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Old 04-02-09   #11 (permalink)
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Some nice results there. Glad your happy with them!

Might want to turn down the fans a bit. I would let them go as low as they can until you hit about 70C
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Finally got Battleaxe installed. Damn the thermal tape that came with the ram heatsinks is worthless. I knew about this problem already so I tried warming them up before attaching the heatsinks to the ram chips (as some people suggested). Needless to say two heatsinks fell of when I was installing the card so I had to go back, strip all the crappy thermal tape of the heatsinks and reapply 3M thermal tape that I bought just in case.
I know your pain..... I had an HR-03 Plus and switched back to the stock cooler (needed the space for SLI). Cooling those RAM chips has given me so much trouble... lol.

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Before with stock heatsink
675 / 1566 / 1146
Idle - 50C
Load - 68C games ( 78C - 80C AtiTool / Furmark stress testing)

With battleaxe installed using OCZ Freeze Extreme as TIM and fans to max
675 / 1566 / 1146
Idle - 42C
Load - 59C - 60C Atitool!

Haven't tried gaming yet but Im sure Crysis temps wont ever get close to Atitool temps. I was hoping that the HDT heatpipe design of the battleaxe would work really well with the huge g80 chip IHS and it really did. Dropped about 20C load temps.
Awesome!

With the stock cooler I get about the same temps as you. About 5C more or so across the board with SLI

When I had the HR-03 Plus, my idle was ~40C and peak load in ATItool was ~50C. It's a monster. But that's with a GTX though, not an Ultra.

Glad to see you can keep that beast cool.
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Just tried 720 core / 1566 shader / 1156 ram.

ATI tool peaked at 60C, really good for ambient temp of 73F / 23.7C.

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Awesome!

With the stock cooler I get about the same temps as you. About 5C more or so across the board with SLI

When I had the HR-03 Plus, my idle was ~40C and peak load in ATItool was ~50C. It's a monster. But that's with a GTX though, not an Ultra.

Glad to see you can keep that beast cool.
50C load? Hmm I was thinking about putting more powerful fans on this thing. The heatpipes/heatsink felt really warm to the touch just from 10 min of atitool.

On a sidenote when I was shopping for the Battleaxe at my local micro center I was looking around in the heatsink deparment. After finding the battleaxe I spent some more time checking out all the various stuff MC offered and to my suprise I found several boxes of...HR-03 Plus!!!

Too bad MC was selling them for $69.99 a pop, otherwise I would've probably picked it up. Weird thing is Microcenter doesn't even list it on their site that they still have several HR03+ in stock; they are so hard to find now on the internet.

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