v700 and some the nv cooler 5 and another person says the stasisthermal is the best. Which one is it?
do you have good airflow in case?
if you dont, the NV silencer will help a lot by expelling hout air out of case. cools memory as well, but that's not critical.
Zalman VF700 is good. huge and may not fit though. better take measurements. does not cool memory and dosent fit all 6800gt cards.imay have to bendsome caps if your pcb layout is weird.
That other one(kingwin) is hard to put together but cools well for the price.
The NV silencer is good, makes case ambiet temps cooler too, vf700 is 1 step below water cooling as fas as temps go(NV silencer is slightly worse but not by too much,), never relly read anything about the kingwin one.
all 3 are quiet though. you just have top decide which you most want. quietness&colling(Zalman), quietness and improved case airflow(NV silencer), or quietness and value(Kingwin).
if you dont, the NV silencer will help a lot by expelling hout air out of case. cools memory as well, but that's not critical.
Zalman VF700 is good. huge and may not fit though. better take measurements. does not cool memory and dosent fit all 6800gt cards.imay have to bendsome caps if your pcb layout is weird.
That other one(kingwin) is hard to put together but cools well for the price.
The NV silencer is good, makes case ambiet temps cooler too, vf700 is 1 step below water cooling as fas as temps go(NV silencer is slightly worse but not by too much,), never relly read anything about the kingwin one.
all 3 are quiet though. you just have top decide which you most want. quietness&colling(Zalman), quietness and improved case airflow(NV silencer), or quietness and value(Kingwin).
There are not many who have tried both. Everyone is recommending what they have!
The advantage of the Silencer is that it expels warm air out of the case. So, it helps with the overall cooling of the case as well. The disadvantage of the Silencer is that one big piece of metal has to fit on the core as well as the memory. That is why the latest revision uses thermal tape on the memory. Of course thermal tape degrades cooling compared to thermal paste.
The advantage of the Zalamn cooler is that the core and the memory have separate sinks. So, if the core is hot, it will not heat up the memory. The disadvantage of the Zalman cooler is that the memory sinks are installed with adhesive thermal tape. So, if you remove it, you will need to get another unused thermal tape. Also, it does not expel the warm air out.
The advantage of the Silencer is that it expels warm air out of the case. So, it helps with the overall cooling of the case as well. The disadvantage of the Silencer is that one big piece of metal has to fit on the core as well as the memory. That is why the latest revision uses thermal tape on the memory. Of course thermal tape degrades cooling compared to thermal paste.
The advantage of the Zalamn cooler is that the core and the memory have separate sinks. So, if the core is hot, it will not heat up the memory. The disadvantage of the Zalman cooler is that the memory sinks are installed with adhesive thermal tape. So, if you remove it, you will need to get another unused thermal tape. Also, it does not expel the warm air out.
Does the nvcooler one also have memory heatsinks? I just want my system as cool as possible. And what about the thermaltake and stasisthermal ones? Many people recommended them.
it is like this
http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=nv5_1
that big copper thing cools both memory and gpu at the same time.
the statis thermal seem to include individual ramsinks, but truth be told, Ramsinks are worthless. they will not increase your oc ro pull really that much heat. it's really just decorative like the heatspreaders on "premium" ram.
http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=nv5_1
that big copper thing cools both memory and gpu at the same time.
the statis thermal seem to include individual ramsinks, but truth be told, Ramsinks are worthless. they will not increase your oc ro pull really that much heat. it's really just decorative like the heatspreaders on "premium" ram.
So the arctic cooler is better than the zalman? Zalman also includes individual ram heatsinks. What about the thermaltake ones?
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/chipset/cl-g0003fanless/cl-g00003.htm
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/chipset/a1919.htm
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/chipset/cl-g0009schooner/cl-g0009.htm
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/chipset/cl-g0003fanless/cl-g00003.htm
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/chipset/a1919.htm
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/chipset/cl-g0009schooner/cl-g0009.htm
I'm in Canada too, when I need to order mod stuff I use www.adpmods.com . The customer service was very helpful the one time I needed it, and shipping was fast. Prices are pretty good. http://www.adpmods.com/case-modding/Zal...Aluminum-Copper-VGA-Cooler-p-1586.html
Arctic cooler is only selling for 30 dollars, the zalman one is 45 dollars. Is the arctic cooler good enough?
Cerb
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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.
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.
really? i mean i know it come with ramsinks, but the cooler itself does not touch the ram, thus it dosent cool the ram.
read more reviews. I dont know why case temp dropped like 5 degrees while gpu temp increased 10 degrees. i think it's measured wrong since case temps should really only drop a few degrees and gpu temp should drop another few degrees.
Checkout the ThermalRight V-1. New on the market this week and a pretty strong contender. You can buy BGA sinks from any shop such as the one I've linked the V-1 cooler to.
What I'm concerned about is, the reason why your chassis isn't exhausting 100degrees of the dissipation from the Graphics card itself?
What kind of chassis do you have?
The positive feature of the Silencer as Navid stated above. Is that the Silencer actually moves the heat out of the case. The Zalman doesn't.
What I'm concerned about is, the reason why your chassis isn't exhausting 100degrees of the dissipation from the Graphics card itself?
What kind of chassis do you have?
The positive feature of the Silencer as Navid stated above. Is that the Silencer actually moves the heat out of the case. The Zalman doesn't.
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