Upgrading a 9800 pro's HSF

CaxusCaxus
edited October 2003 in Hardware
So is it worth it to get a new hsf for my 9800 pro if i wanted to squeeze a few more mhz out of my core clock speeds? Right now i'm looking at the Tt crystal orb but there doesn't seem to be much documentation anywhere about the effectiveness of hsf upgrades over the stock coolers for newer ATI cards. Does anyone know of a better one and how effective it is to do this in the first place?

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  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    you can always check out geeky1's post on how to put a big-ass hsf on a vid card

    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5211
  • CaxusCaxus
    edited October 2003
    Yeah i saw that but i think i'd rather just buy something that was designed for it rather than try and do any serious modding like that. The whole part about getting it to stay on the card firmly scared me a bit. :)
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited October 2003
    I had problems fitting a Crystal Orb on my Radeon 9700.
    It seemed as if it wouldn't make decent contact with the core.
    It put on a lot of AS3 though.
    It resulted in crashing 3d apps, artifacts and other funny things.

    I will purchase a Zalman passive GFX heatsink very soon.

    Note I did not remove the shim on the card.
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited October 2003
    Ya...

    The zalman's do a very good job of adding more headroom and are really the only gpu hsf solution worth buying.

    I have an iceberq 4, i think it does an even worse job of cooling my 9800 pro than the stock does. If you're going to be overclocking either buy a zalman with a 92mm fan or use an amd retail hsf.

    Everything else isn't going to provide a substantial overclock to justify the cost and time to install.
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