Is your Club3D card the same as a powercolor card in the Puget review? For example, I tried both fanless powercolor 5750 and gigabyte 5750 silent cell, the gigabyte easily reaches 100 degrees while powercolor maxed in the 80's.

theres a few heatsinks in the upper echelon of performance with the d14, silver arrow, silver arrow's twin brother Cocage something arrow, thermalright hr-02, They're all $70+ usd. Here's a review on hr-02 vs. d14 (fanless + fans) http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/thermalright-hr02.ht...

my fanless HIS 4670 w/ stock isilence heatsink idles about 4-8w lower than my saphire 3870...also for those looking for a reference ati 4670...my brother bought a dell desktop and it came with normal ati branded 4850...so maybe the big systems builders carries them.

i use yesbuy for $4-$5 yate loons - they usually have free shipping promotions on these.

i had a similar problem. while idle-ing, my seasonic power meter would spike about 30watts, it drove me crazy and i was dead sure the cause was ati drivers. after some careful inspector gadgeting, turns out the culprit was google desktop...it would start indexing while my system was idle and only st...

i ordered 2x140mm yate loons from them some months ago. price was dirt cheap, $5ea w/ free shipping, couldnt pass that up. No replies for 3 weeks, my fans did arrive eventually but omg, they just threw the fans into a paper shipping bag w/out padding...i was suprised they weren't shattered.

heres my setup/temps: coolermaster cosmos-3 fans (2 top, 1 back) negative pressure e4500 w/ passive ninja p35-ds3p 3870 w/ passive accelero s1 6 HDD's the 3870 idles around 35C and has gone up to 55C under load. Have not really stressed it much though, mainly used 3dmark06 to test temps/power draw. ...

just curious, was the original ninja reviewed w/ the top end caps OFF like in the picture???

i'm building my new rig this weekend, i'll see if theres a temp diff w/ the end caps off/on.

i used to have a 24" sun (sony rebadged) crt that literally heated up my 8'x6' room when left on. i measured the socket power draw of some monitors in my house: 24" crt ~ 125w 24" lcd ~ 40w 46" lcd ~ 97-269w depending on backlight setting. i'm currently using my 46" lcd at "0" backlight level and it...

i'd suggest the 3870. amd/ati just cut prices, 3850 =$169 / 3870 = $189, you get more memory, more performance and they more or less use the same amt of power at idle.

Okay, I tested some power settings, it doesn't QUITE make sense yet. CPU load was stressed with Prime 95 25.5 small FFTs. 3.60 GHz, 1.25625V, 75W idle / 121W load 3.0 GHz, 1.2250V, 74W idle / 105W load 3.0GHz, 1.150V, 73W idle / 107W load 3.0GHz, 1.10V, 73W idle / 95W load (-0.1V on RAM) On that la...

any chance it fits the 7800gs? i havent found an aftermarket cooler thats compatible w/ this card yet.

CA_Steve wrote:Anand weighs in

seems like DES isn't all its marketed up to be. Using Easy Tune 5/changing Vcore in bios would net bigger energy savings.

do all charge tax to CA?

thats the main reason i don't buy from the egg.

warning about the cheapo cosmos grommets...they've been known to melt because 10k raptors produce that much heat.

Please Accelero, make an 8800 Ultra compatible version (preferably with RAM cooling too)! LOL...it sounds like you're asking the accelero module to make itself compatible instead of hoping Arctic Cooling will. It's too late for the gtx, lets hope nvidia makes its dual g92 gpu and g100 gpu compatibl...

when will SATA 3.0 make an appearance?

i am waiting for 45nm core2quads

Case: Coolermaster Cosmos CPU: lowest intel q9xxx core2quad proc. o/c'd to 3ghz and undervolted as much as possible - cooled w/ passive ninja GPU: either 1gb 3850/3870/8800gt - doesn't matter which card but 1gb of memory is needed because i game/surf on a 1080p screen - cooled w/ passive accelero s1...

is it possible for nvidia to come up w/ a powerplay equivalent program?

i'd like to have low power consumption while i'm just surfing the net but i need performance while gaming...best of both worlds...hard to choose between ati and nvidia right now...

There is an S1 revision 2 out that gurantees fitment w/ 3850/3870 and 8800GT/8800GTS 512

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=147

dammit.. i just bought 2 S1's that are now obsolete...=(

how does it compare passively vs the ninja?

1 thing i dont like about thermalright is they nickel plate everything...it looks chromy and cheap...like they're trying to bling their products...and can that be good for cooling?

Honestly, if the S1 turns out to be equivalent to the HR 03 GT in performance.. I am gonna cry! Turns out last week.. just one week after I got my HR 03 GT.. they had a massive sale on the S1s..

where and how much?

that is really kewl looking!

but performance-wise it probably can't beat this 'stock' quad heatpipe 8800gt.

http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Produc ... 52&LanID=9

how is that motherboard btw? i am thinking of using that mobo in my next build but can't decide whether i should get a pcie 2 mobo instead..i bought an agp board back when pcie 1 came out and don't want to make the same mistake this time around.

guys guys while i agree most coolermaster stuff (coolers, power supplies, fans) are pretty generic in quality, their cases are pretty badass. I have a wavemaster and cosmos sitting in my room and while both are nowhere near perfect, they are/were ahead of their time. i've seen alotta 'free after reb...

Lawrence Lee wrote:=Don't even think about, just buy it. It's $20 US/CDN at NCIX right now.

shows $30 for me...nvm just bought 2 for $46 after tax/shipping from ewiz.

Anybody experiencing squealing on the 3870 whilst moving your mouse cursor around? I'd hate to end up with an 8800GT because of this. System specs in sig. I used to have the same prob...turned out my mobo was notorious for this cuz of their crappy onboard audio. I bought a cheap sound blaster pci c...

isn't the only diff. between 3850/3870 are clockspeed and memory size/type? plz chime in if i'm wrong. i also read somewhere that ati is planning on dropping their retail price by $20 for both cards, should take effect after the holidays when stock should be plentiful. i have a 8800gt on order from ...

S1 is dirt cheap (inexpensive) compared to other vga coolers on the market but if additional sinks are needed for mosfets like swiftech mc21 that does increase the overall price by $10 (40-50%). i've got aluminum heatsinks from various computer parts that would be perfectly cheap mc21 alternatives,....

i'd like to see a performance comparsion between the AC S1 passive and w/ turbo module vs. thermalrights hr03 variants and zalmans ridiculously priced all copper vf-1000 to see who is the modern day king of vga cooling =)