WaLshy11

Overclocking is a reason.

It doesnt require extra heatsinks for RAM. Chris was just unlucky that he got a bent backplate/one that doesnt stick properly. Almost all other reviews I have read were fine with the RAM heatsinks.

This main coolers issue is the VRM heatsink. You can use the stock one, or try some other thermal tape, but yes, it should work straight out of the box.

Those VRM temps seem kinda low to me, even on idle. A screenshot of those temps using GPU-Z would be appricated

Wahkee

wheres a good place to get those zalman sinks tho? cheapest i can find is at amazon

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Chris Ihao

Thanks for the kind words. When all comes to all though, I'm sort of satisfied with having my personalized GTX280 in my box, even if it cost me extra. Some build model ships or tanks, I built my own damned good cooler out of this accelero.

PS: Your card does seem awfully well cooled with stock cooler, even for a good mount. Are you living in an igloo perchance?


Hi WaLshy11. I dont think I'm just unlucky to be frank, as a friend of mine has told me about several reportings of this adhesive being under par, and people experiencing heatsinks falling off under use. Not the thing you would like to happen amongst all the fans and expensive equipment in there.

Its almost wierd than none of the reviews I checked before buying this card mentioned any of the issues I had, as I seriously doubt they have ironed out these problems before I got the cooler. Its a known fact though that certain reviewers tend to skimp on the negative aspects to stay on the good side of the companies they get their equipment from. Not that I think this necessarily is the case in these specific reviews.

The backplate, in the event of being completely straight, would be another matter though. As long as it just lays on the top of the card inside the box, it probably works just fine. I wouldnt bet on it though, as mine really didnt stick at all. You should be careful when moving the computer or taking out the card, as it takes nothing to unsettle it from the ram chips. Hold the card against a lightsource to check if contact is good.

Anyways, when you get the cooler WaLshy11, please post in this thread and I'll update the review with your eventual positive/negative experiences.

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Danman1280

lulz, nah.. What I did is i took off the stock HS and just replaced the cooling compound w/ arctic silver. And my load temp are with a overclock of 703/1450/1300... Also, I slapped a accelero s1 rev.2 on my old 8800gt that i did a soft v-mod on, and got crazy good temps on. So its just disappointing that a great company like AC overlooked something like that.

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bluedevil

Yeah mine idles at that too.....with no load. Mine does about 50-60C while folding though....

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Danman1280

yeah see, thats way lower than most...

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Chris Ihao

Yeah. With no load. Thats key Even my flawed ac vrm hs idled at 30c+. Temperatures quickly rise when under oc load though.

Both of you, nice temps with that stock hs!

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Danman1280

ill post pics with under load in a little. Im about to go eat lunch!

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My temps under load:



(Moderately heated room, in comparison to the useful rather hot)

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Update. After running about 15 minutes of atitool cube, in a hotter room than above:



Funny. Looks like it has decreased a few degrees since before I was away for 4 days. Probably the arctic silver settling in. That makes it a 30 degrees celcius drop from the AC vrm hs then.

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Danman1280

so what did you do about cooling the VRMs??? cause thats epic!

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