Is the zalman zm-rhs88 required for the VF1000 led on a 8800 gt?

[Guest]

Well my topic pretty much has it... Does anybody know? I've been getting mixed answers from Google.

 

[spinetap]

No you do not. I have a 8800GT also and bought the VF1000. What you do need is a set of heat sinks to put on the MOSFETs. When you take the old cooler off, check to see where the heatsink was touching the MOSFETs.

This is what i bought.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185083

 

[Mousemonkey]

I'm using VF900's on my 8800GT's and they came with the RAM heatsinks.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118001

 

[spinetap]

The VF1000 aslo comes with the RAM Heatsinks. 8 of them I believe. The ZM-RHS88 is for the G80 series and the 8800GT is a G92 series GPU and dose not require the extra Heatsink (ZM-RHS88). The extra Heatsinks I bought were for the MOSFETs chips that the original cooler for the 8800GT was touching to keep cool. They get very hot!

The yellow circles are the MOFSETs .

 

[Mousemonkey]

Mine are and always have been naked and nearly three years on the cards still work fine.

 

[Guest]

Hm. thanks for the clarification and advice guys!

 

[Guest]

Well, its nice to be able to report back that I successfully mounted the new cooler on my gpu and that its now idling around 40c instead of the old 55-65c (holy crap what a difference!). Since I didnt have any heatsinks handy I decided to just try it out naked as mousemonkey had mentioned doing earlier and it seems to be fine. c: