What's the best HSF/Ramsinks for a Radeon LE?

[Serori]

I was looking at milisec. But eh, I'm trying to find one thats not too loud and hopefully not going to take up more than 1 PCI slot. hell if it doesnt even take up 1 that'd be great too! Just something so I can keep it at 183/183 since my box is too hot to do that with just the heatsink.

 

[pay]

Get the blue orb and some ramskins at 2cooltek.

 

[Serori]

Yeah I see that, but will it fit? What about the 32MB DDR Kit thats listed? Any good? Where's the ramsinks for it? What kinda epoxy/thermal tape should I get if I get the blorb (since it doesnt come with it, neither do any sinks usually)

 

[pay]

Use Arctic Silver Epoxy for the blueorb.. And I don't think you'll need any ramsinks

 

[pay]

Dont buy those useless rip off kits.

 

[MrHelpful]

'Useless'? 'Rip-off'? Please explain.

 

[McCarthy]

The heatsink on the LE is quite nice as it is. Leave it.

Stick a 40mm fan on there, vroom, off you go. Took one off my 486, doesn't take up a PCI slot (though tight) and all's well up to 180 something. But I didn't see much improvement in FPS in what I was doing so I just left it at stock and quit playing. Left the fan though, damn GPU should outlive me.

--Mc

 

[JoeBob]

I have a Radeon LE and have had it OC'd to 183/183 for some months without any more than just the heatsink and I have no problems. I have seen others make the same statement as well. Most people say they only need the extra cooling if they want to go higher than that. IMO you are fine if all you want is 183/183.

 

[Nelmster]

Wow, this is cool, then! I have mine at 190 without any fan at all! What do I do to test for stability? 3DMark2001 runs great!

 

[statix]

Yea like McCarthy said just slap 40mm fan, it fits perfectly and it's cheap.