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    VM-101 on a X1600XT

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    I've got an old passive cooler that's been on my GF4 Ti4200 for a while now, but I've gone PCI-E and got a X1600XT. Anyhow here's a link to the VM-101.

    It claims upto X850 and 6800GT, anyone know how the heat output compares?


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    Shameless bump

    Anyone better at finding the thermal output of gfx cards than me? I might just risk it, the card doesn't have an external power connector like the X850 and a lot smaller a heaksink and fan so it can't be any warmer really can it?

    Going to have to recover the passive cooler from home over Easter so I'll find out in 2 weeks whether it cooks too much.

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    well its not going to instantly fry if you put it on and its not good enough worth a try just make sure you keep an eye on the temp using ATI tool or something

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    No temperature monitoring or fan control, that's half the problem! It's a shame because I got the GF4 for £20 of overclockers (don't shout it was b-grade and just what I needed (dual dvi)) which had temperature control and a variable speed fan - vivo as well, Asus really do make some good products!

    That was quite a tangent, but anyhow I'll keep an eye out for artifacts and see how I do.

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    The X850 XT PE ran very hot so if it could deal with that a X1600 should be no problem.

    The X850 and 6800GT also required additional power (6pin for PCI-E, molex for AGP) which I don't believe the X1600, so logically the X1600 must use less power.

    Will that however actually FIT on a X1600?

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    I think it's got the required holes, haven't got them both on me at the moment so we'll find out in 2 weeks!

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    Well looking at the Asus silent on the size of the heatsink and them both having 2 heatpipes looks promising. Fingers crossed!

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    Well it feels pretty warm but still touchable and no sign of artifacts.

    The whole computer is practically silent now though which is great, 120mm case fan, 120mm PSU fan and 92mm CPU fan all running between 600-800 rpm.

    My only issue is it takes up the PCI-Ex1 slot above with the great big heatsink, and the PCI slot below due to the screws sticking out just slightly too much from the GPU block. I've got a PCI wireless card and the mobo is mATX so I'll have to rely on usb if I want to expand further.

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