Vga cooler for radeon 9800 and ram heatsink

haryanto4

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my spec:


AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester Integrated into Chip FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor - Retail

EPoX EP-9NDA3J Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard – Retail

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory – Retail

XION Ultimate Engineering XON-002 Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450W Power Supply – Retail

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380013AS 80GB 7200 RPM 8M Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM

radeon 9800 pro 128 mb




the question,.. i need a good vga cooler for my radeon 9800 128mb, any idea?

and anybody know why the radeon can be this freaking hot? i mean it's not like i overclock it, but if you use it with antialiasing, aniso, and high texture it just heating up like rocket,..especially when you play HL2.

and is it true that you actually get ram heatsinks when you buy vga cooler??


well, thanks
 
http://arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=36

and is it true that you actually get ram heatsinks when you buy vga cooler??

In some cases, yes. I've seen a Zalman VGA cooler that included 6 ram heatsinks before.

and anybody know why the radeon can be this freaking hot? i mean it's not like i overclock it, but if you use it with antialiasing, aniso, and high texture it just heating up like rocket,..especially when you play HL2.

How hot is it? Does your card have a temperature sensor?
 
well i don't really have any temperature sensor, the way i test it is by touching the ram carefully. when it's idle it's warm, but after i finished playing my game, especially when i force the card to use the antialias & aniso, it feels hot. I mean you can really feel quite a big difference in temperature.

Oh, and since you mentioned something about temperature sensor, is there anyway you can monitor the temp of your video card?

and by the way, thanks for the arctic cooling link, i heard a lot of people talking about this particular cooler and i guess it's not just a nonsense, let's just hope it's not difficult to put the cooler on,.........is it difficult :confused: ?
 
Oh, and since you mentioned something about temperature sensor, is there anyway you can monitor the temp of your video card?

Well your video card usually ships with a temperature sensor, or it doesn't have one. Mine came with one. I have heard that there are some that are masked or something, and then just just had to flash a new bios and you would have the temperature sensor. You could try googling that.

and by the way, thanks for the arctic cooling link, i heard a lot of people talking about this particular cooler and i guess it's not just a nonsense, let's just hope it's not difficult to put the cooler on,.........is it difficult ?

I'm not sure how hard it is to install it as I haven't bought one of these yet. Try looking around google for some reviews, they'll probably mention something about it.
 
I'm also looking for a 9800 pro 256mb cooler, which is cool because you guys are helping me too with this forum. I was looking at the Arctic Cooling 3 series, which supposedly keeps RAM 6 times cooler than usual and uses ceramic to cool the GPU. I'm not sure if it's compatible with that 9800 128mb but if it is you should look at it. I'm not sure what I should get though, there are heatpipe models without heatsinks for RAM from other companies, and there is Zalmann, which is always a good competitor but I don't know much about them. So what would you guys recommend for a 9800pro 256mb? I'm leaning towards Arctic Cooling.

P.S. I don't want to be rude to ask a question in your forum man, but if I made my own people might think I'm asking the exact same question, and when one of us finds out what's good the other one will too. Thanks.
 
http://www.zalmanusa.com

Check to see if your video card is compatible. The reason I went with Zalman is because it's fairly quiet and the open fin design allows for more surface area to be exposed for better heat dissepation. I was able to overclock my video card from the stock 325/700 to 400/840. I'm sure Arctic Cooling is great, but since I've never used any of their products, I can't say anything about them.
 
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