X800 PRO with Artic Cooler

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Dark said:
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Whoops we are talking about the Arctic cooler :-p

But the X800XT is said to be less hot then theh 9800 Pro/Xt ( thanx
the heavens..this 9800 Pro is running damn hot )
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Which revision 9800 Pro do you have? Mine is build date Jan 04,
revision F, and I'd say from die size on it compared to what I looked at
a year ago in the store, this one is .13m :) It's not hot at all that I
can tell. I wish there was a temp gauge for it.
McG.
 
axexango said:
"Chip" <[email protected]> wrote in message


If it's the same thing as the Artic cooler I have on my AIW 9800pro
they mean "40% less heat - i.e. as detected on GPU - than with stock
cooler from ATI". That's all.
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I'm sorry - perhaps I am being stupid - but I still don't know what that
means.

The GPU outputs a fixed amount of heat: this does not change if you change
the heatsink.

So what does 40% less heat actually mean? I still have no idea.

Chip
 
Dark said:
Low-k 13Micron GPU.... ati tested with Low-k 13micron GPU's in their
9600 series and alike...and now are ready to bring out the big guns
with that technology!

And yes, that is cooler.....
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So what? Every X800 board has that technology so why would the Excalibur
have "30% less heat" (not 40%) than other X800 boards?
 
So what? Every X800 board has that technology so why would the
Excalibur
have "30% less heat" (not 40%) than other X800 boards?
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What they mean is that there's less heat that accumulates on the GPU
compared to the context where the card is equipped with the stock
cooling fan designed by ATI. The Arctic-Cooler is able to bring the
temp down because it blows the hot air gathered from the GPU to the
outside of the case instead of just recycling the air around the
heatsink as is the case with the stock cooling from ATI. So if you
take the temp on the GPU, it will be less hot, thus the "less heat".

HTH

Axexango
 
patrickp said:
The Fahrenheit temperature scale is still widely used in the UK,
although I think we use the Centigrade scale officially, now.
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Well... Celsius, bit for most purposes Celsius == Centigrade :-)

Ben
 
Well... Celsius, bit for most purposes Celsius == Centigrade :-)

Ben
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Yes, seems the Celsius scale is a type of Centigrade scale. You're
right; Celsius seems to be the term usually used now, Ben, but when I
was younger, it was always referred to as Centigrade - Celsius was
never used. Go figure! But I guess that's why I habitually refer to
Centigrade rather than Celsius.

patrickp

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Which revision 9800 Pro do you have? Mine is build date Jan 04,
revision F, and I'd say from die size on it compared to what I looked at
a year ago in the store, this one is .13m :) It's not hot at all that I
can tell. I wish there was a temp gauge for it.
McG.
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Not sure... but it does runs hot... hot enough for it's standard
cooling fan to be not capable of keeping it running. ..
 
patrickp said:
Ben already pointed that out and I agreed
with him a couple of days before your post
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Sorry. I did not see it. Thanks.

For additional interest, the official SI website mentions Celsius:
http://www1.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter2/2-2/2-2-2.html

Elsewhere it describes the choice of name:
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9th CGPM, 1948, Resolution 7: adoption of "degree Celsius"
From three names ("degree centigrade", "centesimal degree", "degree
Celsius") proposed to denote the degree of temperature, the CIPM has
chosen "degree Celsius".
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