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Relief for those smokin hot GTX 470/480's!

I changed the TIM out on my EVGA 470. Dropped by about 5 degrees (went from 97 to 91 max playing STALKER)....meh

I've been looking at that cooler. I only have the 470 and a PCI audio card now, so I should be good to go in my 680i mobo
 
mrblotto said:
I changed the TIM out on my EVGA 470. Dropped by about 5 degrees (went from 97 to 91 max playing STALKER)....meh

I've been looking at that cooler. I only have the 470 and a PCI audio card now, so I should be good to go in my 680i mobo
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Try setting up a manual fan profile. My EVGA, for example, would not ramp up above 55% on Auto fan setting, which originally resulted in 94-95*C!!! With a a manual fan setting at 66%, I get 77-79*C.
 
How hard is it to switch out coolers ? Does it really cool the card much better then stock ? Looks like this could be a worthwhile upgrade...
 
I'm all for purchasing aftermarket coolers...and I have. 80 bucks for a cooler on your video card is down right insulting though. I'd kick the guy who came up with the price structure in the nuts before I ponied up 80 bucks. Ridiculous.
 
OCGuy said:
I've never had a heat issue with my 480. In fact, my 8800GTS 640 ran 10C hotter.
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its not a heat issue as much as it is a noise issue

the 470 comes standard with a 4 heat pipe cooler, and the 480 has 5 heat pipes. The problem with both is that they're crammed into a tiny space, not given any room to "breathe"

This means that in order to dissipate the heat they need a high speed blower fan forcing air over them.

With bigger/longer cooling fins and heatpipes that are also spread out more, as well as larger fans, it means a lot less noise on top of a lot more heat dissipation.

I'll try to dig up a review but the VF3000 with its fans on low could cool a GTX470 to 65C load vs. high 80s with the stock cooler with its fans obviously ramped up to 80+%

Not only would that mean reduced noise and temps but it means far greater overclocking headroom without sacrificing noise.
 
KevinH said:
I'm all for purchasing aftermarket coolers...and I have. 80 bucks for a cooler on your video card is down right insulting though. I'd kick the guy who came up with the price structure in the nuts before I ponied up 80 bucks. Ridiculous.
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why?

People spend that much if not more on CPU cooling regularly. How is the GPU different?

Good luck overclocking a GTX470 or 480 on the reference cooler without having to crank the stock fan to ear bleeding levels.
 
bunnyfubbles said:
why?

People spend that much if not more on CPU cooling regularly. How is the GPU different?

Good luck overclocking a GTX470 or 480 on the reference cooler without having to crank the stock fan to ear bleeding levels.
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Look. If I'm spending 80 bucks...give me water cooling or something exotic. Just because we're charged that much doesn't' make it sensible. You took an astronomical leap from stock fan to 80 bucks. There are a lot of options in between.
 
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Please keep in mind that while the card runs cooler, it doesn't put off any less heat. This cooler dumps the heat into the case, as well.
 
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Grooveriding said:
This is exactly the same cooler as you can get on a Zotac AMP edition.
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I do have the AMP and was wondering that when I saw the title. Cooler is a PITA thou because it takes up 3 slots and I only have one pci slot and it sits on top of my essence st.
 
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