Quiet 6600 cooler?

RoboCod · 24 Feb 2006 at 07:52

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

RoboCod · 4 Mar 2006 at 19:53

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?

RoboCod · 4 Mar 2006 at 19:57

A quick search and I can confirm it is the HSI bridge chip

RoboCod · 4 Mar 2006 at 21:33

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?

RoboCod · 4 Mar 2006 at 22:05

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?

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

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.

RoboCod · 4 Mar 2006 at 22:07

drunknmunky - only placed the heatsinks on the underside mate, like you said the cooler blocked them on top

EDIT: The manufacturer woould be Xpertvision to

RoboCod · 4 Mar 2006 at 22:33

drunknmunky said:
How did you do that? There aren't any memory modules on the back of the card.

Like so...

like this card - the ram modules are outlined on the rear on my card