Ok, so i have a eVga 8800GTX and i have had it oced to 620/1500/1000 ever since i bought it. Every time i tried to o/c it further with the stock cooler it would start to artifact. So i decided to get an hr-05 plus and i slapped it on my card with a 120mm yate loon (50cfm) and some as5. My idle temperatures went down about 15c and my load about 20c. So i tried to o/c the card even more lowering everything to stock (576/1350/900) and gradually increased the core by 10mhz, i got it up to 660 with my idle being around 50c and loads never over 65c though it would crash about 5 min into 3dmarx 06 and would continue to do so until 630mhz where it would just artifact. So even after the after market cooler i can only run the card 100% stable at 620mhz which is really urking me . I was wondering if anyone had any input or could point out something that would help me in getting the core higher than 620mhz so i don't feel like i have wasted ~$60 on nothing more then some cooler temps... Thanks
Btw when i took my stock cooler off i saw a -3 (looked like it was done with a sharpie) marked on the copper base where all of the thermal paste was, does anyone know what this is?
Btw when i took my stock cooler off i saw a -3 (looked like it was done with a sharpie) marked on the copper base where all of the thermal paste was, does anyone know what this is?