Quiet 6600 cooler?

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Hi,

my case would be almost silent if it weren't for the damned 6600gt stock fan! Its a noisy little thing. Which cooler should I get? It has to be able to maintain temperature when under load (gaming especially) but I want it to be as quiet as possible.

thanks in advance

CP
 
Ok I got the VF700 and installed it. One thing that I do have to ask though is about the contact between the heatsink and the chips. The Geforce 6600gt has two chips beneath its stock heatsink; the main geforce chip and another smaller one located towards the edge of the card. I am not sure what this chip is but upon installing the VF700 there is absolutely no contact between its heatsink and this chip. Is this necessary or should the VF700's fan cool this chip enough?

I was also unable to apply the ram heatsinks to the top side of the card due to the VF700 being in the way. I was able to apply them to its underside, I assume this is not imperitive?
 
Ive been doing a little searching regarding heatsinks for the HSI bridge and I found the Zalman ZM-VHS1 . The snag is this is for installing on cards that had seperate heatsinks for the HSI bridge, however, my card has an all-in-one heatsink & fan. There are no screwholes to mount such a heatsink as the Zalman pictured. Can I simply use epoxy to attach another heatsink. I have some spare ram sinks, would they do?
 
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Captain Planet said:
Ive been doing a little searching regarding heatsinks for the HSI bridge and I found the Zalman ZM-VHS1 . The snag is this is for installing on cards that had seperate heatsinks for the HSI bridge, however, my card has an all-in-one heatsink & fan. There are no screwholes to mount such a heatsink as the Zalman pictured. Can I simply use epoxy to attach another heatsink. I have some spare ram sinks, would they do?
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Yeah mine had a separate heatsink for the HSI bridge. Not sure whether just using epoxy would apply enough pressure as a screw mounted heatsink would provide. Are you sure there aren't any screwholes?

You might be able to get away with using the little ramsinks as the HSI bridge isn't that big. And how did you get the other ramsinks onto the main memory on your AGP 6600GT? The VF700 blocked it on mine.

Which manufacturer made your card?

Edit: here's a pic of the bridge for everyone

bridge6us.jpg
 
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drunknmunky said:
Yeah mine had a separate heatsink for the HSI bridge. Not sure whether just using epoxy would apply enough pressure as a screw mounted heatsink would provide. Are you sure there aren't any screwholes? Which manufacturer made your card?
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School boy error! I just removed the card to find there are actually holes there. I was sure I didnt see any when installing the cooler earlier but clearly I was wrong, so Im now going to purchase the heatsink :)


lay-z-boy said:
Zalman vf-900, no contest at all.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=91246

Dont buy a vf-700 with that comming out...

*edit* sorry, didnt read that you already got the vf700.

Still, sell the vf700 or send it back :P
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Lazy - I bought the 700 off the forums nice and cheap :) I dont intend to fork out extra dollar for a slightly better cooler now. Thanks for the advice anyhows mate.
 
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