Geforce 8k-9K Series Clubhouse

[tkpenalty]

I disagree. Cooler is always better. And if you throttle the fan down, it won't be noisy at all. I view it as preparing the card for volt modding. lol.

9800GTX is nice for vmodding with the extra phases

 

[Wile E]

9800GTX is nice for vmodding with the extra phases

I know I wouldn't mind trying my hands at it. lol.

 

[tkpenalty]

I know I wouldn't mind trying my hands at it. lol.

With more phases... less worry of the phases exploding when jacking up the volts. I suppose that's the good thing about the 9800GTX. Downside is that I reckon the cooler sucks more than the 8800GTS 512MB one... the 9800GTX's one apparently doesn't have a heatpipe and a louder, and faster fan. Compared to the 8800GTS 512MB with the triple heatpipe with a almost silent fan.

 

[Wile E]

With more phases... less worry of the phases exploding when jacking up the volts.

I'm aware of that. But keeping them cooler still provides a higher margin of safety.

 

[wolf]

agreed WileE, more cooling is always better, and the fan is inaudible over the system anyway. i also agree that it leaves a higher margin of safety, especially since i WILL be vmodding, soon to come boys

and i do believe the 9800GTX cooler is the same as the G92GTS one, except with more plastic, and i can confirm it does indeed have heatpipes (can post pics) , and yes a faster fan. correct me if im wrong but its an OEM cooler from coolermaster, so all they changed was the plastic covering to suit the longer pcb on the GTX, and made the same fan run harder.

 

[tkpenalty]

agreed WileE, more cooling is always better, and the fan is inaudible over the system anyway. i also agree that it leaves a higher margin of safety, especially since i WILL be vmodding, soon to come boys

and i do believe the 9800GTX cooler is the same as the G92GTS one, except with more plastic, and i can confirm it does indeed have heatpipes (can post pics) , and yes a faster fan. correct me if im wrong but its an OEM cooler from coolermaster, so all they changed was the plastic covering to suit the longer pcb on the GTX, and made the same fan run harder.

I don't understand, why are the temps higher then? How many heatpipes? One? Two? Three? Photos of what you mentioned would be a good idea .

Yes these coolers are manufactured and distributed by Coolermaster themselves.

 

[wolf]

well it definitely has at least one i can plainly see, but it should be the same as the GTS one.

and temps were never an issue with the cooler, only noise, hec the VF-1000 barely keeps it 5 degrees cooler.

EDIT: i can definitely see two in there (heatpipes), but i wont be able to take a conclusive picture for you till i can get the plastic off, which may not be today.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

just thought I would share this with you

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=6492408

 

[tkpenalty]

VF900... hmm.... so tempting to replace the cooler.

 

[tkpenalty]

And indeed I have

Took off the ramsinks off the rear-side mosfets... totally redundant.

Do you guys agree with me... every "upgrade" I make looks more like a downgrade compare that to this

EDIT: Switching back to accelero.... not impressed by temps, nor the noise.

 

[ShadowFold]

Looks like I will be joining soon with my PALiT 8800GT 1gb coming soon

 

[PrudentPrincess]

About to send my 8800gt in for a 9800gtx! Thought you should know.

 

[Solaris17]

hey TK i just wanted to thank you for my titles in opost #1 im happy that im recognized as such without asking...and im getting my new rig in about 2 days iv gone through 3 in about a week but after i settle in ill run smoe more benchies and stuff kick this place up a bit whatya say?

 

[tkpenalty]

About to send my 8800gt in for a 9800gtx! Thought you should know.

I guess thats one of the best things about EVGA... extremely generous.

Now switched back to accelero, this time using AS5 instead of the awful thermalright TIM (I accidentally screwed up the stock TIM). Geez the VF900CU looked nice though note: I've heatsinked almost every MOSFET on the 8800 .. i love spare ramsinks

 

[tkpenalty]

hey TK i just wanted to thank you for my titles in opost #1 im happy that im recognized as such without asking...and im getting my new rig in about 2 days iv gone through 3 in about a week but after i settle in ill run smoe more benchies and stuff kick this place up a bit whatya say?

Thats a LOT of money down the drain! Good luck man! Grabbing a 9800GTX? Remember it has a 4+2 phase setup...you know what that means! Voltmods!!!

 

[Solaris17]

haha i wish no im going to keep dual 9600's for right now...but iv gone through about 3 diff mobo's and 3 diff procs and 1 promary HDD im going to settle with the e6400

 

[tkpenalty]

haha i wish no im going to keep dual 9600's for right now...but iv gone through about 3 diff mobo's and 3 diff procs and 1 promary HDD im going to settle with the e6400

Good luck man! Dual 9600GTs are a better choice tho. (Voltmod much?). Its good you're going with an new CPU instead of the old Athlon. What board are u using tho? I'd say you'd need at least 3.2Ghz ish to get the best out of two of the cards..

I noticed something funny, the VF900CU gets mowed by the AcceleroS1 by 11*C for load temps.. for this school assignment the results were as follows:

VF900CU AS5
Run 1~5: Idle 44*C Load 67*C
(Temps were 1+-*C off for each run)

AcceleroS1 AS5
Run 1~5: Idle 38*C Load 55*C <<< LOL.

It surprises me that the VF900CU costs around $10 more yet performs far worse in contrast. Lulz. At least I got it for free (and those ramsinks were nice).

 

[Solaris17]

ya i vmod been pushing the cards for awhile now

im going to run an e6400 tested at 3.5Ghz
and im going to run it on a Asus P5N-E SLI

and to cool the proc a Coolermaster Hyper TX2 with a vantec tornado


and im going to slap MX-2 on everything from the proc and graphics to my phisics and NB

 

[tkpenalty]

ya i vmod been pushing the cards for awhile now

im going to run an e6400 tested at 3.5Ghz
and im going to run it on a Asus P5N-E SLI

and to cool the proc a Coolermaster Hyper TX2 with a vantec tornado


and im going to slap MX-2 on everything from the proc and graphics to my phisics and NB

Replace that NB cooler, and get cooling for the CPU phases.

 

[MKmods]

Yee Haaa another club..Hey guys whats up?

+1 More vote for Acceleros, I finally put my 2 9600GTs to use, Amazing temps fun to game with.

 

[tkpenalty]

Yee Haaa another club..Hey guys whats up?

+1 More vote for Acceleros, I finally put my 2 9600GTs to use, Amazing temps fun to game with.

Photo man

 

[Solaris17]

w0ooooooooottttt new score 14k+ 3d06

 

[tkpenalty]

Damn gigabyte I need to push them to rewrite their program to allow 1.3, or even 1.4v >=(.... and vmem control. Oh yeah Solaris 17, you know how to mod programs right? May you please modify the Gigabyte's Gamer HUD so it can push the volts up to like 1.35v? (Tkpenalty wants to have moar performance MOAR!!!)

Sidenote: DX10 hack for Crysis... 4 FPS per second with 4xAA @ 1280x960.. shocking...I mean the image quality . Geez, @ very high, AA makes such a HUGE difference!

EDIT: are you serious with ur results?

 

[Wile E]

It might be a hardware limitation too, tk.

 

[Solaris17]

hmm idk link to prog?