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The Benifits of Decent Cooling on a 8800GT (Accelero S1)

Not sure a rear fan blowing out is ideal, I'd try and use the front-back airflow. Luckily my 810 has two 12cm fans, granted not deltas but should be enough. 31 idle, doesn't go above 50 (ATI X1900XT 688/783)
 
the picture is showing what its like with the side panel open. imagine the side panel closed on it (hence the red arrows).

technically with the set up closed, the side panel is pushing air onto the card. it works good as well, ive got a degenerative icute case, but with a nice 25cm fan on the side
 
badbob said:
Not sure a rear fan blowing out is ideal, I'd try and use the front-back airflow. Luckily my 810 has two 12cm fans, granted not deltas but should be enough. 31 idle, doesn't go above 50 (ATI X1900XT 688/783)
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Its not a rear blower, pushes air onto the card once side panel is closed.

I have left 3 pci slots on the case open to help remove the warm air... however I'll be raiding the mrs tights later to help filter dust out on the 120mm on the side panel

edit: ergonimcs beat me to it... and yes the pictures terrible! :)

ergonomics said:
the picture is showing what its like with the side panel open. imagine the side panel closed on it (hence the red arrows).

technically with the set up closed, the side panel is pushing air onto the card. it works good as well,
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Neal said:
I have left 3 pci slots on the case open to help remove the warm air... however I'll be raiding the mrs tights later to help filter dust out on the 120mm on the side panel
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Just a word of caution, if those are your 24/7 speeds (sig) your mem is running very high. Few posts scattered about saying >2000 may damage memory. I can go >2050 for benching but playing it safe 24/7 for the moment
 
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Hey Jaws,

No they are max clocks n the sig, running @ 702/1750/1900 for 24/7 useage, the max clocks actually impare the cards results, loosing around 400-700 on 3d mark 06.

Although Everest report GPU RAM temp at 27c idle and 37c load @ max clock...

702/1750/1900 is the sweet spot for my card. :D
 
Hi - this looks good, definitely going to get one of these but I need some info on running with a fan - does the 8800gt have a usable fan header and is it 3 or 4-pin? Or is it better to connect to the motherboard fan header?

Also looking for a recommendation for silent 120mm - Yate Loon seems to come highly recommended - does this need a fan controller to make it silent or will it be OK? :confused:

Thanks!
 
hmm

Hi there, I have an S1 and bought thermal tape but I didn't buy extra ramsinks, are there not enough included? How necessary are the ram sinks anyway, afaik the stock cooler doesn't do anything for ram aside from create airflow (I'll have a fan pointing at gfx card anyway) My card is an evga superclocked).
 
Shash said:
Hi there, I have an S1 and bought thermal tape but I didn't buy extra ramsinks, are there not enough included? How necessary are the ram sinks anyway, afaik the stock cooler doesn't do anything for ram aside from create airflow (I'll have a fan pointing at gfx card anyway) My card is an evga superclocked).
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The S1 comes with 8 ramsinks and the GT has 8 modules. So, as long as you don't loose any you will be fine. I actually had better results running the ram naked (without sinks), but I did have a 12cm blowing cool air onto the card.
 
The S1 is listed in the 8800GT section now and the price has gone up! glad I ordered one yesterday when they were cheaper:D

I have also ordered a 120mm 3pin fan, can I plug this into the header on the GT or will I have to connect it to my mobo.
 
voltage regulators

mart280 said:
The S1 is listed in the 8800GT section now and the price has gone up! glad I ordered one yesterday when they were cheaper:D

I have also ordered a 120mm 3pin fan, can I plug this into the header on the GT or will I have to connect it to my mobo.
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Would someone mind telling me how important it is to put heatsinks on the voltage regulators and if possible put a diagram of where the hottest bits are (that are not ram or gpu), I've got some seperate ones but the sinks are way bigger than the voltage regulators... Looks like it might be a pain to get them on. I've heard they're the smallest and hottest part, all my ram sinks are on and the main cooler is working nicely...

The other thing is that I'd have to take the main cooler off to put the voltage regulator sinks on, its been on there a day, would I have to reapply the thermal paste or can I just leave what I applied yesterday? (PC has been on for a few hours...)

Thanks
 
I've ordered a thermalright hr03-gt

should be here tomorrow, comes will all heatsinks including one for the voltage regulators, will let you know some temps but at the moment mine are around 92 during gaming on 80% fan
 
matthew2456 said:
I've ordered a thermalright hr03-gt

should be here tomorrow, comes will all heatsinks including one for the voltage regulators, will let you know some temps but at the moment mine are around 92 during gaming on 80% fan
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I was idling around 60! Immediately put my custom cooler on and now I get 45 idle and 60 under load completely passively!
 
Apparently the voltage regulators really don't matter, they are soldered to the ground plane of the card which acts as a heatsink, even less of a worry if you have a fan pointing at it o.O I picked up some heatsinks in the hardware store nearby which are nice and small, but I don't think I'm gonna bother putting them on.
 
So they're actually on the bottom of the card then? I might as well put sinks on then as I won't have to take my cooler off! Do you put the sinks on the bottom like it shows?
 
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