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How are you cooling your graphics card? got something special/different? show it off.

My HD 4830s with ZEROtherm CoolMaxx 2000s.

The fans are spinning. :D

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Patches O'Houlihan said:
Hey LAN, how are the temps with the Icy Vision? I thought about picking up the Zalman VF3000F from Directron.com, but would like a cheaper alternative.
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I'd skip the gelid, as I understand it it can have mounting issues depending on the brand of 470 you have, as not all brands have the same height IHS.
 
i just ripped the fans off my accelero twin turbo cos they died...

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bear jesus said:
the ram sinks on the second card look awesome, did they come with the hsf or did you buy them separate?
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I was waiting for someone to notice that. :)

I bought the coolers a few months apart. Same models, but with different heatsinks. Either because the were found to work better or just due to supply issues. Don't remember which came first.

Guess I could have gotten replacements so they would be the same, but works well enough and gives the cards an eclectic look. ;) :cool:
 
PopcornMachine said:
I was waiting for someone to notice that. :)

I bought the coolers a few months apart. Same models, but with different heatsinks. Either because the were found to work better or just due to supply issues. Don't remember which came first.

Guess I could have gotten replacements so they would be the same, but works well enough and gives the cards an eclectic look. ;) :cool:
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To be honest i prefer the two different styles, even more so as the top card is usually hotter due to pulling hot air from the back of the second card so bigger on top and smaller on bottom should work best plus look good, it kind of makes me think of space invaders :laugh:

I wish i had more options when i comes to ram sinks as i always touch different components/chips when i get new hardware and anything that gets hot gets them not just the memory chips. although the memory chips are usually cooler than the other things i add them onto :laugh:
 
Flanker said:
i just ripped the fans off my accelero twin turbo cos they died...
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About to do the same on my gelid. Something is wrong with the fan bearings and once again gelid support is ignoring me. So I'm just going to rig up my own 92mm fan array. Will post when done. I think it'll look pretty slick.
 
LAN_deRf_HA said:
About to do the same on my gelid. Something is wrong with the fan bearings and once again gelid support is ignoring me. So I'm just going to rig up my own 92mm fan array. Will post when done. I think it'll look pretty slick.
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Nice, looking forward to seeing it.

When i got my zalman vf1000 i pulled off the fan before the first install as to me is it seamed stupid having so much surface area with so little airflow so mainly ran it with 2 80mm fans tied to it and another 80mm fan over the vrm's although as you can see in the first post i have tryed some other fans on it :laugh:
 
bear jesus said:
To be honest i prefer the two different styles, even more so as the top card is usually hotter due to pulling hot air from the back of the second card so bigger on top and smaller on bottom should work best plus look good, it kind of makes me think of space invaders :laugh:

I wish i had more options when i comes to ram sinks as i always touch different components/chips when i get new hardware and anything that gets hot gets them not just the memory chips. although the memory chips are usually cooler than the other things i add them onto :laugh:
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Thing is, I may be getting a new graphics card shortly. They work OK, but a HD 6870 would be better.

Wonder if these ZeroTherms will fit on a 6800, or even a 6900. :D

Brings up a question though. How does one remove stickon heatsinks like these? Never done it, and afraid prying would damage the card.
 
PopcornMachine said:
Thing is, I may be getting a new graphics card shortly. They work OK, but a HD 6870 would be better.

Wonder if these ZeroTherms will fit on a 6800, or even a 6900. :D

Brings up a question though. How does one remove stickon heatsinks like these? Never done it, and afraid prying would damage the card.
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MY zalman fits the 6800 without even having to change the location of the mounting screws so i would assume the zerotherm fits, the stuck on heatsinks are a bit scary to remove sometimes they just don't want to move, i normally just gently twist side to side while pulling for a while and they come away eventually but you need new thermal pads to apply them to another card.

