X1900XT noise levels

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Hello All,
I have returned to the ATI fold after a while with Nvidia, not that I
particularly favour one brand over the other, just that I like to get the
best performance for my hard earned. 9700Pro is still serving well, and
6800GT is still going good. My question is as follows: 9700Pro was quiet,
the 6800 was like a damn vacum cleaner (So I put on an Arctic Cooler to
shut it up), an dI would like anyone who has an X1900XT to comment on how
noisy they are if they wouldn't mind, thanks
 
Carl said:
Hello All,
I have returned to the ATI fold after a while with Nvidia, not that I
particularly favour one brand over the other, just that I like to get the
best performance for my hard earned. 9700Pro is still serving well, and
6800GT is still going good. My question is as follows: 9700Pro was quiet,
the 6800 was like a damn vacum cleaner (So I put on an Arctic Cooler to
shut it up), an dI would like anyone who has an X1900XT to comment on how
noisy they are if they wouldn't mind, thanks
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Ditching an Arctic Cooler can be a real shock. Simple answer is to pay a
little extra for HIS cards which use Arctic Coolers.

http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov.php?id=227&view=yes
 
I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "John Russell"
Ditching an Arctic Cooler can be a real shock. Simple answer is to pay a
little extra for HIS cards which use Arctic Coolers.
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The ones I've seen in the UK seem to use the standard reference
coolers (all the pictures of all the X1900 cards have the same
coolers).

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.
 
Dr Teeth said:
I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "John Russell"


The ones I've seen in the UK seem to use the standard reference
coolers (all the pictures of all the X1900 cards have the same
coolers).
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Follow the link!

HIS use Arctic Cooler's on their ICEQ range.

One problem is that Crossfire Master cards have to cool the compositor chip
as well, and Arctic Cooler don't make a cooler which does that, hence the
use of reference coolers on such cards.
 
I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "John Russell"
Follow the link!
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I did. The words 'arctic cooler' are conspicuous by their absence <g>.

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.
 
Of course, for the X1900XT, the IceQ3 edition reviews on Anandtech won't be
available for a while. Wonder which Arctic Cooling model HIS used.

Existing HIS X1900 cards use the reference cooler, which can be loud.
 
Dr Teeth said:
I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "John Russell"


I did. The words 'arctic cooler' are conspicuous by their absence <g>.
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Well go to Arctic Coolers site and see the HIS reference, and whilst your
there check out what Arctic coolers look like, as it's obvious you have no
idea what they look like if you think my link showed a card with a
"reference cooler".
 
I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "John Russell"
Well go to Arctic Coolers site and see the HIS reference, and whilst your
there check out what Arctic coolers look like, as it's obvious you have no
idea what they look like if you think my link showed a card with a
"reference cooler".
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Perhaps posting better links and not being an arrogant git may help.

Kerplunk.

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.
 
RE: One problem is that Crossfire Master cards have to cool the compositor
chip
as well, and Arctic Cooler don't make a cooler which does that, hence the
use of reference coolers on such cards.

Crap! I think i will email Arctic to clear this up for definite. No way am I
getting an X1900XT master card without one of those...
 
From Arctic's site:

Fully Crossfire and BTX compatible
The Accelero 2 is Crossfire compatible with all mainboards and offers in
such a configuration exactly the same performance. In contrast to our ATI
Silencers, the Accelero is 100% BTX compatible, thus a DHES is not
possible/necessary anymore. The hot air is removed by the BTX airflow.

So it should work ok on an X1900XT Crossfire board.
*crosses fingers cos its been ordered*
 
Carl said:
From Arctic's site:

Fully Crossfire and BTX compatible
The Accelero 2 is Crossfire compatible with all mainboards and offers in
such a configuration exactly the same performance. In contrast to our ATI
Silencers, the Accelero is 100% BTX compatible, thus a DHES is not
possible/necessary anymore. The hot air is removed by the BTX airflow.

So it should work ok on an X1900XT Crossfire board.
*crosses fingers cos its been ordered*
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Noone's heard of Zalman? Their VF900-CU is damn good replacement.
I installed one on my x800xt. Super quiet at full fan speed.

http://www.zalman.co.kr/
 
Dr Teeth said:
I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "John Russell"


Perhaps posting better links and not being an arrogant git may help.
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Perhaps not discounting the advice of others when you don't better would
suite the OP better!

There are two many NG users like you who never give advice and only
criticise the advice of others!
 
Carl said:
From Arctic's site:

Fully Crossfire and BTX compatible
The Accelero 2 is Crossfire compatible with all mainboards and offers in
such a configuration exactly the same performance. In contrast to our ATI
Silencers, the Accelero is 100% BTX compatible, thus a DHES is not
possible/necessary anymore. The hot air is removed by the BTX airflow.

So it should work ok on an X1900XT Crossfire board.
*crosses fingers cos its been ordered*
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I hope HIS shift to those soon. My HIS x850XT IceQ card has better version
of the Artic-Cooler bought as an "add on" for my previous card. That's
becuase it has a backplate which acts as a heatsink for the memory on the
reverse of the board, rather than just a simple bracket.

Which make of card did you get to fit it too?
 
512MB ASUS Radeon X1900 CF PCI-E (x16) Mem 1450 MHz , GPU 625 MHz ,48 Pipes
VIVO CrossFire

And I got a reply from arctic cooling that it will fit the card. So all
seems to be ok.
 
The Accelero cooler lacked a thermal pad for the compositor chip, mentioned
in an earlier post. All I did was take one off the standard cooler and place
it onto the compositor chip before putting the 2 together. Runs great! The
loudest fan in my system mow is the PSU!
 
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