Best cooling options for ATI HD 2900PRO

digitalhater · Oct 22, 2007, 11:03 PM

This thread should contain the best cooling options for the 2900 PRO card as I think is getting real hot sometimes but feel free to add other cooling options for other ATI or nVIDIA GPU's.

digitalhater · Oct 22, 2007, 11:11 PM

By the way, is it normal to have 63C temp on idle on a 2900PRO ? something I should worry about?

Dr. Spankenstein · Oct 22, 2007, 11:14 PM

At stock speeds? Um, yeah that's kinda toasty!

Most would go with either the Thermalright HR-03 R600 for air and the Danger Den DD2900 for water.

Both kick much arse!

Enjoy!

Mediocre · Oct 22, 2007, 11:26 PM

HR-03 R600 Is very nice. Have one dropped it 10-12C
Got it here:
Frozencpu

erocker · Oct 22, 2007, 11:56 PM

Better case airflow and a better PSU would help.

digitalhater · Oct 22, 2007, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr. Spankenstein

At stock speeds? Um, yeah that's kinda toasty!

Most would go with either the Thermalright HR-03 for air and the Danger Den DD2900 for water.

Both kick much arse!

Enjoy!

And what should I do about it? except gettin a new cooler for now?

I have the 8 pin and the 6 pin in the GPU and I'm readin the themp on CCC....

digitalhater · Oct 22, 2007, 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by erocker

Better case airflow and a better PSU would help.

Just bought a new PSU.

http://www.thermaltake.com/product/P...0103/w0103.asp

digitalhater · Oct 23, 2007, 12:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mediocre

HR-03 R600 Is very nice. Have one dropped it 10-12C
Got it here:
Frozencpu

Do one loses warranty if changes the stock cooler?

Mediocre · Oct 23, 2007, 05:00 PM

If you try to RMA it with an aftermarket cooler, yes. But if you remove it, store it, and put it back on to RMA, how would they know? (there aren't any seals on the stock HSF)

erocker · Oct 23, 2007, 05:02 PM

So what is your case fan setup?

KennyT772 · Oct 23, 2007, 05:11 PM

You are horribly CPU bottle necked if you are indeed running an opteron at 2.2ghz. At 2.8 I occasionally bottleneck my x1800 even, overclock that cpu!

For the cooler, get a HR-03-R600, a low speed 92mm fan, remove all pci slot covers and mount a 80mm fan blowing out the rear of the case. That will lower temps by at least 10-20 c idle and maybe 15c load.

DaMulta · Oct 23, 2007, 06:29 PM

http://www.dangerden.com/store/produ...&cat=47&page=1

BTW those temps u are seeing are normal temps.

erocker · Jan 11, 2008, 07:18 PM

Here is a review for the new Accelero Extreme. http://legionhardware.com/document.php?id=713

Oct 22, 2007, 11:03 PM	#1
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Oct 23, 2007, 05:00 PM	#9
Mediocre Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,023 (0.40/day) Thanks: 111 Thanked 81 Times in 74 Posts System Specs	If you try to RMA it with an aftermarket cooler, yes. But if you remove it, store it, and put it back on to RMA, how would they know? (there aren't any seals on the stock HSF)

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