[Mikey122687]

as i was trying to see which brand has better cooling, it came across this one question that i had in mind, does evga has proper cooling??? i heard asus is the best at doing that, here is the link if u want to check it out
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...130-203&depa=0

 

[steveo42024]

I heard no matter which one you get the gpu just runs really hot. Best thing you can do is slap on a artic cooling fan and some artic silver 5 and hope for the best.

 

[w4r_m4chin3]

I got an eVGA card, and if you dont plan on overclocking, it wont burn out. However, compared to the others, it's probably the loudest. Thats exactly why I got an Arctic Silencer NV5 and slapped on a little bit of Arctic Silver 5 and it runs cooler than ice at 380/800 (stock 325/700).

Unfortunetly, a cooling-fan upgrade will get you an instant warranty void, so BE CAREFUL NOT TO SCRATCH ANYTHING WHILE INSTALLING!!!!!

 

[RunningRioT]

my friend bought that, and in a 25 degree case temp, his card was at 57 or so.. idle

 

[adas]

the leadtek has the best cooler, then the bfg special one. but its easier to just get the evga and buy an artic silencer 5

 

[Ket]

BFG use dual fan copper cooling solutions, not sure if its on all their cards but that cooler rocks.

 

[steveo42024]

heard bfg's cooling isnt that great

 

[adas]

its definatly better then the refernece cooling. and it comes on the 6800OC and the 6800GT OC...but not all of them, they have 2 different models

 

[Burn]

get an iceberg 4/ iceberg 4 pro depending on what card you have....cools my 5600 great

 

[Ket]

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Originally Posted by steveo420 heard bfg's cooling isnt that great

worst i heard is the coolers having poor contact, nothing a remount didnt fix, after that i was reading ppl getting max temps of like 55c load

 

[adas]

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Originally Posted by ATVkid*AFZ* get an iceberg 4/ iceberg 4 pro depending on what card you have....cools my 5600 great

thats not quite enough for a 6800gt...unless u LIKE 80*c idles lol

 

[Ket]

good way to BURN the GPU in i guess

 

[adas]

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Originally Posted by Ket good way to BURN the GPU in i guess

haha...yeah...and smoke it to..u could probly get high while OCing your vid card

 

[Burn]

heh....i getcha...that new sandwich cooler from tt is supposed to be awesome.

 

[Ket]

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Originally Posted by adas123 haha...yeah...and smoke it to..u could probly get high while OCing your vid card

while cooking a full fry up on the GPU too

 

[GateCrasher_VI]

i just got my card, the one in question, like a week ago. (In NEVER fails that the part i buy goes on sale 1-2 weeks after i decide to finally buy it, this is the fourth time!!)

and i think the cooling on this card is great. I couldn't hear it over my 6 fan case, so as for sound... *shrug*

but do yourself a favor if you plan on OC'ing... if you buy this card, buy some arctic silver 5 at the same time. And re-install the heatsink, with the AS5 on there. That'd be just as cool as getting an arctic silencer 5 (which is what i did)

my GPU runs at 48 celcius idleing, granted its a little nippy in the house right now. but it did run at 61 degrees stock. So i can't say it'll drop down to 48 just from Asilver5 *shrug* i absolutely love this card though. you're lookin at one of the best deals (in terms of cost/performance ratio) out there for this class of GPU.

The way i saw it was, "I just saved 100$ by chosing this card. I guess i'll order some decent cooling stuff to stick on there with the money i saved."

Turned out to be the best purchase i've made yet building my first rig.

 

[GateCrasher_VI]

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Originally Posted by steveo420 I heard no matter which one you get the gpu just runs really hot. Best thing you can do is slap on a artic cooling fan and some artic silver 5 and hope for the best.

really the only instance i've seen of this card running really hot was when i updated from the 66.93 drivers to the 71.20/71.20b driver. (not sure if it was the beta or not)

i gained in my scores. but at the cost of almost 10 or more degrees.