Sell BFG 8800 GT to get a card with better HSF?

[WhipperSnapper]

In mid-December I bought the BFG 8800 GT for about $225 after taxes, which seemed like a good price at the time. However, it has that pathetic, shitty reference HSF. The card itself works fine (except for a problem processing a texture and thus low frame rates in UT 2004 that all 8000 series cards seem to have).

Should I try to sell the card on Craig's List for about what I paid for it and then see if I can find a good deal on a comparable card but with a much better HSF?

 

[angry hampster]

You won't get what you paid for it. Take of the stock cooler and put a Zalman VF900 or an accelero on it.

 

[AzN]

Did you try turning up the PWM fan? Maybe you have a bad card not because it has reference cooler. Trying to sell a card you don't know the what is wrong with can be a big no no.

I agree with hampster. You should just buy a after market cooler.

 

[tigersty1e]

What are your temps?

I also have that card. The lifetime warranty is just telling me to keep and if it dies just RMA it.

 

[pontifex]

i've heard that the 8800gt cards fans are set to run at 30% all the time, no matter the load, but you can adjust that through ntune or some other software.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I'm happy with the stock fan on my 8800GT. Just set it to 55% using Rivaturner. 69c at load and not loud.

 

[angry hampster]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
I'm happy with the stock fan on my 8800GT. Just set it to 55% using Rivaturner. 69c at load and not loud.

? not loud? What is your definition of "loud?" :laugh: Mine was unbearable at anything over 50%.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

I'm using RivaTuner and it's just fine. It seems to run UT3 at about 65-75 degrees and I don't think it's all that noisey (but I have a loud case to begin with). Of course, it's also wintertime right now. It isn't overclocked. Nothing wrong with the card really and yeah, it has that nice BFG warranty. Still, I'd prefer to get one with a better HSF (like that MSI that Newegg has with all the heatpipes) if I could get back what I paid for it.

 

[aussiestilgar]

Selling the BFG and buying a card with a cooler would probably end up around the same cost, about $40 or so - which you could use to buy a cooler and put on your BFG anyway. No downtime if you do the latter.
Besides, the BFG's overclock nicely, above 700MHz, I'm gonna keep mine stock until theres a game that needs the extra clocks (a year or 2 from now?). At that stage I'll either put on a cooler or just buy a new card.

 

[cdnbum88]

I have the XFX 8800GT and I out on the Accelero S1 and slapped on a Noctua 120mm fan and it is cool as a cucumber.

Idle temps 40-41 and load after playing Crysis at High settings hits the 50's.

I would say buy a good aftermarket fan and the S1 is dirt cheap and get a decent 120mm fan or two and you are good to go.