X1900xt aftermarket cooler

[buck]

Originally posted by: jadbox1

Originally posted by: jadbox1
i just got the ZALMAN VF900....do i want to use the ram heatsinks the fan came with?

anyone?

Why wouldnt you?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

yes u use them

 

[Remedy]

You also have the alternative of the Thermalright V-1 Ultra for $34.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: Remedy

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: gersson
accelero x2 is quiet just dont use their ram pads -- they have superglue.

What should someone use?

You can use a Thermal Adhevise or you can use a Thermal pad that bonds at high tempeture like ones from HoneyWell.

I think the point is that the ones that come with the X2 stick, so you want to use some pads that are non-adhesive as opposed to the ones that come with it in the event that you would want to remove the X2.

edit: back on topic. Personally, I stick with the stock cooler. It's a tad loud for my taste, but you get used to it. The reason I keep it is because it exhausts the hot air out of the case, whereas all of the aftermarket coolers just push the hot air into the case. With a card that runs as hot as the X1900XT, this is a lot of heat getting dumped into the case.

agreed but if you got a good air flow in your case, the temp rise in the case due to the heat being dumped inside and not outside is fairly minimal isnt it?

i remember seeing a reveiw/investigation into this and i think the cpu temp went up by 1 degree.

however, in my case, the chipset HSF resides just under the 1st PCI-E slot. now with the Accelero blowing the air at the PCI-E slot, i can see all that hot air going right into my chipset fan and making it hotter than it already is

 

[LittleNemoNES]

No doubt about it -- don't use the Accelero X2 ram pads. I actually just bought another one and used the default pink ram pads. Temperatures on my crossfire card (NOT TO MENTION NOISE!) are now identical to my x1900x so it looks like there's no downside from using the default ones over the super glue ones.

There is much to lose with the superglue ones, though. Impossible to remove the cooler without cutting them somehow. Othe folks around the net said they had to cut it but I tried and proved too difficult. Why might you ever want to remove it? To test out a better cooler or to send it back for warranty purposes.


BTW, temps for my mobo went up to 51*C under load but its not such a big deal. My CPU is @ 50*C under load. Cards are now 70 under load as opposed to 65*. The noise was atrocious, though.

 

[shabby]

Have any of you thought aboot the nv5 silencer? It has the same mounting holes as the 7900 cards and the x1900 cards and it exhausts air out of the case. Plus its only 15 bucks at svc.
Once my x1900 comes in i'll give it a test fit.

 

[Bull Dog]

Thermalright V1 Ultra lover here. See project logs in sig.

 

[CP5670]

Is there anything to be gained by sticking with the stock cooler but replacing the default thermal paste on it? I actually don't mind the stock cooler's noise as I use closed headphones when gaming anyway, but it currently loads around 83C with the fan at 80% during games. I wouldn't mind dropping that down a bit if possible.

 

[jadbox1]

ok got my x1900xt yesterday with stock fan it was 50c idle and 75c under load
with the zalman 900 it is 35c idle and 50 under load and quiet as can be...you cant beat that

 

[GreatDaleness]

I ordered a V1-ultra. I'll let everyone know how it turns out compared to stock. Thanks for all the replys.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: mylok
Accelero X2 FTW!

 

[Remedy]

Originally posted by: Golgatha

Originally posted by: mylok
Accelero X2 FTW!

In case you didn't read the last post. He already purchased the Thermalright.

 

[Remedy]

GreatDaleness, any updates on your progress?

 

[darkswordsman17]

Its odd, so many people seem to have different experiences.

For some, the Vf-900 lowers temps, while others it doesn't seem to be able to even keep their card from overheating. Same with the X2.

The thing I don't like about the X2 is that the heat is directed right towards the motherboard. I'm still baffled as to why they haven't just created a much improved Silencer design (something similar to the one the HIS IceQ uses) where its all copper and heatpipe. Although it seems like thats not even that great from what I've seen in reviews, which seems odd as I've seen people modify NV5 Silencers for the X1900 and it improved temps and was much quiter.

The Thermalright seems to be the only one that I haven't seen a bad review for, although most people pass on it (due to cost and the fact that you'd have to choose your own fan, which is both its greatest strength and biggest weakness).

 

[Remedy]

The Thermalright seems to be the only one that I haven't seen a bad review for, although most people pass on it (due to cost and the fact that you'd have to choose your own fan, which is both its greatest strength and biggest weakness).

It comes with a single fan of suppled by TR. It has the option of using *2* fans. 1 on the front and 1 on the reverse side.

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

I've tried three heatsinks for my X1900XT. The stock cooler @ 100% fan speed, the Sytrin KuForumla Plus, and the Thermalright V-1 Ultra (with two fans). And as far as I'm concerned there hasn't been much difference between the three performance wise, though the V1 Ultra seems to be slightly better than the Sytrin from my experience. The main difference was noise. The V-1 Ultra is very annoying to install though so I wouldn't exactly recommend it when you can get the Kuformula Plus and get around the same level of performance (though I had to lap the base).

