What to do about my 8800GTX heater!!??

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I've been having a general fiddle with my system and have came to the rather obvious conclusion that the main thing that produces heat in my system is the darn 8800GTX. It's stock cooler keeps the actual card temps ok but even with exhuasting heat from the rear, there's a hell of a heat that radiates up to my CPU cooler... I've been thinking about making some sort of thermal padded sheet to partition the 8800GTX off all together, that way no heat will be able to radiate upward to the cpu and chipset. Anyone else ever tried that? I was gonna make it so the side fan blew air only to the GTX's compartment and put an exhaust fan in the unused PCI card slots at the rear of the case. I have good overall air flow in my case but dispite that, tipping my case on its side (so its like a desktop) and taking the side pannel off drops a good 5-6c off all my temps (bar hard drives)
The alternative is to look for an aftermarket cooler that will shift the heat faster, or perhaps even go down the watercooling route. I could watercool the CPU & North/South bridges and then it would be irrelevant what heat came off the GTX.
Any idea's?
 
i hate the stock heatsinks for GPU they are rubbish at keeping it cool and the distributing the heat. To be fair mate i would get a better heatsink, something by zalman is always a good choice, that way when your side case intake brings are in it's going to good use and also will dramatically reduce temps.
It will however void your warranty, but if you keep all the bits and bobs like screws they wont notice. Thats if you ever send it bk if something goes wrong with it.
 
I've been having a look on OCUK.. Would the Arctic Accelero Xtreme be the best option? Im not really worried about warrenty.. as mine is almost out anyway, and I run the card at stock settings so i'm hoping it will last till my next upgrade! (ocuk branded GTX)
 
akasa or the zalmn vf1000 In my opinion :)

I would stop the heat from escaping how it is currently as you may find the thermals in your case get messed up and everything overheats.
 
The issue is the 8800GTX HSF just before heat goes out the case they decided to put holes for the heat to escape back into the case. My bet is that if you block these holes and direct the heat out of the case you will get better temps. Put a small fan at the back of the case sucking air from the card to assist.
 
:eek: The Zalman VF1000 on the 8800GTX needs their RAM sink kit too.
£59.00 for the two components is a lot of money, anyone got experience of installing this to an 8800GTX?
 
Luffy said:
:eek: The Zalman VF1000 on the 8800GTX needs their RAM sink kit too.
£59.00 for the two components is a lot of money, anyone got experience of installing this to an 8800GTX?
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if you look on the reviews, under dannyo, ive put a link to the zalman site, it shows you how to equip it to any card.
I fitted it to my 8800GT and you do need heat sinks for your ram other wise they start to heat up well to quickly and shapes arent rounded off properly. I know ive tried.
 
If you are needing ram sinks then something isn't right. All you need is a little air flow.

I squeezed 2x 8800GTX cooled with a PA120.1 in Lian Li PC60....overclocked...no ram sinks.
 
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