Video card Cooling 2 items in question

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CrimsonCutie

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I am looking over items to add on to my new build, as i finish putting it together. One thing i am considering is adding extra measures to cooling of the video card. It will be a 7800GTX.

First item i am looking at are the Aluminium RAM heatsink. They look like they would help and iknow the ram modules are usually untouched by cooling methods. Any one use theses?

Second item up for question is Dual heatpipe VGA cooler. Does anyone have this unit? If so does it perform as well as active fan based methods.

The case will have rather good ventilation. 2 front intake fans, 2 rear fans, 1 top blowhole, and 1 side intake fan. All 80MM

thanks for the input :)
 
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imported_Kensai

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1. Fairly useless.
2. Don't even try it. Or if you do, take pictures of your card overheating and burning up for AT.

Get the Zalman vf-700Cu instead..
 
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CrimsonCutie

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LMAO thanks for the warm and fuzzy kensai :p
I'll be sure to take a small video clip of the blue geneie escapeing.

What about useing the ram heatsinks? i mean if the ram chips are just bare anyway, with nothing on them.. doesn't the lil heatsinks help?
 
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Operandi

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Originally posted by: CrimsonCutie
LMAO thanks for the warm and fuzzy kensai :p
I'll be sure to take a small video clip of the blue geneie escapeing.

What about useing the ram heatsinks? i mean if the ram chips are just bare anyway, with nothing on them.. doesn't the lil heatsinks help?
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The VF-700 comes with those little blue heatsinks.
 
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imported_Kensai

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Originally posted by: Operandi
Originally posted by: CrimsonCutie
LMAO thanks for the warm and fuzzy kensai :p
I'll be sure to take a small video clip of the blue geneie escapeing.

What about useing the ram heatsinks? i mean if the ram chips are just bare anyway, with nothing on them.. doesn't the lil heatsinks help?
Click to expand...

The VF-700 comes with those little blue heatsinks.
Click to expand...


Agreed. I have three vf-700Cu's.
 
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charlietee

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I have owned both...And for my money unless you just have to have the Zalman the Artic Cooling Silencers with OCZ copper ram sinks is a hard combination to beat.

I did extensive testing using a Lian-Li T4 temperature monitor with one of the probes taped to the back of the GPU...The Artic Cooling kept the GPU cooler by a couple of degrees C...

Compared the Thermaltake, Zalman with the optional fan and Artic Cooling in a Antec 1080 PlusView with 2 92 NMB fans up front, 80 in the door, 2 80's in the back, 92m/m NMB blow hole and a 120m/m Antec on the right side blowing on the back of the motherboard.

That is my experience anyway...One thing that really turned me off to the Zalman was the weight...Made my video card start drooping after about a month...Took that puppy out and promptly sold it.

If you look at the product over view for the Zalman LINK They recommend removing one of the PCI slot cover under the AGP card...Claims it will reduce temps by 4 to 5 degrees C...The Artic Cooling design ducts the hot air off the GPU and discharges it through the PCI slot...Which in my opinion is a much better design versus the Zalman.

Dont get me wrong...I like Zalman stuff but prefer ThermalRight CPU cooling solutions and Artic Cooling GPU cooling solutions.







 
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CrimsonCutie

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cool...
does anyone have a nice link to a good place to pick up the Artic Cooler for cheap? for the 7800

i luv all you guyz :) so smart hehe

NewEgg has one for the 6800 would it work?
 
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