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A Heatsink For An X1900XT?

Postby White » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:06 pm

Well i'm planning on purchasing a Radeon X1900XT and was just looking over the reviews and some people were complaining about cooling...

So i've been looking around and could only find a couple after market coolers...

So i'm just curious if anyone on here has an X1900XT or something close to it and if they could help point me in the direction of a heatsink for it...
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:15 am

I don't think you may need one. It seems to already have a fan and a copper heatsink on it. I'm sure you will be fine. Install it correctly and the heat should flow out of your computer Sapphire is a 3rd party Radeon distributor though. I don't think they'd be less reliable. (anyone know if they can explain that to me?) My friend runs a sapphire though, and he's all good.
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Postby Sync » Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:14 am

the Zalman VF900-Cu seems to be the only 3rd party cooling unit to support the X1900 series so far, another $50.
Though I'd be wary about the weight since I dont see a stronger retention system included. I have the CNPS-7700 cooler for my CPU and it's over 900grams, but thats supported by four more screws above that holding the motherboard to the case; compared to the ~200grams for the VF900 GPU which would be hanging under your card with minimal support from the expansion bay screw and the PCI-E connector pins. Maybe prop a stick of legos under the card at two spots to hold it up or something ¯\(º_o)/¯
The thermal paste Zalman puts in their boxes is terrible too, so grab some Arctic Silver.
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Postby White » Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:35 pm

Anyone know of any single, all-in-one VGA water coolers? I know there's one out there made by, Thermaltake I think but the complaints on it were mainly about it not cooling newer cards well...

So I was curious if anyone knows of any other coolers like this?
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