Looking for a good cooler for my 8800GTS

Not sure on a release date, but the Accelero Xtreme from Arctic Coolong looks like one hell of a cooler.

oh and BTW - even when abused with the Fuzzy Cube, the card's core never got above 70 C. 65nm die size means tighter temperature range. The era of the Radeons throttling at 110c is over.

It looks like the cooler is the one from the 8800GTS/GTX. The 8800GTS/GTX are great cards, but they will be the biggest heat generators in your computer.
It is good that the stock cooler expels most of the heat out back through the extra slot. The stock coolers are quiet too.
OEM replacement coolers are good at extracting heat from the GPU chips, but without rear exhausts they don't help the whole system because the recirculated hot air puts added load on the cpu and case coolers.
The 8800 has four slits which let hot air back into the system which increases the case heat, and ultimately puts extra load on the cpu cooler.
I have found it very effective to add a slot cooler like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811999704
Mount it just below the 8800. It has a speed knob so you can adjust the cooling vs. noise equation.
This will help both vga and cpu temperatures.

If your going to upgrade that cooler that is pretty good anyway you might as well get the thermaltake tidewater a water cooling solutions just for graphics cards ahve a look
http://www.thermaltake.com/product [...] -w0052.asp

idk if i wana go for water cooling...

i think i might do what geofelt said, put a pci slot fan to suck the hot air right out of the case

makes sense since those 3 slots of hot air let it back in the case

If you would like to go for a silent solution, I wouldn't choose the Thermaltake solution. I'm repeting what I already said on other threads, but I already owned a couple of thermaltake solutions and all but the Big Typhoon and Extreme Spirit II were disapointing with their noise level. But I also did owned some Zalman and Antec products and I never been disapointed at all, they always had great cooling and great silence capacity.

If you want silent solutions, you should go either for the Artic-Cooling Accelero S1 rev 2, with the Turbo fan kit, or with the Thermalright HR-03 with a 92 or 120 mm fan on it (Antec's or Zalman's one, for a silent solution) or the VF1000 from Zalman, but this last one will not be as effective as the 2 others.

See:

http://www.abchw.com/content/vga-h [...] er-roundup
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/arti [...] VzaWFzdA==
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article798-page1.html
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article793-page1.html

Hey man... I'm on the same place as you are right now, except I have a 320MB GTS instead. I'm going to be ordering this today:

ZEROtherm Hurricane HC92 Cu 8800 UFO VGA Cooler - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835887014

From a few reviews I saw, this thing on performance mode rivals the HR-03 pretty well, is a few bucks cheaper, and actually AVAILABLE on most etailers. That plus having such a complete installation kit led me to my decision as a first time GPU modder, the HSF also seems to be compatible with a lot of other GPUs, so hopefully I can set it on my next GPU.

Yeah he needs an HR-03 Plus for his card, and that's nowhere to be found. I tried ALL the reputable etailers I could think of, and I'm not about to buy it on a website that looks like a kid made. However there's availability for yours, I think I saw some on a few websites.

Im ordering from Jabtech. Getting a TR120 eXtreme and and HR-03 GT, but atm i think my card is busted

ouch...

http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] s_id=21390

some sites say HR-03 plus will work for my card and some say it wont work

yep i'm about 99% sure i want the HR-03 plus; i just found out it works on my card

i was looking for more of a 10c+ temp difference so i think im just gona have to go with the HR-03 PLUS

the only problem is that im gonna have to hope it fits in my case

Antec 900...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] ntec%2b900

and gratz on fixing ur card

ahh nice you have the same one

and yea i have a side fan... i'll probably just move it to one of the hard drive bays...

I probably wont order it till next Monday, but if you still don't have yours I'll pm you about it.

The thermaltake symphony series is pretty nice and simple. I have custom setup that consist of some the best parts on the market. The symphony is 5c higher at load on the GPU and CPU on my second system which cost about a 1/3. So you might want ease up on the whole sale Thermaltake bashing. Mixing metals just means you need more additives and many people use pre-mix so that isn't an issue. Just for full disclosure the custom is currently running PC ICE which raised my temp about 4c. Next flush will be returning to distilled water plus additives.

Both setups will yield max OC on my GTX cards with ntune. The performance difference (stock vs max OC) isn't all that great using ntune. At some point I might use riva tune to tweak the shader clock.

The custom setup.
Black Ice® GTX Gen Two Xtreme 480
Swiftech APOGEE GTX
Swiftech MCP655
Danger Den 8800GTX Single Block (very high flow)
1/2 tubes
XSPC 150 Passive Aluminium Reservoir (only good for looks)
Asus Bliz Formula waterblock (very restrictive) single loop was still more effective than using an F-style bipass loop.

Sorry for the hijack

All of that about the HR-03 and you go with a PCI fan

I used the following slot fan. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811999704 It's cheap, in stock, and worth the experiment.
I don't know about the quality, but what I liked was the little speed control knob which can select your optimum fan speed vs noise. I kept it near inaudible.

Do let us know how you do in a follow up.