OMG, teh toast?

ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
edited January 2005 in Hardware
I was fragging HARD last night on UT2K4 and Doom3:shoot: , when meh game just started freezing! system locked.. reboot.. fine now.. Fraggin away.. 1/2 hour goes by.. LOCK!!, fer giggles I popped the side off the rig, and sho nuf the fan on my Vid card was toast:rarr: , board looks fine, but now I must get a new GPU cooler.

Been lookin at the arctic silencer 3 , any other suggestions?

Comments

  • rapturerapture
    edited January 2005
    That seems a little expensive.. I've been thinking about the same cooler myself which goes for about £7 here..
    http://www.chillblast.com/customer/product.php?productid=16177

    There is also a revision 4 (which are about 3 times the price) which may work out better depending on what card you have.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    the silencers rock
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    yah, I need the NV rev 3 so as to fit on my BFG 5900XT, or go with a different brand.
  • rapturerapture
    edited January 2005
    I would go for that one then, they seem to do very well in reviews but shop around, that seems too expensive. Oh and let mw know how you get on with it. I'm hoping to overclock my Radion 9600 Pro to death once I pick one up. That way I have an excuse to spend £200 on a new graphics card :)
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    rapture wrote:
    I would go for that one then, they seem to do very well in reviews but shop around, that seems too expensive. Oh and let mw know how you get on with it. I'm hoping to overclock my Radion 9600 Pro to death once I pick one up. That way I have an excuse to spend £200 on a new graphics card :)

    :thumbsup:


    Yea, I can find it elseware for like >23, thats just the first link to it that I found.
  • SSR_06SSR_06 Iowa
    edited January 2005
    take a look at zalmans new gpu cooler, looks to be very good.
    CU: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-118-117&depa=0
    ALCU: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-118-116&depa=0
    or if you really wanna spend some cash, this one's suppost to be even better
    http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=35-118-216&depa=0
  • youvegotjermzyouvegotjermz Baton Rouge, La
    edited January 2005
    man, those are some monster coolers. you guys must be overclocking the piss out of your cards.
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    youvegotjermz wrote:
    man, those are some monster coolers. you guys must be overclocking the piss out of your cards.

    Not yet! Soon as get one, BAM, gonna kick it up a few notches! :cool:
  • SpyriousSpyrious
    edited January 2005
    You can do the mod i have done on an old 9500np of mine.
    Just take an Athlon stock cooler (with a copper base its better) make to holes and screw it with ceramique on the card.it will be silent andgives a powerful cooling effect.Alternative you can cut from an other heatsink ramsinks and glue them with some thermal adhesive on the rams.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited January 2005
    I use the sandwidth type heatsink, but I got mine when they were only available with 1 heatpipe. I've had zero problems using it on an FX5600.
  • NebulousNebulous New York, The Empire State
    edited January 2005
    Dam i feel for you guyz that are still air cooled, especially on the videocards. My X800 XTPE has the swiftech MCW50 and i have ramsinks. Not 1 single problem here :)
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Yea, limited budget here, so I went for the NV silencer 3 @ $22.00. It'll be here on Thursday. ;)
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