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FAO: OCuK. HR-03 / R600..or other after market 2900 coolers?

CaNNoN_1981 said:
Hi Chaosophy,

i'm in the same boat as you, im gonna have to install mine under the card as my Zalman Flower is in the way. Just a quick ques, which direction did you have the fan blowing in your pic? Down towards the bottom of your case or up towards the card?
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I've tried both, haven't had time to properly test but to be honest didn't see a huge difference in card temps either way. But a real test may show a difference once the case heats up.

The hardest part is fitting the cooler, ok you need to remove the card to easily flip the fan but once the heat sink is fitted it's no big deal.

Blowing up is the way I have it at the moment. That's part of the reason why I have removed the PCI blanking plates so that the fan has a chance to try and pull in some cooler air to blow up over the fins. And then for the hot air to be able to get out easier. Think I may stick one back in to get the air to flow under and over it(?)

Problem is that I'm a bit worried that heat is getting blow straight back on to the GPU chip and getting stuck under the card. Sticking my fingers in the gap does feel a bit warmer when this way. Though you do already have the vents in the 2nd PCI slot the card takes up for ventilation. Plus I have an Akasa Eclipse which is wider than a normal case, so a good few inches clearance at the side.

Still wondering whether a stronger fan would be better as I can't feel a huge amount of air flow making it through the fins, though the rizla test shows there is some there.

Blowing down, and the gap between the card and cooler did feel like there was less heat there but then all the heat was getting blow straight on to the back of my X-Fi. And with not a great amount of airflow front to back from the front HDD fan, the heat is just going to rise anyway.

re: air over the ram sinks. Which ever way you fit the cooler one lot of ram on the other side isn't getting any air flow. Plus when you remove the stock cooler the coper block is only cooling the GPU, and is the only bit getting air from the fan. Unless you're going for insane overclocks the ram sinks with little or no air flow should be enough. And if you are going for insane clocks you'll probably be on water and will either have an all in one block or ram sinks and no fan.

Either way I'm happy with the purchase. Other than this issue with the VDDC bit it's cooler and quieter and as yet I don't miss the missing slots. Thinking about seeing if I can flip the cpu cooler 90 degrees, fit the HR-03 the other way and have the whole lot blow up and use the PSU to vent, plus keep the rear case fan. But don't want to overheat the PSU and have it's fan start making all the noise.

Tempted to get a quad core if Crysis shows it's multi core potential, hopefully the demo will be fully multi core optimised and I can decide whether or not to go quad before next year. So may wait until then to flip the CPU cooler.
 
willhub said:
Was that 49 degrees at first boot stressing it?

Also how come is your X-Fi light blue :s I thought they were red :s
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nope, just a bit of windows work.

No idea on the X-fi light, thought they where all blue? It's an Elite Pro if that makes any difference? Maybe the Fatilitys are red?
 
Just stuck them on. They come with sticky thermal pads already on them and you just peel off the strip of plastic and pop them on the chips. Did clean the chips off a bit before applying though, not that they where overly messy.

Have seen people on other forums saying they have cleaned off the pre applied pads and then used thermal epoxy to stick them on.

The pads seems pretty sticky to be honest, don't think there's much danger of them falling off, epoxy them on and I think you'd have no chance getting them back off. As for the thermals of the pads, no idea but mem temps are down from the stock cooler.
 
\o/ nice one, how'd this install go, ok I guess?

did you go under the card in the end, and which fan on it and which way for the air flow? Be interested in pics as well.

my turn for the questions now. :D
 
After City Link messed up the delivery twice, I have now to go and collect my HR03 about thirty miles from where I live :( Im def not paying more postage for them to not deliver it again.
 
Both me and my flat mate have had f'ups by citylink when ordering from OcUK. Don't know if they are generally bad, or they just don't like us geeks. :D
 
chaosophy said:
Both me and my flat mate have had f'ups by citylink when ordering from OcUK. Don't know if they are generally bad, or they just don't like us geeks. :D
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Its not the first time this has happend. City Link seems to like the idea of just not delivering stuff and signing their papers saying that they dropped a note through the door, or they will just drop a note through the door and not knock on. In my case they just dropped a note through the door and left the first time. I then called them to re-schedule the delivery, they then turned up a day late and just dropped another note through the door and asked me over the phone how I would be paying for the re-delivery of the goods. Very kindly I told them to shove it where the sun doesnt shine and that I would be picking it up Sat morning from their place.

E.D.I.T.: Im pretty sure this has been discussed before but I really dont know why OcUk use City Link :(
 
chaosophy said:
\o/ nice one, how'd this install go, ok I guess?

did you go under the card in the end, and which fan on it and which way for the air flow? Be interested in pics as well.

my turn for the questions now. :D
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install was easy i thought, hardest thing for me was taking stock cooler off as one of the screws heads was naff, had to saw top of screw to make a line in it so screwdriver would turn it.

Installed it under the card with a Scythe Kaze White LED 92mm Fan on blowing up towards the card, played css on full settings for 45 mins and temp didnt go above 68º but.................. with no gailforce wind blowing while playing, very much liking the cooler, good buy in my opinion. :D
 
CaNNoN_1981 said:
install was easy i thought, hardest thing for me was taking stock cooler off as one of the screws heads was naff, had to saw top of screw to make a line in it so screwdriver would turn it.

Installed it under the card with a Scythe Kaze White LED 92mm Fan on blowing up towards the card, played css on full settings for 45 mins and temp didnt go above 68º but.................. with no gailforce wind blowing while playing, very much liking the cooler, good buy in my opinion. :D
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:D Glad it went well and that you're seeing the same improvements as mine, the sound drop alone is worth it imo. Annoying about the screw but it's off now.

What's the Kaze like? Especially at full speed, noise etc? Though I guess no real need to run at it at full whack. My Sharkoon runs at 1500rpm and that seems enough for now.

Pics next :)
 
its prob just as noisey as the stock cooler at full whack, about 2800RPM, I tried just to see.

But I have it running at around 1800RPM and I cant even hear it, i'll post some pics this afternoon when I get in from work.
 
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