How do you cool your x1900/x1800??

Rain Man · 24 May 2006 at 13:51

Ive got a vf900 on my x1800xt bit its stopped my card from exhausting the heat out the case and my cpu clock is slighhtly more unstable

how do you cool yours?

are the artic coolers any good?

cheers

Minstadave · 24 May 2006 at 13:59

Aquaextreme MP-1 Waterblock, under 40 degrees load with the card flashed to PE.

PucK · 24 May 2006 at 14:02

artic are superb, on both 1800 and 1900

FreeStream · 24 May 2006 at 14:07

At 80% fan speed on stock cooler lol

Loud, but not really loud enough to disrupt gaming

Rain Man · 24 May 2006 at 14:33

PucK said:
artic are superb, on both 1800 and 1900

but its only them aero 8 things which are available isnt it? they arent quite by a long way according to reviews

Minstadave · 24 May 2006 at 14:41

Rain Man said:
but its only them aero 8 things which are available isnt it? they arent quite by a long way according to reviews

Do you mean the Accelero coolers? I'd heard they were very quiet.

Rain Man · 24 May 2006 at 14:42

Minstadave said:
Do you mean the Accelero coolers? I'd heard they were very quiet.

yeh sorry them ones

roadie · 24 May 2006 at 14:53

I have just received a Thermalright V1 Ultra for my x1900xt. The stock cooler is too noisy both under 2D and 3D. The V1 Ultra will be fitted with a Zalman 80x15mm fan at 5V on the GPU side and an Acoustifan 80x25mm fan on the rear, which will be under the control of my Akasa front panel fan controller/memory card reader. I am expecting silence when under 2D and much, much less noise under 3D.

I considered the Accelero but it's really designed for BTX and I wasn't keen for my PCI cards to have to endure massively hot air from it.

MichaelHo · 24 May 2006 at 15:20

i jus installed the vf900 on my x1900xtx and on load it still goes to 91degree :S
can the card take this temperature?
on idle its around 40degrees.

im very disappointed with these temps to say the least.

PucK · 25 May 2006 at 14:00

that dont sound like its fitted correctly to me. with my Accelero it pumps hot air on the board but ive got a big fan pumping it out

LoadsaMoney · 25 May 2006 at 15:16

When you plug it in the fan spins.

toxic · 25 May 2006 at 15:17

how do you cool yours?

1900XT-X with stock cooler and stock fan settings. It hardly goes abot 40-50 fan load so no big deal.

Darkwave · 25 May 2006 at 15:21

X1800XT with Zalman VF900-Cu. Hot air is not a problem with me since the front of my case is a dotted grille, the side window has an 80mm fan for an intake, and the rear of the case has two 80mm fans for exhausts.

Cuchulain · 25 May 2006 at 15:27

Rain Man said:
Ive got a vf900 on my x1800xt bit its stopped my card from exhausting the heat out the case and my cpu clock is slighhtly more unstable

how do you cool yours?

are the artic coolers any good?

cheers

Arctic Accelero X2, no-way NEAR as good as people make out and the temps are only a few degree's lower than with the stock cooler, at min. RPM it's actually slightly noisier than the stock cooler too.

Shocky-FM · 25 May 2006 at 15:53

MichaelHo said:
i jus installed the vf900 on my x1900xtx and on load it still goes to 91degree :S
can the card take this temperature?
on idle its around 40degrees.

im very disappointed with these temps to say the least.

Same here with the VF900 and even the X2... Some cards just run hotter then others and the coolers really can't handle it.

Not to worry though as long as it still works ok.

I'm currently using the X2 as its impossible to remove without killing the card... I can get load upto 93C, Zalman was 92C and stock was around 95C.. There overrated but they are silent which is nice.

PucK · 25 May 2006 at 17:46

Cuchulain said:
Arctic Accelero X2, no-way NEAR as good as people make out and the temps are only a few degree's lower than with the stock cooler, at min. RPM it's actually slightly noisier than the stock cooler too.

LOL have you got one? if you have its duff. its well silent at 100% plus it knocks off about 20c underload

Cuchulain · 25 May 2006 at 19:05

PucK said:
LOL have you got one? if you have its duff. its well silent at 100% plus it knocks off about 20c underload

Not compared to my old stock cooler, that was around 55-60 degrees under load, the X2 is between 55 and 65, the fan is also noisier than the stock one as it increases in speed. I should have known better, I had this sort of problem with the Freezer 64 and the rev 2 ATI 4 previously.

lay-z-boy · 26 May 2006 at 00:12

x1900xtx 750/850

mcw60 - 35 idle 40 load

rad is an mcr-220 and im cooling an x2 @ 2.75 with 24/7 folding.

smit101 · 26 May 2006 at 03:51

XTX with an acetal top maze4 here,haven't paid particuarly close attention to temps as yet but the card is very stable at max clocks allowed by ati overdrive in the ccc,690/800 I think.Will be pushing it further when I decide on an overclocking app,I didn't get on with 'ATI Tool'.Any suggestions chaps?

lay-z-boy · 26 May 2006 at 23:28

smit101 said:
XTX with an acetal top maze4 here,haven't paid particuarly close attention to temps as yet but the card is very stable at max clocks allowed by ati overdrive in the ccc,690/800 I think.Will be pushing it further when I decide on an overclocking app,I didn't get on with 'ATI Tool'.Any suggestions chaps?

ati tool