VGA Silencer owners?

[krazynutz]

Did everyone else who has a VGA silencer get a 3-4 degree drop in temps for your CPU and Mobo? My CPU idle temp is now 22C-23C degrees (previously 26C-27C) and my mobo rests easy at 25C-26C degrees (previously 29C-30C). My room temp is 75F degrees. Also, have any of you removed the shim on the ATI card? I thought I was getting a good connection but my GPU core will only go to 400Mhz. At 410 it starts to snow in the water on "Nature." Also, did you use the silicon compound that came with it, or did you use something else? I used AS Ceramique. Any help?

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[scottchen]

Well i mean it would make sense, it exhausts...

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[krazynutz]

well yeah, that's what I figured and yeah, it all seems obvious. Just checking to see if others had the same results.

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[mopeygoth]

aye that

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[Willamette_sucks]

You just got a card with low VGPU! Farg0ts! What brand is it? You'll have to volt mod it if you want more speed, but if you did vmod it, you could get ALOT more speed (460 and up!). What can you run the memory at?

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[addiarmadar]

Uhhh yeah I sure did. That thing takes that GPU heat and blows it out of your case via exhaust.

No I did not remove the GPU shim from my radeon 9800pro-xt. I used it to keep a balance for contact on the core. I does produce a Gap and the millwork on the HSF is a bit rough but that all is cure with the proper application of artic silver 5. Just make sure you dont let it touch anything else but the core.

That blasted snow thing you are gettin is mostly likely lack of voltage to the core. I flashed my 9800 pro with the XT bios and got up to 420 on the core without the snow in the water via nature test. Before the flash, I could only do 411 on the core without snow there. That compund you are using should be adequate so I doubt the snow you get is from heat. The XT bios will get the core and ram more juice.

If you want the AGP to do more, just flash it with the appropriate OEM 9800XT bios. If you do get wierd outlining drawings from the 3dmark03 afterwards that is normal for the r350 core.

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[krazynutz]

I have Hynix DDR. I RMA'd my first card which would get snow in 3DMark 2003 at anything over 407Mhz. My new card doesn't get snow until 425Mhz! And that's on STOCK COOLING! My new card's Hynix DDR maxes out around 380Mhz. Haven't put the VGA silencer on it yet but will post my results when I do. 380's pretty good for that Hynix DDR, right?

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[addiarmadar]

For Hynx, yeah. Most of the time you can go higher than the stock.

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[Titanion]

Damn, I think I want one... how does the heatsink on this thing compare with a 1U copper one in terms of actual gpu cooling...

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[scottchen]

Your pure copper rackmount cooler is better man, stick with it, if you're up to the challenge, get a 80watt peltier under that heatsink. I just got a 156watt on my vid card, dropped temp by another 14C, so an overall temp drop from stock of about 45C. Gained about 80mhz oc on the core, and about 25 on the mem from stockcool.

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[scottchen]

But adding peltier will increase the overall system temp.

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[Vapor]

How hard was it to pot the peltier and reattach the whole cooler to the card? (i.e., did the peltier get in the way of the mounts?)

I've gotten increasingly interested in doing this and a vmod over the past few hours.

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[scottchen]

I just went out and purchased the coolermaster 2500+ heatsink, it was actually really easy, all you need is some thermal epoxy(arctic alumina+arctic silver epoxy yes both is ideal), dielectric grease(luberex), Neoprene rubber, and a piece of copper plate(50mmx50mmx5mm will be ideal).

You have the 9800 card right?

First just use AS epoxy and attach the copper plate to the cold side of the peltier, then use AS epoxy to attach the heatsink to the hot side of the peltier. Now drill the mounting holes on the HEATSINK, not the copper plate, on the aluminum part of the 2500+ heatsink, i'm too lazy to drill copper, aluminum's much easier. Then force a couple screws in there, fill up the holes with INDUSTRIAL epoxy. Now this is IMPORTANT!! To prevent condensation cut out a thin slip of the neoprene rubber and seal up the peltier, just all the way around, so you can't see it anymore, then put the leftover rubber on the back of the core. Now put dielectric grease everywhere, the area surrounding the core, and about 1CM outside of the shim. Next get some AL epoxy on the core, some industrial epoxy on the shim. Now just mount it using screws and nuts.

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[scottchen]

And I wouldn't try this on a VGA Silencer since you'll be adding about 1CM height to the base.

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[scottchen]

Well the peltiers hasn't failed yet, my card's still alive.

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[scottchen]

Well we'll see, if it fails and kills the card, then great, an excuse to buy the X800XT.

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[scottchen]

Managed to lower my card's temp by another 6C, did a ducting mod so my front bottom case fan brings air straight to the 2500+ heatsink, now the heatsink's just hot, not melting.

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