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: Remedy

The Thermalright seems to be the only one that I haven't seen a bad review for, although most people pass on it (due to cost and the fact that you'd have to choose your own fan, which is both its greatest strength and biggest weakness).

It comes with a single fan of suppled by TR. It has the option of using *2* fans. 1 on the front and 1 on the reverse side.

Thanks for the correction.

 

[shabby]

I tell you the nv5 silencer has a million and one uses, it fit on my 7900gt and it fits on the x1900.

http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx2yd7.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx3el9.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx4ai4.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx5tb3.jpg

Temps are around 5c cooler then the stock cooler, but the fan is dead silent. The only downfall is that the heatsink on the pwm ic gets no airflow so it limits gpu overclocks a bit. The memory chips dont make full contact since they're oriented differently but that hasnt affected the memory overclock.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: shabby
I tell you the nv5 silencer has a million and one uses, it fit on my 7900gt and it fits on the x1900.

http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx2yd7.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx3el9.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx4ai4.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx5tb3.jpg

Temps are around 5c cooler then the stock cooler, but the fan is dead silent. The only downfall is that the heatsink on the pwm ic gets no airflow so it limits gpu overclocks a bit. The memory chips dont make full contact since they're oriented differently but that hasnt affected the memory overclock.

You could actually probably mod it so that it would pull air from around there. The ICEQ cooler on the HIS card has small openings under the fan to do just that.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: shabby
I tell you the nv5 silencer has a million and one uses, it fit on my 7900gt and it fits on the x1900.

http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx2yd7.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx3el9.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx4ai4.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx5tb3.jpg

Temps are around 5c cooler then the stock cooler, but the fan is dead silent. The only downfall is that the heatsink on the pwm ic gets no airflow so it limits gpu overclocks a bit. The memory chips dont make full contact since they're oriented differently but that hasnt affected the memory overclock.

You could actually probably mod it so that it would pull air from around there. The ICEQ cooler on the HIS card has small openings under the fan to do just that.

True that, the IceQ3 cooler on my HIS card is a beast, the air it pushes out amazes me.

 

[sodcha0s]

Originally posted by: shabby
I tell you the nv5 silencer has a million and one uses, it fit on my 7900gt and it fits on the x1900.

http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx2yd7.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx3el9.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx4ai4.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx5tb3.jpg

Temps are around 5c cooler then the stock cooler, but the fan is dead silent. The only downfall is that the heatsink on the pwm ic gets no airflow so it limits gpu overclocks a bit. The memory chips dont make full contact since they're oriented differently but that hasnt affected the memory overclock.

Let us know how long it takes to fry your memory with that setup, thanks!

 

[Praxis1452]

Originally posted by: sodcha0s

Originally posted by: shabby
I tell you the nv5 silencer has a million and one uses, it fit on my 7900gt and it fits on the x1900.

http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx2yd7.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx3el9.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx4ai4.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x1900xtx5tb3.jpg

Temps are around 5c cooler then the stock cooler, but the fan is dead silent. The only downfall is that the heatsink on the pwm ic gets no airflow so it limits gpu overclocks a bit. The memory chips dont make full contact since they're oriented differently but that hasnt affected the memory overclock.

Let us know how long it takes to fry your memory with that setup, thanks!

The memory will be fine... memory doesn't need to be cooled that much.Just a little airflow by it and it should be fine. I mean ramsinks work just fine.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: jadbox1

Originally posted by: jadbox1
i just got the ZALMAN VF900....do i want to use the ram heatsinks the fan came with?

anyone?

Why wouldnt you?

they fall off easy putting the card back in my PC, 2 of them fell off on their own, and 2 fell off when my sata cable brushed against them. And I think I knocked one off with my fat fingers. I couldn't find Artic Ceramiq(sp?) at any local pc shop, and with no other way to get them to stick (they keep falling off when I tried to re-attach them, to the point they have no stick left at all) I gave up. Unless you're overclocking you don't need them. But if you have them, there's no reason not to try to put them on. Just be careful. I think 1 actually bonded with my card

 

[sodcha0s]

Praxis: Yeah, that's the point. Look closer and you'll see the ram is under the copper HS, and there is a gap. How is air supposed to flow across those mem chips? Also, every cooler whether stock or add-on either makes direct contact with the ram, or supplies seperate sinks for them. Leaving it like that is not good.

 

[LordGestle]

Interesting. I would not leave mine like that either but it looks easy enough to mod with a dremel to add the slots similar to the ICEQ for PWM as well as cut out the arms for the memory and add your own memory sinks.
I may need to try this.