New 8800 Aircooler in stock!

http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/sho [...] ctid=16561

I'm gettin one...I'll let u guys know how it performs.

Im curious,how hot is your card running now? i have 2 gts cards in sli and one card is at 45-48 and the other is 65 at idle,they only get a little hotter while gaming. what is really normal for these?

When I get home tonight I'll get temps with stock cooler, then next week sometime I'll post temps with new cooler.

I got my 8800GTX today and I'm VERY satisifed so far. I'm able to play F.E.A.R. at 1680x1050 with 16xAA 16xAF and vertical sync enabled while maintaining a near constant 60FPS.

Hay I have a BGF 8800gts and its damn quiet, even after hours of gaming.

Correct. So unless you have very good airflow, now all that hot air builds up inside the case.

Yeah I got separate ram coolers
http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/Swi [...] 16494.html
Thats why I was aking about ceramique above. I am afraid that as5 wont hold the ram sinks in place ?? does anyone know if it will be sufficient?

Also my case has a 120mm fan exhausting air out of my case right next to the video card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Show [...] %2D+Retail

See dude your CPU is fine

This cooler just came out. You are talking about the HR-03 which has been out for some time. It does not support the 8800. The HR-03 Plus supports 8800.

I think the Hr-03 comes with heatsinks for the ram already.
If you go to thermalright.com and look at the installation instructions, it shows heatsinks.
And from the FAQ
Answer2:


The 8800 series video cards have 12 DDR3 memory chips and HR-03 Plus has all of them covered as well as for the HSI chip and the PWNIC in that each one has its own RAMsink for sufficient cooling
You are right.

http://www.thermalright.com/a_page [...] 3_plus.htm

then click FAQ.

The new cooler is in and installed, and I did see some remarkable drops in temperature.

I also took quite a few pics with my phone, but when I reviewed them later I decided not to post them because of the incredibly low quality.

temps before the cooler:
61 - 62 idle 69 - 70 load

temps after cooler:
52 - 53 idle 59 - 60 load

now my load temps are cooler than my old idle temps

To sum up the process, this was by far the most complicated after - market vga cooler I have ever installed. I was not very impressed with the state of the thermal pads used on the stock cooler, as some of them seemed to not even be in contact with the stock heatsink. I think you would probably see improved temps if you simply replaced the thermal pads with some as5 on the stock cooler.

I am going to install xp on another partition next weekend and see how far I can push my card with the new cooler, I'll update you guys then.

(i would see how far I can push it in vista if the driver support was just a TOUCH more functional :x )

Edit: all temps were taken @ 621 mhz core - 1000mhz mem

Why not just stick the largest CPU cooler on the gfx card's processor?

Cant you draw a image instead?

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Those bastards are hard to find.

Thanks Pete, those are really some crappy pictures . Too bad the PCI card is so close to the fan, because it cuts the airflow a little bit.

Good job tho. Thinking on pushing the card a little more?

Warning: This store is misleading:

In fact right now this VGA cooler is only for the 8800GTX, not the 8800 series.
See this note from Thermalright, the HR03+ manufacturer:

With the wrong information on that online store... lots of 8800GTS owners will end up ordering it not knowing they won't be able to use it

bump on the question:

Where did you connect the fan (does the 8800 have a fan connector? If so what type? if not did you connect it to the mobo or the PSU?

Also, new question: Does the fan blow toards the video card or away from it

Thanks

His 92mm fan has a 3pin connector. So it is probably connected to the mb.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums [...] 7_1742.jpg

The 92mm fan blows into the heatsink.


Too bad I cant do this with my SLI'd 8800GTX's!

Same here. Not enough room to put those two sucker on with two 92mm fans... only if one is air cooler and other passive cooled .

Yeah but neither the fan controller or the motherboard will know the GPU temp.
If you put the fan at low (fine for everyday windows) and then you forget to set it back to med or high while playing a heavy game, wouldn't you risk to fry the GPU?

Sorry for the lack of reply, I've been out of town for a couple of days. Sarsoft is correct however, it is a 3-pin connector that I plugged into my fan controller. I haven't had a great deal of time to monkey with the settings, right now I just leave it cranked to max and it's still pretty quiet.

I would give it a 4. It was difficult to install when compared to some other vga coolers like my old zalman, but overall it is still a small, relatively easy project. It comes with very clear instructions, even detailing 2 different configurations to set it up in. I think really the only thing that was a bit intimidating is removing the stock HSF, since it is huge and has around 15 small screws you must take out. Also cleaning the various thermal paste/pads off was a bit more work than usual because the chip is HUGE and there are more ram chips than I am used to.

Just small, phillips head screws. If you have a small screwdriver they shouldn't be a problem.

I am always glad to help, send a message if there's anything i can do

Just the position of the heatsink, I suspect performance is similar. Heck if you are reading the manual it probably has more info than I do Just check out the pictures, in one configuration the heatsink is on top of the card, in the other its on the bottom. I liked it on top, that way the fan would blow air onto my ramsinks as well.

Yes they do, just make sure your monitor is like HD instead of regular LCD. It should auto detect but if it doesn't you will have to pick it.

Hmm, thanks for the tip, I'll check it out when I get home. Right now I am using the vga input on my tv, perhaps i should try DVI->HDMI converter?