mjdude23

I have an ATI Radeon X300 in the system thats in my signature. The card came with the computer. I have no idea how long I've had it. I'm guessing 3 years. I'm wondering what I should do to cool the X300 inside. I can seem to overclock it much without it getting hot. What should I do to cool it? And should I just try to cool the whole computer with it or not? Only the GPU is overclocked, just so you know.

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Added some pictures of my desk, tower, and ventilation situation.

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BountyHead

Does your X300 have a passive hsf on it? if it does zip tying a fan to it will help with temps quite a bit. And as for your cooling situation. if you can move the tower out of that enclosed space you will see a significant drop in temperatures. Also define hot, most video cards can handle really high temps usually in the high 80c.

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mjdude23

I'm just feeling the side of the tower where the card is. I just don't want it to get over about 75c.

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nathris

Chances are its passive, and you aren't going to get too much out of it anyways . Its a budget card so even if you liquid cooled it and got a 300mhz core + memory overclock it would still get stomped by a lowly X700.


You shouldn't go for aftermarket cooling since the HSF should never be worth more than the card its cooling!

RAFFY

just refer to my post on ATI cooling mod. it works great.

http://www.overclock.net/ati-cooling...rks-great.html