Kcjr54

It should be here tomorrow so i am investigating now. What is the best cooling for a ATI 9800 XT. The "stock" cooling looks like it will work but i am all about cooler temps.

I never even installed the stock CPU cooler.

Links are the most helpful and thanks in advance.

Ken

P.S. I like partial to Zalman.

Leprachuan

for VGA cooling look into the artic VGA silencer it does a great job with cooling and dumps the hot air outside the case so ur case temps go down too. killing two birds with one stone kinda thing. heres a review of it http://www.atruereview.com/arcticcooler/index.php

edit: btw there are many revisions of the VGA silencer make sure u get the one that fits the 9800xt

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SPHERE

well im gonna have to disagree with leprachuan on this one cause i had a artic scilencer on my x850 and it was a total load of crap it only cooled a little better than the stock cooler and didnt make good contact with anything si i went out and bought a zalman vf700-cu and walla instant 10c cooler idle and 15 load i cant say enough good things about that cooler

load stock 75 artic scilencer 73 zalman vf700-cu 60-(65 on a hot day)
and idle stock 60 artic scilencer 55 zalman 40-45

ps. the zalman is compatible with a 9800

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This is a bit offtopic but how much did you buy your 9800XT for?

Kcjr54

you really dont want to know because i hate knowing, knowing what i know now.

but i paid 275 shipped "only used for 5 months" it works great but still

shoulda looked around more

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Kcjr54

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