Passive cooling on an 8500?

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Li'l ol' me

Anyone doing this? Maybe in combination with an exhaust cooler? I'm
striving for silence, but I don't wanna pay for expnsive-ish silent VGA
coolers.

I don't overclock btw- I've had to put heatsinks on the memory chips of my
jetway built card just to stop overheating at stock speeds! The GPU on the
other hand is obviously the same on every card, so I'm sure this question is
fairly generic.
 
ClawJammer said:
I'm not sure what you mean by passive cooling, but one day after I
grabbed my 8500DV's tuner while trying to pull the card out and
literally scorched my fingers, I zip tied an 80mm fan to a pci slot
cover, with the fan blowing right on the tuner. Apparently, the digital
tuner is notorious for prodigious heat production. Afterwards, I can
now touch the tuner, and it's cool to the touch. I don't know if that
helps anything else, save for perhaps the tuner and the longevity of
it's surrounding components.
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I actually meant no fan at all and a bloody big heatsink.
 
Li'l ol' me said:
Anyone doing this? Maybe in combination with an exhaust cooler? I'm
striving for silence, but I don't wanna pay for expnsive-ish silent VGA
coolers.
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I have replaced the fan on my 8500 (about two years ago) with a passive
heatsink:
http://www.zalman.co.kr/english/product/cnpsvga2.htm
I have a silent 80mm Pabst fan @ 7V located above the heatsink to get some
airflow.
The only problem was that the fan was glued to the gpu, making it rather
difficult to replace.

Regards,
Henrik
 
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