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GREAT aftermarket cooling for 6800GT or GTOC
Running a BFG FX 6800 GT OC which runs stock at 370/1000
Today I received my NvSilencer http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/vid-43.html via FedEx. Woohoo! Installed it and oh yes it sure does make a difference! Ran 3dMark 05 and watched temps whole time on 2nd monitor Overclocking core to 389 and mem to 1.07ghz: STOCK COOLING: GPU got as hot as 82C, Ambient got as hot as 62C nvSILENCER COOLING: GPU = 70C, Ambient =50C Bumped my core to 406 and mem to 1.10ghz: nvSILENCER COOLING: GPU = 73C, Ambient =53C So went ahead and bumped core to 411 and kept mem at 1.10ghz just to see if I could (oh and turned off second monitor cuz now I want to see what kind of 3dMark score I can get. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=226919 Another nice benefit is this thing routes the hot air OUT of your case through the back, meaning ambient temp for your CPU, RAM, Drives, and other cards is lowered. Beware, if your GT or GTOC was not taking up two slots before, now it does. Be sure you have a free slot next to your AGP slot. -- Scotter |
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Pfft, i can overclock my Leadtek 6800GT to 425/1150, no modding required.
"Scotter" wrote in message ... Running a BFG FX 6800 GT OC which runs stock at 370/1000 Today I received my NvSilencer http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/vid-43.html via FedEx. Woohoo! Installed it and oh yes it sure does make a difference! Ran 3dMark 05 and watched temps whole time on 2nd monitor Overclocking core to 389 and mem to 1.07ghz: STOCK COOLING: GPU got as hot as 82C, Ambient got as hot as 62C nvSILENCER COOLING: GPU = 70C, Ambient =50C Bumped my core to 406 and mem to 1.10ghz: nvSILENCER COOLING: GPU = 73C, Ambient =53C So went ahead and bumped core to 411 and kept mem at 1.10ghz just to see if I could (oh and turned off second monitor cuz now I want to see what kind of 3dMark score I can get. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=226919 Another nice benefit is this thing routes the hot air OUT of your case through the back, meaning ambient temp for your CPU, RAM, Drives, and other cards is lowered. Beware, if your GT or GTOC was not taking up two slots before, now it does. Be sure you have a free slot next to your AGP slot. -- Scotter |
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Richard Dower wrote:
Pfft, i can overclock my Leadtek 6800GT to 425/1150, no modding required. 410/1100 here with a max temp of 68c PNY 6800gt, stock cooling, could probably go higher but I only wanted to at least get to ultra specs plus a few more and feel how comfortable that extra $150 is sitting in my wallet waiting to be spent on something else. -- "Now I want you to remember that no ******* ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb ******* die for his country." -- General George S. Patton, Jr. |
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"James Riske" wrote in message ... 410/1100 here with a max temp of 68c PNY 6800gt, stock cooling, could probably go higher but I only wanted to at least get to ultra specs plus a few more and feel how comfortable that extra $150 is sitting in my wallet waiting to be spent on something else. Indeed. :-) |
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"Richard Dower" wrote in message ... Pfft, i can overclock my Leadtek 6800GT to 425/1150, no modding required. Pah. I can get 453/1120 with mine. Shame the 1120 isn't too stunning, but the 453 isn't bad! Chip "Scotter" wrote in message ... Running a BFG FX 6800 GT OC which runs stock at 370/1000 Today I received my NvSilencer http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/vid-43.html via FedEx. Woohoo! Installed it and oh yes it sure does make a difference! Ran 3dMark 05 and watched temps whole time on 2nd monitor Overclocking core to 389 and mem to 1.07ghz: STOCK COOLING: GPU got as hot as 82C, Ambient got as hot as 62C nvSILENCER COOLING: GPU = 70C, Ambient =50C Bumped my core to 406 and mem to 1.10ghz: nvSILENCER COOLING: GPU = 73C, Ambient =53C So went ahead and bumped core to 411 and kept mem at 1.10ghz just to see if I could (oh and turned off second monitor cuz now I want to see what kind of 3dMark score I can get. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=226919 Another nice benefit is this thing routes the hot air OUT of your case through the back, meaning ambient temp for your CPU, RAM, Drives, and other cards is lowered. Beware, if your GT or GTOC was not taking up two slots before, now it does. Be sure you have a free slot next to your AGP slot. -- Scotter |
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So maybe you faster guys could go faster yet at 10c less.
-- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Ed Light wrote:
So maybe you faster guys could go faster yet at 10c less. Pft. Pah. I agree Ed. |
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"Ed Light" wrote in message news:0_Tgd.70829$bk1.35962@fed1read05... So maybe you faster guys could go faster yet at 10c less. Actually, no. I increased the core voltage on my card to 1.4v and its at that setting that I can run 453MHz. The temps weren't too bad - mid 70's I think - but I thought it would be safer to replace the stock cooler with a VGA Silencer if I was going to run at high speed for prolonged periods. Whereas I am delighted with the VGA Silencer, inasmuchas its brought the temps down by around 10C, in fact it hasn't made any difference whatsoever to my max overclock. If I had a waterblock and load temps were in the 40's rather than the 60's maybe it would make a difference. But it seems if you are comparing 60's with 70's, the overclock is actually unaffected. Chip |
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I hear you saying you can run 453MHz with the stock cooling and it doesn't
get very hot so why run something that only lowers it 10C and still doesn't allow you to get past that 453MHz mark. That makes sense. But I, for one, would feel like 453MHz @ 60C is safer and more stable than 453MHz @ 70C To me there are also other benefits to using something like NVSilencer, such as: (a) Because the NVSilencer ejects the warm air outside the back of the case, you get lowered ambient temp for your CPU, RAM, Drives, and other cards. (b) Possibly longer lifespan for your video card. (c) Quieter. So I guess something like this is great for someone like me who just wants to run his GT at around 400C with 10C lower temps and lower noise and such but if you are someone wanting to push your card to the very edge, something more hard core like water cooling is probably what you want... ? "Chip" wrote in message ... "Ed Light" wrote in message news:0_Tgd.70829$bk1.35962@fed1read05... So maybe you faster guys could go faster yet at 10c less. Actually, no. I increased the core voltage on my card to 1.4v and its at that setting that I can run 453MHz. The temps weren't too bad - mid 70's I think - but I thought it would be safer to replace the stock cooler with a VGA Silencer if I was going to run at high speed for prolonged periods. Whereas I am delighted with the VGA Silencer, inasmuchas its brought the temps down by around 10C, in fact it hasn't made any difference whatsoever to my max overclock. If I had a waterblock and load temps were in the 40's rather than the 60's maybe it would make a difference. But it seems if you are comparing 60's with 70's, the overclock is actually unaffected. Chip |
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"Scotter" wrote in message ... I hear you saying you can run 453MHz with the stock cooling and it doesn't get very hot so why run something that only lowers it 10C and still doesn't allow you to get past that 453MHz mark. That makes sense. But I, for one, would feel like 453MHz @ 60C is safer and more stable than 453MHz @ 70C That's what I said. I thought it would be safer to run it at lower temps if I was going to push it. To me there are also other benefits to using something like NVSilencer, such as: (a) Because the NVSilencer ejects the warm air outside the back of the case, you get lowered ambient temp for your CPU, RAM, Drives, and other cards. True. Only marginal benefit since the amount of air coming out of the case is minimal, but true nevertheless. (b) Possibly longer lifespan for your video card. True. (c) Quieter. True. So I guess something like this is great for someone like me who just wants to run his GT at around 400C with 10C lower temps and lower noise and such but if you are someone wanting to push your card to the very edge, something more hard core like water cooling is probably what you want... ? Maybe. I am delighted with my VGA Silencer though. It does everything I expected of it (based on my experiences of a VGA Silencer on my old 9700 Pro) Chip. |
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