Thermaltake GeForce 4* Highest Performance cooler

[eroch]

Right now I have an MSI Ti4600-VTD and the fan on this card is quite annoying. I've been looking around and found this Thermaltake cooler that is supposedly 29 dBA (which should be VERY quiet).

I was wondering if anybody has had any experience with this cooler, and if it's as quiet as they claim it to be.

Thanks

 

[jader]

I have this ThermalTake fan on my VisionTek GF4 Ti 4600. I really liked the fan at first, mostly because I just thought that it looked cool. But after using it for only a couple months, it is already squealing like a stuck pig. I've used several TT products in the past, and it seems they are always louder than specified. The small, high pitched whiney fan used for this video card cooler isn't worth it IMO.

 

[godmare]

Originally posted by: eroch
Right now I have an MSI Ti4600-VTD and the fan on this card is quite annoying. I've been looking around and found this Thermaltake cooler that is supposedly 29 dBA (which should be VERY quiet).

I was wondering if anybody has had any experience with this cooler, and if it's as quiet as they claim it to be.

Thanks

It's not nearly as quiet as it claims. I have it 7 volted on my rig, and I doubt it's even at 29 dB now (it's not very quiet at all), plus it's very shrill.
The MSI cards are some of the loudest GF4 cards, so it will seem quiet to you at first, but it is by no means quiet, especially if you are working to silent your rig.
I am not very impressed with my qualitative assessment of cooling, either: the gpu backside is very hot. System is perfectly stable, though.

Look at the Zalman ZM80A-HP. Perfectly silent

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: eroch
Right now I have an MSI Ti4600-VTD and the fan on this card is quite annoying. I've been looking around and found this Thermaltake cooler that is supposedly 29 dBA (which should be VERY quiet).

I was wondering if anybody has had any experience with this cooler, and if it's as quiet as they claim it to be.

Thanks

29 dba isn't quiet at all. Plus the fact that Thermaltake lies about product specs. If you don't mind losing the PCI slot immediately under the AGP slot, get that Zalmon hs. If you don't mind losing several or all of your PCI slots, get any 80mm CPU hs, attach a 7 V panaflo to it, and proceed to oc the hell out of your video card

 

[keitaro]

Originally posted by: eroch
Right now I have an MSI Ti4600-VTD and the fan on this card is quite annoying. I've been looking around and found this Thermaltake cooler that is supposedly 29 dBA (which should be VERY quiet).

I was wondering if anybody has had any experience with this cooler, and if it's as quiet as they claim it to be.

Thanks

It's difficult to believe a fan of any size will produce 29dba when they said the fan's rated at 5500RPM. I have this installed and while I cannot comment on the noise level (need to work on that for my rig soon), I have the 3rd wire hooked up to the 3-pin fanheader's rotation line. BIOS is saying that it's running at 6000RPM which, while technically within their +/-10% specs, is way above than what I bargained for. I plan on doing a wire hack to attach this thing to a normal 3-pin fan header so that I can control it in SpeedFan. Stupid Thermaltake bothered with a 3pin to 4pin molex yet didn't bother with a 3pin fan header for those who have one to spare. However I digress.

If any, get the Zalman heatsink that others has suggested if you're aiming for quietness... in addition, you can add a slow fan to help with the cooling. It'll eat up a PCI slot but at least it'll cool that GeForce4 down.

If space is an issue or that you don't want a big lug of metal making a GeForce4 card weighing like a brick of gold, get the TT GeForce4 cooler. It may be noisier but alternative measures are available. It'll just take a little bit of effort to get it down to tolerable noise level.

 

[nagger]

I have mine attached to the Fan Only channels from my TruePower 430. It's pretty silent right now