Coolest Card?

Hey,

I was planning on upgrading my GPU, at the moment i've a Calibre 8600gt and it runs far to hot for my liking (50C idle, and gets to low 90's sometimes under load). So in an attempt to avoid temps like this again i thought i'd ply the knowledge of the forums.

Looking at a 8800GTS 512mb and was wondering if there are any brands that perform noticably cooler than the rest, or if not what is a EASY way to add a cooling solution of my own? (Hopefully without voiding my warrenty)

Thanks in advance.

Rivatuner doesn't seem to have any effect. When i first installed it and went into the settings it showed the fan speed for each of the settings at 100%. I thought that weird and lowered them to 50%, no change in temp or fan noise. 25% did nothing either. Tried restarting the comp thinking it might have needed a restart to take effect. No change.

There's 2 different places where you can change the fan speeds.

Try the first arrow.

VGA cards are built to run hot reliably. I would not worry too much about that. The 8800GTS-512-G92 has an excellent stock cooler. The good thing about it is that it exhausts all of the vga heat directly out the back of the case. This keeps the case and the cpu cooler.

For $500, you can get the card with a water block from BFG http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814143120 or install one yourself.
EVGA will not void your warranty if you install an oem cooler. They do a good job of getting heat from the vga card, but then they just dump it inside the case which is very bad.

I would just stick with the stock cooler; it's good. As far as I know, all the stock coolers are the same.