I will provide some more solid figures once I can do more testing. I will also attempt some undervolting/clocking as well and see if it makes any measurable difference. One of my primary disappointments with the DH67GD (the H67 predecessor to the DH77EB) is that it doesn't offer processor voltage a...

Heh, no question, a well designed graphics heatsink mounted directly to a 120mm side fan exhaust is the ideal. Only problem with such being that no one makes such a heatsink for graphics cards. But, a lot more possible to mount a CPU cooler on the 8800's thanks to them at long last using a heatsprea...

as my card has severely heated my case up!!! Heh, and using an HR-03 of any sort will only make that worse, not better. They vent the heat out the back for a reason - enough heat is generated that most pre-built systems wouldn't have enough case airflow to keep the case temp low enough if it didn't...

The 9800pro is probably closest to an X800 GT. The X800 GT has two more vertex shaders and a bit higher core/memory clocks, but not a whole lot. 7900GS is definitely the best of those cards listed - it's the only one with 256 bit memory bus, and is 20 'pipeline' versus 12 for the 7600's. There are a...

Eh, my version of load tends to be a few hours of playing some game or another at 1920x1080 - I'm rather certain that Oblivion at that resolution is GPU limited with a 3 GHz core 2 :wink: Yes, the VF-900 would let the core temp get up to around 55C above ambient under those conditions with the fan a...

Doesn't matter much now, but the alternate cooling solution for an X1900XT I went with was the Thermaltake AT1. Yeah, it's not up to the same quality as the ArcticCooling products the design is based off of, and the spec 'claims' are a bit misleading, but it -does- do a good job cooling. At full fan...

Heh, I somewhat doubt that anyone's looking for a replacement cooler for the 8800 series because it'd be pretty difficult to top the stock cooling. Just look a few threads down about the discussion on 8800 stock noise levels - at idle chances are it'll be silent amidst other components, and under lo...

Heh, too bad that Thermaltake didn't have the decency to license the design, but not terribly surprising. Equally disappointing that Arctic Cooling simply abandoned the design - I'd think the fact that the current high end graphics card stock coolers are based on the same idea would be a pretty stro...

No question that their claim of 16dBA for the AT1 definitely can't be at a standard 1m distance. It's probably valid at 3m or some other unspecified distance - typical misleading marketing. Don't let the idiot marketing department discredit good engineering though. In terms of the airflow and heatsi...

Just happened to see them on frozencpu.com as I was looking at other things. I wouldn't expect that it will be all too long before they're more widely available though, seeing as how mass availability seems to be something that thermaltake's good at. Oh, and a little update, I changed the voltage on...

Decided to try the AT1 for my X1900XT since the design sure looked to be good. Have never had an actual AC model that this design type is based upon, so can't comment on quality differences really. Package comes with everything that could be necessary to mount, but the backplate seemed to be about 1...