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| Thread ID: 48498 | 2004-08-25 01:35:00 | GeForce 4 cooler on a Geforce FX - will it work? | wintertide (1306) | Press F1 |
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| 265075 | 2004-08-25 01:35:00 | I want to get a new chipset cooler for my GeForce FX 5600 video card. The video RAM has no heatsinks on it so I was wondering if I could use a GeForce 4 chipset cooler on it instead of the monsterous GeForce FX/ATI Radeon coolers that cover both sides of the card. I'm looking at using ThermalTake gear as I can get it relatively cheap. Anyone know if this will work? Thanks, Wintertide |
wintertide (1306) | ||
| 265076 | 2004-08-25 01:41:00 | Why not just buy BGA ram sinks? Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 265077 | 2004-08-25 01:42:00 | Hang on... did I read correctly when you say your FX5600 has no GPU cooler?? | Lohsing (219) | ||
| 265078 | 2004-08-25 01:50:00 | > Hang on... did I read correctly when you say your > FX5600 has no GPU cooler?? No the ram not the gpu. Is the card running hot (more specifically is the ram) or are you going to overclock it? Otherwise I wouldn't bother. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 265079 | 2004-08-25 01:52:00 | Yeah - in that case BGA ramsinks are cheap as chips. $16 I think. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 265080 | 2004-08-25 02:02:00 | The card cooler that's currently on it looks cheap & nasty and it's real noisy too. The card doesn't seem to be running hot and I may overclock in the future but I haven't had much luck with overclocking on my board so I probably will leave it at stock speeds. |
wintertide (1306) | ||
| 265081 | 2004-08-25 02:12:00 | What Thermaltake GF4 cooler in particular are you planning on using? Something like this (www.thermaltake.com) perhaps? You could consider the Giant 2 it would be more than enough to cool a FX5600, i have found if you mod it a lil and put the big plate on the top of the card and the lil plate on the GPU it cools better. THis way you have a bigger area to dissapate the heat through. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 265082 | 2004-08-25 04:18:00 | how much cheaper can you get Thermaltake stuff because in all the reviews i red of this: www.ascent.co.nz it got a 10/10. It comes with ram sinks. Ascent has free delivering. there are some review links from here: www.overclockers.co.nz |
fus1_n (3818) | ||
| 265083 | 2004-08-25 04:20:00 | Yep, that's the GeForce 4 cooler that I'm looking at getting... I don't want to get the ThermalTake Giant 2 because it's just too big and it seems like an overkill. I would have quoted the names of the ThermalTake coolers but I didn't have them in front of me at the time of the post. | wintertide (1306) | ||
| 265084 | 2004-08-25 04:24:00 | Well, I can get the GeForce 4 cooler for around $25 and the Giant 2 for around $45 (both prices with GST included) Ahh, the benefits of working for a computer place with supplier accounts... :D |
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