Tainok

Heya,

I know that 'superclocked' basically means factory overclocked. (And hell, what is an Ultra REALLY besides a slightly pimped, OC'd GTX?)

Yeah, I know I probably don't NEED to, but I'm interested in pushing it. Especially now that better cards have been coming out. =D

First questions first... before I even touch any overclock settings, I want to get a solid cooling system in. Don't really want to spend more than $50, so no super fancy water cooling or anything... =)

Any advice on what's good at around or under $50 for an 8800 Ultra?

jacksknight

This...

http://www.overclock.net/hardware/sh...hp/product/924

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sgdude

the cooler on the ultra is good, just download riva tuner and ati rool. push it up a few mhz with riva tuner and then run ati tool for a couple minutes. keep doing this til it will crash, then go down to your last stable oc

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Tainok

Actually, I'm pretty sure the fan crapped out on my 8800 Ultra recently. Or something.

Was running almost up to 100C in medium-stress games (Source games, WoW, etc) and didn't even want to risk running something like Far Cry 2 or Crysis. (Glad I monitor temps...) It was actually heating up my room. Damn thing is a mini furnace.

Tested it by turning up the fan to 100% with Riva.. down to 20%... etc etc... NO CHANGE in the volume of the fan. When I've run it at 100% before to test it, it sounded like a miniature jet engine inside my PC. NO increase in sound.

Did manually check... fan is moving... but it doesn't look like it's fast enough. So I popped the plastic casing off the card, left the fan/heatsinks etc. on, and just pointed a small personal fan inside the case right onto the card. (Airflow direction isn't a huge issue - it's a tech station)

Temps dropped down to ~50C idle, sub 70C on normal load (usually 63C-65C, spiking to MAYBE 70C if things get hectic), peaking at ~72-75C in Far Cry 2. So yeah, I'm pretty sure the fan crapped out. Just want to get a more effective cooling system now.

Tainok

Read up on this. Says not compatible with 8800 Ultra?

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...-review-2.html

Amdkillsintel

Yeah, its better than the 8800 GTX's, I'm folding right now and fan is at 60s%, though temps are still high 70s to low 80s.

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kremtok

If you have only one card, this may work well for your cooling.

Tainok

I'm going to be purchasing an HR-03+ (used) from somebody on the forums, hopefully soon.

So I'll be going with that.




Next step... OC'ng...

Pencil modding an 8800 Ultra. Is it worth it? Anybody got any links? And from what I understand, the Ultra is essentially the same as a GTX, just slightly improved. So GTX guides on pencil modding should apply?