8800GT with 112 stream processors

[Fraz]

You know it's a quality mod when it involves a toilet roll!!!

[Agent]

I tend to agree that dual slot cooling solutions are better, regardless of the heat output of the actual card (ok...im excluding the bottom end range here)

I would much rather have the exact same cooling solution (copper wise) as the single slot, but with a dual slot fan / duct on it, over the current one.

Most decent cases have a fan intake at the front, and one at the back. The airflow goes much better in my experience with dual slot cards, as its almost directly taking the fresh air in at the front and venting it straight out the back, as opposed to leaving it in the case for another fan to vent out.

[MadduckUK]

that mod is terrible but functional people have been doing similar things with shuttles (the AGP slot of a SN45G is on the far left of the motherboard and very close to the side, so when you put a 2 slot cooler on a card it is actually OUTSIDE of the case, seen some very clean use of a dremel and its basically an external gfx card!) for a looooong time, and yes, it works. buut

1. this card doesnt need it, overclocking will like it but the vast majority wont do that

2. some of the cards WILL come with dual slot coolers, so there really is no argument - get what you prefer!

[Pigbristle]

The airflow goes much better in my experience with dual slot cards, as its almost directly taking the fresh air in at the front and venting it straight out the back, as opposed to leaving it in the case for another fan to vent out.

Thanks you Sir, for putting my faith back into getting a dual slot card again!

Remember it's not that dual coolers cool the graphics better, but more so that it's venting the warm air, that would otherwise be used to cool your cpu.
(much better to have cool air cooling our cpu's, don't you think ;O)

[MadduckUK]

we know this, everyone knows this - and im speaking from the viewpoint of a uATX user but that x1 PCI Express slot WILL come in useful at some point. possibly for a sound card if c-media make a tasty one for it at a good price, or possibly a RAID card if i can find one thats hardware (OS agnostic) and cheap.

[aidanjt]

Thanks you Sir, for putting my faith back into getting a dual slot card again!

Remember it's not that dual coolers cool the graphics better, but more so that it's venting the warm air, that would otherwise be used to cool your cpu.
(much better to have cool air cooling our cpu's, don't you think ;O)

Not when there's less of it. When you have more warm air displacing cool air it moves more rapidly. And frankly, if you're worried about the CPU, use a BTX style case like the Lian-Li V series cases, which honestly is the best thermal design put forward at the moment..

[Lucio]

Of course, on most motherboards if you're worried about a single slot cooler, you can always get a PCI slot blower and sit that above the card in question. Not *quite* as efficiant as an intergrated dual slot solution, but it'll work.

[Pigbristle]

we know this, everyone knows this .

Aidanjt:Twin slot cards tossing air out the back don't help

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He obviously doesn't know that!

Not when there's less of it..

Less of it! less of what?
(warm air vented out the back is just replaced with cool air from the front vents/fans)

[QUOTE=aidanjt; And frankly, if you're worried[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the concern, but no worries here, just expressing my thoughts & passing on my mod tips, that I know your all gonna use one day (ha-ha)

[aidanjt]

Less of it! less of what?
(warm air vented out the back is just replaced with cool air from the front vents/fans)

Would be that the same front vent that feeds cold air to the GPU?

Thanks for the concern, but no worries here, just expressing my thoughts & passing on my mod tips, that I know your all gonna use one day (ha-ha)

What are you?.. Like 14 years old?.. I have no need for bodge job mods involving toilet roll.

What my case does is draw in cool air right at the CPU, the CPU throws warm air up over the northbridge and then laps around to the GPU before it's expelled by a side case fan. That's how you use air pressure and thermal dynamics to efficiently cool a system.

[Pigbristle]

[QUOTE=aidanjt; What are you?.. Like 14 years old?.. .[/QUOTE]

Why!... you after Grooming me?

[Choo Choo]

Back to the 8800GT... TweakTown have their review up already and it looks seriously good. They reviewed a factory overclocked one though. I'm tempted to get one as soon as it's released, but I also want to wait to see what the new AMD card is like, which shouldn't be too far away.

MSI GeForce NX8800GT 512MB Graphics Card :: TweakTown

[crazy]

looks pretty promising

Back to the 8800GT... TweakTown have their review up already and it looks seriously good. They reviewed a factory overclocked one though. I'm tempted to get one as soon as it's released, but I also want to wait to see what the new AMD card is like, which shouldn't be too far away.

MSI GeForce NX8800GT 512MB Graphics Card :: TweakTown

look at the temps and sound test section, ........it's very loud and hot, hopefully an aftermarket cooler should sort that out

[staffsMike]

hardly suprising giving the cooling soltion though is it. The temps are tolerable and some people will only have the room for single slot.

Looks good, given the other cards a thorough pasting.

[aidanjt]

looks pretty promising

look at the temps and sound test section, ........it's very loud and hot, hopefully an aftermarket cooler should sort that out

Remember, that is a factory pre-overclocked card.

[Uriel]

Best have a good dust filter on that mod taking in air from the bottom!

If I get one of these it's going to have to be a nice silenced version, or an aftermaket cooler job. Getting tired of my X1800XT stock fan, although ATiTool does a good job of shutting it up when I'm not gaming.

Been using fan control software since the Banshee wail of my Inno3D 6600GT. That thing was nasty. Ran at a high pitched 100% all the time until I got hold of Gainward's free Expertool software. I can put up with a bit of video card noise when I'm gaming but it had better be quiet if I'm watching movies or working.

[MadduckUK]

"http://www.bootdaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=849&Itemid=51"
another review