Krey

I have an x850xt on the way from Newegg, arriving tomorrow.

I also have a Zalman vf700-cu installed on the 9800xt I'm currently using.

Should I switch from the stock x850xt cooler to the Zalman?

The cooling on the x850xt looks pretty beefy, is the Zalman gonna be any better?

The_Manual

I would personally fork out a bit of extra cash and get an ATI silencer, that will keep it nice and cool and it won't be as noisy as the stock cooler.

You could put your Zalman cooler on it and see if its cooler, I have no experience with that cooler but I would think that it would still be better than the stock X850 cooler.

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SPHERE

the ati x8xx scilencers have alot of contact problems i know i have one and ive seen it happen to alot of people

if i was u id put the zalman on the x850 cause it is sertaltly better than the stock x850 hs i have both of those aswell

rustler753

If you can get a artic silencer 5 series by all means use it! Some people say some contact problems but think about it, do you want that hot air circulating around the graphics card with zalmans cooler. Hell it cooled my x800 by 20C!! thats right, celcius. I now idle at 40C and full load is just 55C for my graphics card. And its overclocked like crazy. Get the silencer, by all means

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systemshock869

with my x850xt (while it was working) i idle at 32-36c and at full load get into low 50s - thats with all the hot air circulating around my zalman

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SPHERE

yah my zalman has 10c on my scilencer and here are some more bad points about the sclencer big hits everything slides around on the card yah thats right imine slid around the card by as mich as 1 and 1/2 cm the aluminum ramsinks on the zalman cool alot better than the scilencer the zalman gave me 15mhz more on the ram oc