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June 7th, 2007
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| Muse is Music  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pacific Grove, CA
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|  Graphics card cooler I'm looking for a really massive graphics card cooler. Even cranking up the stock cooling on my 8600GT, it's still artifacting, so I fugured I should get a new cooler. Noise is NOT an issue. Size is not an issue. In the $30 - $80 range. Definetly air cooling. Thanks for any suggestions. Nate  Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 + Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL + Thermalright HR-05 IFX 2GB G.Skill 800MHz F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Silverstone Decathlon 650W Western Digital 250GB SATA II |
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June 7th, 2007
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| Modder-ator  | Re: Graphics card cooler I think the Thermalright HR-03 is going to be your best bet. Just remember that it does not come with a fan, so you are on your own to pair it with an 80mm or 92mm (or even 120mm if you get creative) fan of your choice.   |
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June 7th, 2007
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| Muse is Music Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pacific Grove, CA
Posts: 4,239
| How's this look: Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GH-UDUP21-VC Ball VGA Cooler - Retail With the HR-03, how many PCI slots does it take up and what about RAM cooling on the video card? EDIT: How would this work in a SLI setup? Is is compatible with the 8600GT? Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 + Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL + Thermalright HR-05 IFX 2GB G.Skill 800MHz F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Silverstone Decathlon 650W Western Digital 250GB SATA II Last edited by gvblake22; June 8th, 2007 at 17:14. Reason: consecutive posts merged |
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June 8th, 2007
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| The Real Final Word  | Re: Graphics card cooler My first question is, "why is this new 8600 artifacting????" Do you have it overclocked or what? If not, then you need to RMA that card. It should do fine with the factory HSF!!! If you are overclocking, then turn it down, or don't overclock at all!!! Overclocking the upper range video card of today really don't get you that much of a gain, vs the "artifacts" that will most likely happen, let alone the possibility of frying your video card!  |
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June 8th, 2007
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| Jumpmaster  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lansing, KS
Posts: 618
| Re: Graphics card cooler Before I would spend the money on an aftermarket cooler that may not even be the problem, I would look at these, in order: System air flow Drivers System (chipset) drivers re-seat the factory HSF unit with some fresh thermal paste PSU (is the card getting quality electricity?) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo @2211.3 MHz MS-7125 Rev 1.0 nForce4 K8N-Neo4 Plat Phoenix 6.00 PG 05/22/2006 BIOS 2 x OCZ4001024PF 1 GB PC3200/400 3-3-3-8 2T nVidia XFX GF8800GT 512 DX9c Samsung SyncMaster 930B 1 x WD800JB / 2 x WD2000JD HP DVD640 OCZ 520ADJ SLI PSU |
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