Hey, I'm looking at low-cost ways to improve my rig. Hard drives are one place it's problematic, but the second most irritating thing is the 8800GT.
It's speed is fine at the moment, I only play relatively old games and it'll blitz counter strike etc with 100fps+ and will handle Crysis etc on lower settings, but it's bloody noisy.
For starters it's a single-slot card, and it's fairly dusty (2nd hand), although it doesn't seem to be getting ridiculously hot. It's too loud for me though, so I fancy a cooler.
That Vortex one seems to be recommended a lot, but it's a major part of my rig that it's 100% light-free where possible. There's an LED on the motherboard I can't see, and the CD drive has a little light, but that's it. I really don't want a blue monstrosity sat in the middle of my rig, I have to sleep in the same room (also the noise point)
So, any coolers that are relatively good on an 8800GT and have no LEDs etc? I'd prefer it to be fairly easy to fit too, since I've never messed around with a GPU like this.
It's speed is fine at the moment, I only play relatively old games and it'll blitz counter strike etc with 100fps+ and will handle Crysis etc on lower settings, but it's bloody noisy.
For starters it's a single-slot card, and it's fairly dusty (2nd hand), although it doesn't seem to be getting ridiculously hot. It's too loud for me though, so I fancy a cooler.
That Vortex one seems to be recommended a lot, but it's a major part of my rig that it's 100% light-free where possible. There's an LED on the motherboard I can't see, and the CD drive has a little light, but that's it. I really don't want a blue monstrosity sat in the middle of my rig, I have to sleep in the same room (also the noise point)
So, any coolers that are relatively good on an 8800GT and have no LEDs etc? I'd prefer it to be fairly easy to fit too, since I've never messed around with a GPU like this.
