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Palit/Gainward Custom Coolers on nVidia cards

Even the reference 260 cooler expels most of it's heat inside the case. The only way to keep the inside of any case cool is to have reasonable airflow. Small cases, or few/small intake/outflow fans will not be sufficient for high-end systems.
 
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555BUK said:
Even the reference 260 cooler expels most of it's heat inside the case. The only way to keep the inside of any case cool is to have reasonable airflow. Small cases, or few/small intake/outflow fans will not be sufficient for high-end systems.
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Does it? Mine seems to expel quite a lot of hot air from its rear vents which can only be good for the internal temps of my system. Though I would agree you still need good air flow for the air to be nice and cool going into the cooler on the card.
 
Good air flow is a must for a high end system, you really want a case from a manufacturer well known for the cases cooling ability, which at the moment seems to be Antec at the top, even if they are priced slightly higher than others, but thats because they have a lot of fans pre-installed to keep your precious machine cool at all times.
 
To make the cards cool and quiet, you need a big case such as the Antec 1200, because if you have a smaller case with not many case fans, you will no doubt run into problems, and with these high end systems, the big cases with the case fans are a must
 
I have a big case with good airflow: 2 x 12cm fan (one intake, one out) and the 14cm fan from the PSU. I also have a blower and the front side of the case has a design with many wholes (meshed front panel).

the problem is the card blowing hot air directly to the mobo and the south bridge!

this is the case and I keep it tidy inside:

http://www.coolermaster.com/products/product.php?act=detail&id=30
 
It must be how the case is designed from what I can tell, maybe you should upgrade to something like the Antec 1200? With this case, you will never have any trouble with having hot air blowing straight onto the mobo, and people have been able to overclock even higher with this case alone
 
luismenendez i have the same case and Gainward 260 as you but my card only
blows hot air from the top of the card (where is says Gainward)?
The 330 is a budget case and not really suited for this card.
 
paultino said:
luismenendez i have the same case and Gainward 260 as you but my card only
blows hot air from the top of the card (where is says Gainward)?
The 330 is a budget case and not really suited for this card.
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I know is a budget case but didn't have this problem with a gtx8800 which used to go as high as 90C but the case temps still about 42C thanks to the different heatsink design
 
If your going to go for a high-end card, then to be honest you need a high-end case to go with it, as the cheap, budget cases are not really made for high-end system components, they are more for the low to mid range systems. I know that the Antec 1200 case is quite expensive, but for what you are getting its worth the money, as all the cooling will make your machine last longer, cooler and with more overclocking possibilities
 
I'm on a Leadtek gtx280 here but I thought I'd add my comments regarding the 2D clock issue. I have the same problem with my card, it won't drop down to 2D clocks ever, no matter what. This is with Vista 64 Premium. However, when I was testing the card I had it in the same system but with XP 32bit installed and it flipped between 2D and 3D just fine. I've read elsewhere that this problem is very likely due to how sensitive the 2D/2D detection algorithim is on the card/drivers. I don't profess to fully understand it but it seems in the later nvidia drivers they did something to tighten the tolerance on what the card thinks needs 3D speeds, such that odd progs such as AOL IM make it think it needs to be running at full whack. IE7 has also been mentioned. But from my experience this only happened to me since I changed to Vista 64. I have also read that it could also be related to what PCIe frequency you set in the bios. I have mine set at 110MHz but I haven't yet tested it at default cos I don't want to risk losing the max overclock I've managed to get on the card, since I've also read you get a "free" core overclock just by increasing the pcie bus freq on G200 cards. I'm holding out a fixed driver, probably not any time soon. I'm on water so temps are no problem, but according to gpuZ the VRMs are using 12 amps in normal windows now, when before in XP32 it was using 2 amps. When I actually launch a 3D game however it will go up to well over 50A, so in normal windows it is using 6 times more power than it should. Trouble is I don't know how many watts that is to work out if its worth bothering about.
 
Looks like the older cards have problems which dont seem to be reported until you visit this place, as I didnt know about the 2D/3D speeds staying the same on some models, and the worrying aspect of needing to flash the BIOS before the problem gets sorted out, particularly in Vista.

Im just glad I wont be having the same problem, as it doesnt affect the GTX295 models of card
 
Greebo said:
Does it? Mine seems to expel quite a lot of hot air from its rear vents which can only be good for the internal temps of my system. Though I would agree you still need good air flow for the air to be nice and cool going into the cooler on the card.
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The standard cooler blows some of the heat out of the back, but the heat from the card casing remains within the case. If your case has poor airflow, then the stock cooler will be better but for anyone with decent cooling it really does not make much difference.
 
Looks like the saying here is that if you have a case with really good airflow, buy anything with either reference or custom cooling, but if you have a case that is either small or doesnt have good airflow, go for reference cooling only!
 
I was thinking (not made any research yet) if accelero s1 wouldnt fit on the gainward golden sample. Keep the the original heatsink for mem only change the gpu to accelero s1 and run it with 2 x 120 mm?

Reason is to shut it up. I got a 8800gt with that cooler and a 120 mm on 5v never heard it never been over 55 C. With the 260 fans on 27% i can still hear them.
 
Sometimes having third party coolers is better on the gpu than the stock fans that get supplied, probably because companies just rush them out the door than attach expensive fans. Is there any point buying these types of coolers to the latest GTX cards?
 
Thought I'd post my thoughts into the thread (after all, I did create it!)

Got round to ordering a Gainward GTX 260-216 55m with the twin-fan cooler yesterday that I saw online for a good price (no names), should be arriving today - so much for 3-4 day 'delayed' delivery lol.

Will comment on my own observations with my old stock 4870 512Mb this evening :D
 
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