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Old 05-03-05   #1 (permalink)
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ok, i have about $40 to spend on a BFG 6600GT cooler. what is the best one that i can get for that price. i was looking at the Zalman. Newegg only please.
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Since you say in your profile that water cooling is coming soon, why don't you wait and watercool the vid card too?
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Since you say in your profile that water cooling is coming soon, why don't you wait and watercool the vid card too?
i agree with slowputer. a gpu bllock is only like $50, but if you wanna be stubborn, get the arctic silencer.
http://www.frozencpu.com/vid-48.html

it's only $30, but it's prolly the best aircooling ur gonna get for a 6600gt
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well i talked to my brother about water cooling and he said that i should just wait until i build my next comp. my case isnt well designed for WC. anyway, are there anymore cooling options???
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ok, i have about $40 to spend on a BFG 6600GT cooler. what is the best one that i can get for that price. i was looking at the Zalman. Newegg only please.
I put a Zalman VF700-cu on mine and load temps dropped around 23*C. No kidding (with AS5).

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the VGA silencer is the best but if it doesn't suit ur fancy try this one out it looks like a winner

http://www.xoxide.com/zalman-vf700-cu-vga-cooler.html

EDIT: waffles beat me to it!!!!!
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yeah, the zalman VF700Cu's are damn nice GPU coolers for the cash - they even come with ramsinks to use - definitely my suggestion for a 6600
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the zalman works great. at full load I dont go over mid 50's now.
only thing thoe. to get the ram sinks to fully cover the ram you have to make some modifications to them.
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waffles sais that the arctic silencer is a great cooler. what do yall think about this one.

what kind of mods do u mean u have to do.
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if your card is agp like Im assuming, it wont fit.
the only air cooler that will fit a 6600GT agp is the zalman.

Im getting ready to write up how to modify the ramsinks so they will fit, if you all like it I'll make it a faq.

EDIT: ok I made a faq on moding the ramsinks. hopefully that will give you an idea of how to mod em if you choose to use this cooler.
http://www.overclock.net/faqs/23343-how-modify-zalman-vf700-cu-ram.html
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