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Took off the stock cooler/heatsink, and mounted a Zalman VF900, and recieved the exact same temps loading and idle, the thing about these 8800gtx deals, is they come equiped with the Heat Spreader, over the chip, making direct cooling impossible, it's like no matter what you add you still are going through a layer of useless metal rendering said (air) cooling methods useless.
this is NOT my picture, just an example of the heat spreader covering up the chip.
So basically the heat spreader is held on with epoxy, so dont try and take it off because you will rip off some very important crap. And dont bother trying to rig up air cooling lol because if a vf900 can't get a single degree drop then what can?
btw GPU was sitting at 52 degrees in idle, with stock and vf900.

this is NOT my picture, just an example of the heat spreader covering up the chip.
So basically the heat spreader is held on with epoxy, so dont try and take it off because you will rip off some very important crap. And dont bother trying to rig up air cooling lol because if a vf900 can't get a single degree drop then what can?
btw GPU was sitting at 52 degrees in idle, with stock and vf900.