Meaningful benefits

HatMan · 7 Oct 2008 at 19:10

Hi All,

My ageing 8800GTS reaches 82°C when playing Crysis. Has anyone has any real world benefits from installing a 120mm fan on the left side of their cases aiming at the card. The other idea I had was to create a duct that channel clean cold air straight into the intake of the fan on the card.

Also my mobo at P35-DQ6 idles at 52°C. Is this because I had to take the cooling copper plate off the underside to install the TT Extreme or because I have crap airflow. My case is a P182.

Thanks

manic111 · 8 Oct 2008 at 11:24

I had an Akasa blower installed just under my graphics card - knocked about 9 or 10 degrees off.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SY-000-GE

domthecondom · 8 Oct 2008 at 13:14

might have to get that :O

HatMan · 8 Oct 2008 at 20:25

10c that's pretty good.

Thanks

Kazz · 8 Oct 2008 at 20:58

Just got one of those blowers myself, looked like a bargain, getting fitted tomorrow alongside a Akasa Vortexx

Raziel1 · 8 Oct 2008 at 23:10

you won't need the blower if you have the vortexx fitted. I put one on my 4850 toxic, which is also slightly oc. idle temps only dropped a couple of degrees, load temps dropped 25-30 degrees.

HatMan · 9 Oct 2008 at 10:03

If I fit a cooler to my 8800GTS 320 it won't fit anything better in the future will it??

What is the best cooler for an aging 8800gts?

Thank you

manic111 · 9 Oct 2008 at 10:41

Raziel1 said:
you won't need the blower if you have the vortexx fitted. I put one on my 4850 toxic, which is also slightly oc. idle temps only dropped a couple of degrees, load temps dropped 25-30 degrees.

Actually that's not a bad point-I had the blower under a 1950pro with only single slot cooling-if you have a dual slot cooler on your card already something else may help you more.

Kazz · 10 Oct 2008 at 00:07

After fitting the Vortexx and having a sound card next to it, there was pretty much no room for the blower in mine, the cooler is huge

. Similar results to Raziel1, idel temps slightly down, but running the Devil May Cry 4 demo on max settings (at 1680x1050), my 8800gt stock cooler got to around 70-80c. With the Vortexx it refuses to get anywhere near hot, 50-55c with fan on 60% (speedfan), just awesome results and its only been fitted for a few hours, also quiet too.

Back to HatMan's first post, i have a 120mm fan on the side of my case that hits the gfx card, doesnt seem to make much of a difference to the gfx card, but does help with the overall temp of the case.