What's a good cooler for an X800GTO?

[OCNewbie]

Currently I have a Connect3D PCI-e X800GTO with 16 pipes unlocked via BIOS flash I believe, and OC'd to X850XT levels 520/540 core/mem. It runs sorta hot, up to 85C though under full load, and I figured I'd buy a cheap aftermarket cooler for it that would offer good cooling performance, maybe I'll be able to squeeze some more speed out of it.

Is there a big difference between this one ATI Silencer 4 and this one ATI Silencer 4 Rev. 2, or is the one for $9.99 a good buy and worth it over the stock cooler?

Thanks

 

[OCNewbie]

bump, c'mon, I know some of you guys can give me a tip on this one

 

[Mattd46612]

I have a GTO2 with a Ati Silencer 5 on it and love it. I looks like the rev 2 is compatible with more cards, I would think the 5 would fit yours too.

 

[MDE]

I had a Zalman VF700 Cu on mine, I'm sure you could find one in the FS\FT forum pretty cheap. Either the Cu or AlCu will work well.

 

[Engineer]

IIRC, the X800GTO is actually a R480 core. If that's the case, then I would imagine the Silencer 5 (click me) would work as it was designed for a 480 core, as Mattd46612 stated above.

 

[OCNewbie]

I noticed the Silencer 4/Rev 2 seems to have copper ram extensions directly attached to the main heat-sink for the front of the card, where the Silencer 5/Rev 2 just seems to have some sort of thermal pads for the ram chips. My assumption would be the direct contact to copper would be better than the thermal pads? So I might go with that one. And btw, my Connect3D X800GTO uses the R423 chipset I believe, and the ATI4/Rev2 seems to be for the 420 chipset which I guess mine is. Should fit ok I believe. Looking at my card and looking at either Silencer 4 or 5, both RAM sink location seem to align correctly with the way my card's RAM layout is.

And I think I like the idea of the Silencer style better versus the Zalman style since the Silencer's have the exhaust feature, which I think would be good for mysetup. It's a LANBOY case, so sorta small, and not the best ventilation I would say.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: Engineer
IIRC, the X800GTO is actually a R480 core. If that's the case, then I would imagine the Silencer 5 (click me) would work as it was designed for a 480 core, as Mattd46612 stated above.

You do recall correctly... All the X800GTO's that unlock to 16 pipes have R480 cores. My X800GTO, otoh, does not unlock, and is an R423 core. I run mine at 570/550.

 

[OCNewbie]

Actually, my R423 core is running at 16 pipes now =) Max stable is around 550/555 I believe, but I don't run it past 540/550 for games, etc.

I bought an Arctic Cooling Silencer 4 Rev 2 for it, helped a lot. Max load is about 63C now, when before it was 78-85, and idle is down about 10 degrees as well. This is in a reasonably warm Florida home, so a highish ambient temp.

 

[Munky]

The r423 core is from the x800xt, so it's just as likely to unlock as the r480 core of the x850xt. I had a r423 gto unlocked and OC'd to 580mhz, and either the silencer or the zalman vf700 would easily cool the card.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Interesting, because I've read on a couple of sites that the GTO's basedon the R423 core cannot unlock to 16 pipes. I'm a victim of a conspiracy, I tell ya!

 

[OCNewbie]

Check out this link - It was only the Connect3D PCI-e version with VIVO. Some other R423 cards may have been able to unlock too, but they had to have the yellow VIVO connector, or the yellow CD-in connector on the PCB. After a while they fixed the Connect3D cards where they could no longer unlock.

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