Aftermarket cooler for GeForce 8800 series cards?

Are there any available aftermarket coolers for the 8800 GTX? I'd prefer air as I'm not yet ready to go for water cooling.

Thanks for the help!

Can't see any yet. I'm waiting for a decent one which can reduce the noise!

I found this one.

Hey guys, I just ordered a 8800GTS and might look for a AM cooler if the stock cannot cut it (although not planning to OC for now). It appears that the choice of fan is left up to you by Thermalright. IMHO this looks to be a champ of a cooler (will look further at it).

Nice find AdamBomb42. I think this is the first air cooler for 8800. Been waiting for it.

Now where can i find one? Cant find it nowhere.

With a vertical typical computer, isn<t that cooler's weight going to "pry" the card , bend the connections at the slot? It looks fairly heavy

What about the RAM sinks? and IC's? The stock HSF is for just about every major component on the 8800. If you went with the Zalman you would have to get seperate sinks for everything else on the card. Cost would be not worth it. I'll wait for a better HSF that cools everything the stock one does but better and without haveing to use thermal tape.

Its very light, I have the normal hr-03 on my x1900xtx, idle temps in the 30s load in the 50s a good 20C better than stock, while being silent

try doing some research first and you'll find out its one of the best vga coolers out there...

Thermalright's HR-03 Is A VGA Cooler Gorilla!

Well that was a nice review of the HR-03. I did some research and found that it did come with ram sinks. Not to sure how well it will cool the 8800's RAM but I'm sure it's should be close to Nvidia's HSF solution. I retort my previous statment. The specs for it didn't say anything about ram sinks nor are any shown in it's picture, so I figured it was just a HS only. I think I might just pick this beauty up when it becomes available for my GTS.

He wasn't proving a point (which would be nice to site multiple sources.)

He was stating that if you assume a cooler sucks, you very well could be wrong.



Here are some more reviews:
http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/thermalright_hr-03/
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=340
http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=592



Can even use two for SLI/CF:

Those look massive. From what i can tell they take two slots and not counting the 92mm fan ---yickes---.

That setup looks awesome problem is that if your going to by a high end cooler your most likely buying it for a high end video card or maybe a slight chance you would get it for complete silence on a low-mid range card. Problem is that you can't hope to passively cool a 8800GTX or GTS safely without pushing it near its thermal limit even with excellent case airflow. so you have to stick a fan on there which takes up a third or fourth slot since the cooler takes up atleast 2 to begin with. either way if you are using two the these babies its obviously shown a particular setup will allow you to use atleast 1 pci slot, which is all you would hope for if you were going to Sli with stock cooling anyway.

A problem i already see is that it looks like there is definitely not enough room for the memory on that board, graphic cards usually already cut it close enough to the memory slots when the cooler is on the bottom, this one looks as though you wouldnt be able to set it up that way with the cooler on top..

I've heard nothing but good about the Thermaltake HR-03...but what kind of fan couple it with?

it doesn't vent out like the stock cooling on the 8800GTX and X1950XTX, depending on how you arrange the fan you can either have it blow directly north or south unless you were to manually configure it otherwise.

Not to take anything away from the HR-03 its still the best vga cooler around.

there is about 1.7" from the base of the cooler to the mb, dimms stick up about 1.25"

Being that many cards run over 90C using stock cooling with no overclocking and good case airflow, ATI must not be worried about them running at those temps.

Maybe "most" other cards aren't able to handle 100C+ but we arent talking about those cards right now are we

Robs: Nice setup, is that PC P&C PSU? Or is the exhaust from the Tuniq blowing into the PSU fan?

Being that many cards run over 90C using stock cooling with no overclocking and good case airflow, ATI must not be worried about them running at those temps.

Maybe "most" other cards aren't able to handle 100C+ but we arent talking about those cards right now are we

Robs: Nice setup, is that PC P&C PSU? Or is the exhaust from the Tuniq blowing into the PSU fan?

Yeah thats the 750watt PC Power and Cooling PSU with the 60amp single 12v rail

The exhaust from the Tuniq is flowing out tward that giant 120mm Case exhaust fan.