help with duorb cooler

liamcrane

liamcrane

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i have just bought myself a new thermaltake duorb vga cooler for my 8800GTS, fitted it no probs but must admit the heatsinks didnt seem like they would stay on very well but so far so good, my idle temp is now 43c from 53c with the stock cooler, the thing was just played crysis and the temp shot up to 76c and it never went that high with the stock cooler on with the fans at 85%, the duorb is a molex connection so the fan is 100% all the time just dont understand why it was running so hot when i was playing?

any ideas?
 
i did re-seat it again, im using artic silver paste and i know you dont need a lot of it, its quite hard to seat it tho cos when you turn it upside down to screw it in its not very even so maybe like you say its no seated properly
 
Its the only thing i can think off at the moment as to why its worse then the stock one.

As iv never fitted an aftermarket cooler on my gpu its the only thing i can think of, but hopefully some others will post and offer some advice.
 
The Duorb isn't a very good cooler.

The duorb is cooler at idle because the stock fan would use a much lower fan speed with no load and and then increase it when required.

I would consider the Accelero S1 and a 120mm fan if I were you.
 
ok thanks for the input guys one of the main reasons i was looking for an aftermarket cooler was my fan stopped spining and the card overheated really bad, all the heatsinks just melted so i had to remove the cooler cos i really thought it was gonna catch a light, found out one of the fan pins had come off, with it being a BFG card tho would i be able to rma the card do you think? if i cant im either gonna upgrade my card or look at a zalman cooler
 
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