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Artic Cooling S1, too good to be true?

Sin_Chase

Sin_Chase

Sin_Chase

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This cooler seems to be so good that I am actually concerned its too good :p

My idles are 35 degrees, but even under full load with 650 on the core, 968 (1936) on the memory and 1625 on the shader I struggle to put it past 41 Degrees C.

Is RivaTuner accurate? I do have 2x120MMs blowing over this thing but... well.. worried the temps are not being read correctly :eek:
 
I fitted one on my 8800GT today and it's running a nice 39C idle, up to 58 in Crysis - 660/980(1960) with the little AC turbo fan things designed to go with it. - taking my temps from nTune

It's a pretty snug fit with my motherboard (P5K) & Case (Centurion5) though - and pretty lucky I'm still using IDE DVD drives, as I have 5 hard drives in there and the S1 renders one of the SATA plugs unreachable (I suppose it could be done with an L-shaped connector)


had a bit of trouble getting some of the ramsinks to stick though - ended up digging out some arctic silver and the epoxy version to mix together.
 
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Yeah I read about the Ramsinks, I bought some thermal tape with the cooler.

I am considering butchering the provided ATi sinks and using them as sinks on the Voltage Regulators. I have active cooling running over the card but the stock heatsink included them and would eb nice to cover them too.
 
Got a S1 on a X1900XT, 12cm fan strapped underneath. 36 idle, under load won't go above 55, and that's with overclocked to 688 in ATI CCC.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Yeah I read about the Ramsinks, I bought some thermal tape with the cooler.

I am considering butchering the provided ATi sinks and using them as sinks on the Voltage Regulators. I have active cooling running over the card but the stock heatsink included them and would eb nice to cover them too.
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if you cool the back of the card pcb side side with a fan, you can cool those parts fine.

edit: also what temperature reading software can i use to see my voltage regulator temps? i cant seem to find where it is in rivatuner or atitool. thanks
 
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Need to use an external thermometer. Someone used a laser one to manually take these readins in the "Official review/overclocking" thread IIRC.

I cool the profile from the back, so it runs down the fins, bewteen the cooler and the card and on the abck side of the card. The Antec 900 is a fantastic case for this kind of solution right out of the box.
 
got one of these for 1950xtx could not get the ram sinks to stick properly sitting in my drawer total waste.

really should buy some thermal tape lol
 
Fitted an S1 to my 1900xt recently and had no problem with the ram sinks.

What I did was to clean first with Arcticlean and immediately after sticking them one sat a heavy book on them for half an hour - careful to lay the card on another book with the bracket just off the end to avoid bending the card.

Had great drops in temps since
 
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