Whats the best cooling for ATI9800pro

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Frank

I have the 9800Pro (system congfig below) and was wondering what all of your
opionions are reguarding cooling for my GPU. There is so much on the
available on the market, that I thought I'd come to the people who really
know.
Please advise.



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P4 3.20E HT
ABIT IS7-E
1 gig Corsair Ram
ATI 9800Pro
WD 160gig SATA
DSL Internet Connection
ETC......
 
VGA Silencer.... I am very satisfied with it on my 9700pro card....I
paid $19 for mine...It is DEFINATELY a winner and at $15!!!!!!
VERY easy to install as well!
 
VGA Silencer.... I am very satisfied with it on my 9700pro card....I
paid $19 for mine...It is DEFINATELY a winner and at $15!!!!!!
VERY easy to install as well!
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Just put one on my 9700Pro today, bloody amazing. Its the Hercules version
so I had to pull the rear heatsink off first, also removed the shim, sweat
was pissing off me in case I bollocked it up!

Crazy thing is, even my memory overclock has gone up with this!

PC World sell them in the UK for around £10, believe it or not. Not sure
which revision.
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Les
AMD64 3200+
2x512 MB corsair platinum 3500
Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP
Herc 9700 Pro
SB Audigy
 
This is great information. Just one question, Considering that I have 3
Tornado fans in my case and that a quiet fan is not important to me, is this
still your number one choice?
 
YEP....still number one!!! I have 5 case fans and the main object for
me was better cooling!
 
This is great information. Just one question, Considering that I have 3
Tornado fans in my case and that a quiet fan is not important to me, is this
still your number one choice?
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You might take a look at the FanCard. It's about $19 and fits in a
pci slot next to your video card or over one if you've got space. It
has two 70mm fans on it and it just blows air all over the working
side of your video card. There's a speed adjust slider on the pci
slot cover, but it works even better if you hook it up to a 5" bay fan
controller like the sunbeam rheobus which allows you to switch it off
completely. Runs off a drive connector by the way.

If moving the hot air out of the case isn't important and noise isn't
important; and it sounds like that's the situation with your PC, then
the fan card will cool all the components on the GPU side of your
video card at once. When you turn it up, it really moves some air.

The advantage is that you wouldn't have to change anything on your
video card. Just leave the stock heatsink/fan there.

Oh and the blue LED's are pretty cool. Looks like a couple of gas
burners under your video card.
 
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