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Best cooler for G92 8800GTS

Janesy B

Janesy B

Janesy B

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My new 8800gts is too hot for my liking. can someone recomend a good and easy to fit aftermarket cooler for around £30?
 
no need getting aftermarket cooler, if you keeping it stock i mean, the stock cooler is more than good enough, how hot you getting?
 
something like 68 on idle. the stock cooler is noisy and my system is now 10% warmer so i need a better cooling solution
 
Janesy B said:
something like 68 on idle. the stock cooler is noisy and my system is now 10% warmer so i need a better cooling solution
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68?! mine idles (with stock cooler) at 49*C with core at 720Mhz, 68 seems way on the hot side, is it running at stock speed?
 
i've used riva tune to put the fan on 50% constant with seems to cool it down a bit but the card has gotten hot enough to hurt my hand when touching the back plate
 
Janesy B said:
i've used riva tune to put the fan on 50% constant with seems to cool it down a bit but the card has gotten hot enough to hurt my hand when touching the back plate
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wow, thats worrying, though my ram modules have been hot enough to be untouchable after a good stint on crysis, if thats the case then maybe your right and its time for a new cooler, in which case the AC accelero will be brilliant choice, chuck one of them on with some AS5 and a nice quiet 120mm fan and your temperatures will plummit :) plus fitting aftermarket coolers is generally pretty painless, best experiences personally are with zalman coolers
 
im not too concerned about the GPU itself, but the impact that the extra heat is creating is my main worry. if i can cool the card down to a nice level, the rest of the system will be cooler.

Do i need an ddr ram heatsinks or will the acellero do the job on its own?

Load temps reach 78C, thats the actual core temps i'm using here, not the ambient or GPU Ram temps.
 
A better cooler will not eliminate heat....when you cool something all you do is move the heat away from the heatsource.

If anything, a better cooler would increase internal case temps because the stock one spews heat out of the case while aftermarket ones dump it inside the case.
 
you're missing the point a bit here. the stock cooler isn't coping well with dispersing with the extra heat so it just mounts up on the PCB, i want to extract the heat away from the card effectively and exhaust it from the system. I have modded my case for extra airflow, all i need is to tame the GPU and im happy
 
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In that case if you have space then the Accelero S1 + turbo modules or 120mm fan will do an excellent job
 
In my opinion you don't need ramsinks. I use them though because:

A) They look purdy
B) They are cheap
C) Gives peace of mind

As we move on to GDDR5 I'm thinking ramsinks will be a think of the past.
 
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