After Market VGA Cooler How to Not Void the Warranty

is there Any way of not Voiding your Warranty With a After Market VGA Cooler?

i have a VisionTek 4850 and want to reduce the heat Plus Noise i know its fine and suppose to get hot it stays at the right Temp level i just want it cooler and less noisy...

is there something that is impossible to put back on your Video Card after Removing the old heat sink
or some kind of notification that they will see if you have to send it to the company for RMA if it gos Bad?

if any one happens to know i would be very thankful for your time

and if its not to much whats the Best New Heat sink to slap on that baby?

Personally i dont know. This kind of question comes up every once in a while. Some companies EVGA is one i think that are quite happy for you to swap out the cooling system and OC the card. Others will say it voids the warranty, thing is like you are wondering, how are they going to know. As long as you replace the old cooling arangement if you need to send it back and the changes you made didnt mean you had to physically alter the card then i cant see the problem, and cant see how they could tell.

Mactronix

I checked with a link i had when we did this last and EVGA say as long as there is no physical damage to the card you can change the cooler, as long as its returned with tehstock cooler its all good.

Mactronix

Don't use anything other than these types of liquid :

http://www.xoxide.com/koolance-liq-700bu-b.html

Unless you manage to dump the heat outside or into another room, your room temperature will be the same regardless of whether you use the stock heatsink or an after market one.

Here you go Sir,

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/ [...] 1s65#blank

Don't worry about it, its fanless and already has pre-applied paste.. Look at the pics.....

You don't put fans on fan-less heatsinks.... They dissapate the heat by themselves......

As far as BEST of the BEST I don't know but it works flawless and keeps your temps down....

You can still Xfire but you will need a longer ribbon... Not a biggie....

That is another winner, but if you decide to use a fan on that one, you have to make sure you have enough clearance.. It's more expensive too...

The AC is enough for your needs... If you want something more flashy and cash is not an option..the go with the Thermalright....

are there some Reviews or benchmarks on all of these?

That is a badass cooler, but when you plan on paying 50.00$ or more you normally consider buying a new videocard all together.....

I dont use fanless-heatsinks due to i am the other way around... I like the noise... so IMO the AC should be more than enough for your needs... And remember if you dont want noise then dont get a cooler that has a fan, no point....

Not bad, but remember to measure before you buy, the AC is by far the lowest profile of all sinks and thats why IMO its a better buy....

Yea there are different sized crossfire ribbons..... You can view them on ebay if you like....

THis 1 i would really want but its not there any more

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

ok forget the Gigabyte it not as good as i thought i just love the design


Do i have to put the little Heat sinks on and how? will that make a big difference?

i want to be safe and not have to much crap on there just incase the card gos after a few years

i cant find the AC for my Card on Newegg i want it from new egg cuz im ordering more ram and some cleaning solution also i can get the Zalmen VF1000 for $38 off new egg thats a good Freakin deal

Found the AC though it was a different model But now im finding out if i get the Zalmen i basicly need to get the extra Ram sink package i didnt even want to put them on there now i have to find a cooler that will cover the whole card

would that be fine not puting the heat sinks on? or do i have to and should i get a Cooler thats going to cover the whole dang thing?

back to the dang drawing board

if i take my stock cooler off i heard that the V ram and other things on the Video card will get hotter because After market coolers don't have the best air circulation

and i did not want to have to stick a bunch of heat Sinks on my Card like look at the VF1000 its nice but you basicly have to get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835118038

so i just want to know if there's A VGA cooler that will be like the stock one just bigger and better but will cool every thing

i have a big freakin scythe fan pushing air straight out just for the VGA

but there has to be some card Coolers out there that cool the Memory modules as well without buying extra crap

This is what I am trying to explain to you, if you want NO NOISE AT ALL you need a fanless heatsink... If you go with a Scythe or Turbo Twins you are just wasting your money, due to the fact they will emit the same noise as your stock cooler at 100% fan speed... so its a matter if you want 0 noise or keep the stock fan....

As far as upcomming coolers for the 4800 family I would not know, i dont use them....

Well why is it loud @ 100% fan speed? are you gaming? watching high res movies?

If you are playing a game the volume should surpass any noise that is comming from the case... What is the exact reason you dont like the fan noise?

How hot does it get? What is the temp at 67% fan speed?

That is waaaaaay to hot for a GPU @ 47% fan speed.... What is your room temp? 90F??? Must be hot in your room or you need a replacement (RMA) ASAP

Yea if its 90f or higher in your room you need to start saving for a watercooling setup!!!!

What is the most you can pay at the moment?

Hi all.

I just got an RMA number for my Visiontek 4870. The card never was reliable, producing sporadic crashes, but progressed to causing the system to fail POST or filling the screen with red blocks.

Soon after I got it I replaced the heatsink / fan with the Koolance VID-487. I would recommend these water blocks although be really careful with the thermal pads. The ones supplied were not the right thickness. The motherboard is a Foxconn BlackOps so basically everything except the memory is water cooled to a radiator / fan mounted outside the house.

I'm hoping they honor the warranty but indeed there was no way to re-use the congealed thermal compound that came with the original cooler. I used Arctic 5 instead. Seems to me that is the only way they could tell the cooler was removed.

Use AS and test the temps.... There is really not a big difference when you compare both but in this case it would be wise to start off with the Artic Silver.......