I have to admit going from a single 4870 to a single 6870 and tripling my res still improved my frame rates a lot, never mind both of them together :laugh:
 
bear jesus said:
MY zalman fits the 6800 without even having to change the location of the mounting screws so i would assume the zerotherm fits, the stuck on heatsinks are a bit scary to remove sometimes they just don't want to move, i normally just gently twist side to side while pulling for a while and they come away eventually but you need new thermal pads to apply them to another card.

I have to admit going from a single 4870 to a single 6870 and tripling my res still improved my frame rates a lot, never mind both of them together :laugh:
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That's what I though. Thanks.

It's been two years with these cards. Time for an upgrade. :toast:
 
PopcornMachine said:
That's what I though. Thanks.

It's been two years with these cards. Time for an upgrade. :toast:
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i had around 2 years out of my 4870 and it was showing it's age with newer games, whatever you upgrade to should give you a very nice boost in fps but i would suggest waiting a few weeks until the 6970 is out as for one it may help drop the prices on other card or it could be the card to buy if the price and power is good enough.

I'm hoping the 6970 is worth it as if it is then i will be selling off my 4870 and 2 6870s and hoping that would fully cover the cost so i can use my saved money for an ssd :D
 
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I got two of these for my 5870s.

Thinking about moving to the Arctic Cooling TT Pro since I would be able to connect the fans in to the card fan header and control the fans from there. I don't know why Zalman couldn't use some pwm circuit since they were able to do it with the Zotac AMP! cards.
 
mastrdrver said:
I got two of these for my 5870s.

Thinking about moving to the Arctic Cooling TT Pro since I would be able to connect the fans in to the card fan header and control the fans from there. I don't know why Zalman couldn't use some pwm circuit since they were able to do it with the Zotac AMP! cards.
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I must admit i liked the idea of the vf3000 when i saw the previews but i'm almost defiantly getting an arctic cooling accelero extreme or thermalright shaman when i go back to a single card setup.

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That looks so good while up and running, i must admit I'm jealous :p
 
bear jesus said:
I must admit i liked the idea of the vf3000 when i saw the previews but i'm almost defiantly getting an arctic cooling accelero extreme or thermalright shaman when i go back to a single card setup.
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Don't get me wrong, performance is impressive. Vrms were always below 80C running Furmark with the GPU below 70C with 1.225v with the fans at full blast. At that voltage I could run 950mhz on the core no problem. At idle it would get to about 30C on the core and vrms even with the fans turned all the way down with the Fan Mate 2.
 
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Don't get me wrong, performance is impressive. Vrms were always below 80C running Furmark with the GPU below 70C with 1.225v with the fans at full blast. At that voltage I could run 950mhz on the core no problem. At idle it would get to about 30C on the core and vrms even with the fans turned all the way down with the Fan Mate 2.
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I agree the performance of the vf3000 is nothing to complain about as it does do it's job well on both the ATI 58xx and nvidia 4xx cards but i just can't help but love the looks and performance of the accelero extreme and the shaman, although i would like to see more reviews of the thermalright shaman.

I would love it if TPU could get a shaman to review.
 
the garbage ties are leet!!!
 
bear jesus said:
I agree the performance of the vf3000 is nothing to complain about as it does do it's job well on both the ATI 58xx and nvidia 4xx cards but i just can't help but love the looks and performance of the accelero extreme and the shaman, although i would like to see more reviews of the thermalright shaman.

I would love it if TPU could get a shaman to review.
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With all the bad press the vrm cooler from Arctic Cooler get I was actually thinking of using the Zalman units since they performed so well. The TT Pro vrm heat sinks look lacking from what I've seen.
 
Just for the sake of contributing.

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This image doesn't show all I did, as when I tried to fit it all together the end tips of the heat pipes hit the fins on the left side. So I had to go back and cut the middle fins flush about halfway along their length. Put the green blob there to show where I had to cut, roughly.

Edit* And yeah obviously I had to cut a large square section out around the core.

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