XFX 6600 GT

[P0pinjay]

So I took a closer look at the heat sync on my XFX 6600 GT today and I have never been so underwhelmed in my life. This is the most half assed, 15 minute design job I've ever seen. Underneath the fancy aluminum heat sync (and loud as hell fan) there is a little slab of copper. It looks like the went to the scrap yard and bought a bunch of copper pieces wholesale...then slapped them on these things. There was a huge gob of thermal grease between the copper plate and the GPU. I doubt if the copper was touching the GPU anywhere.

Needless to say, I'll be replacing this thing soon. Has anyone here found a quiet, simple cooling solution for the 6600GT's? I've heard those Arctic Cooling units work well but it seems like overkill for the power consumption of this card.

 

[P0pinjay]

Well now I see that Arctic Cooling has a version of their silencer for the 6600 GT. Anyone tried this thing? And if so...are you satisfied with it?

 

[MisterChief]

I'm still using stock cooling. I don't seem to have the sloppy application of the HS like yours does...the lemons, perhaps?

 

[mooncancook]

You wouldn't go wrong with either the silencer or the Zalman VF700. I had the Zalman installed on my previous leadtek 6600GT. It cools better and runs silent. Installation was simple too. What's more, I bought a X800XL and I could reuse the VF700 on it, and put the original HS back on the 6600GT.

 

[imported_CAMPER]

hmm I have the first run of the xfx with the 1.6 memory and the orignal heatsink with dog.


I overclock the living h3ll out of it with no problems...


Be sure if ur buying after market its for agp with bridge not pci express.

 

[Chocolate Pi]

I picked XFX because Anandtech praised its heatsink and memory. Both, for me, are jsut as they said...

 

[P0pinjay]

Originally posted by: CAMPER
hmm I have the first run of the xfx with the 1.6 memory and the orignal heatsink with dog.


I overclock the living h3ll out of it with no problems...


Be sure if ur buying after market its for agp with bridge not pci express.

Yea I have the "heatsink with dog" too. Not sure if it has the 1.6ns memory though. Is there any way to tell this? Also, I have the PCIe version of this card.

 

[Spudd]

Hey everyone. I too have an XFX 6600GT AGP. It's the revision 2 with the silver HSF. My idle temps were 70C. Yes, 70C. I knew something was unacceptably wrong when I fired up the new Splinter Cell demo, and started getting artifacts (white and black squares, jumping all over the screen like flying bugs or something). Quit to desktop, and temp was dropping down from 96C...MBM5 reported case ambient as 39C.

Anyway, I pulled out the card, and took a look at it. I removed the HSF, got rid of whatever that white crap was they were using for thermal compound, and put some AS5 on there. Booted back up. New boot idle temp 55C. Running for the last 30 minutes, idle temp 60C. So, this seems like a quick fix until I can find a good replacement HSF.

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah i hear that most the heatsinks are cheesy on the GF6 solutions

imo there is no excuse for not migrating to copper solutions with stock temps reaching such extreme highs

I might be going with the BFG 6800 vanilla here soon, it seems to have one of the better heatsinks in the heap of quick to market solutions out right now

 

[Pieded]

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/jejaunvgaco.html

anyone want to try this?

 

[imported_pendragon]

My XFX 6600GT agp has the "newer" oem heat sink fan. The shiny one.
It's attached flush, cools very well.
Idles at 50. Plays everything I want just fine, eg: Far Cry, Painkiller, CoD, CMR/05, HL2, Men of Valor etc.
Overclocked to 581/1.21 got a 3dmark 05 score of 3675, no artifacts.
It does artifact if I push it further than that.
I usually run it at default settings 500/1000 unless benching/testing.
I got it around Christmas time and it's been just what I expected to be.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=472671

 

[Soulkeeper]

nah i want an slk some epoxy, and some bga copper ramsinks that people don't like to sell too often (or charge too much)

 

[hans030390]

huh....i just got a leadtek 6600GT agp today....doesnt USUALLY go above 50 C in games...and the heatsink design is awesome...and quiet

if you want a replacement card, go for leadtek, but obviously, thats not what this thread is about