Bad luck putting 3rd party heatsink last time. Try it again?
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:59 pm
I put an Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer 9600XT and it didn't work afterwards. I've seen a couple posts about other people having similar problems (but having success by putting the stock heatsink back on). Most of the time the diagnosis I read (in my case as well) was a short circuit due to the heatsink or the TIM or something. Strangely I haven't heard any problems with any other vid card.
My 9600 ended up breaking (seemingly) beyond repair because after getting it to work with the VGA Silencer, I left it on over night, only to wake up the next morning to see that it had the same symptoms as it did when it wouldn't even boot up (after attempting to restart, I got the same distinct series of beeps, plus something was whining fairly loudly). I imagine it was the same short circuit. However, several hours of being like that overnight may have caused permanent damage to the vid card.
Anyway I'm getting a BFG 6800OC NU which I expect to be loud. I'm gonna do some case dampening, but I doubt I'll achieve anything in the near vicinity of silence unless I switch heatsinks. But after the 9600, I don't want to destroy this (more expensive) card right away, and the Arctic Cooling offerings don't seem that great with the clicking and the noise. Will they come up with a Rev 2 that fixes at least the clicking? Any ideas on what I should do?
If I get the Arctic Cooling, will hooking it up to an external fan controller and lowering the voltage provide decent cooling while lowering noise and eliminating clicking? I don't plan on overclocking much. Thanks.
My 9600 ended up breaking (seemingly) beyond repair because after getting it to work with the VGA Silencer, I left it on over night, only to wake up the next morning to see that it had the same symptoms as it did when it wouldn't even boot up (after attempting to restart, I got the same distinct series of beeps, plus something was whining fairly loudly). I imagine it was the same short circuit. However, several hours of being like that overnight may have caused permanent damage to the vid card.
Anyway I'm getting a BFG 6800OC NU which I expect to be loud. I'm gonna do some case dampening, but I doubt I'll achieve anything in the near vicinity of silence unless I switch heatsinks. But after the 9600, I don't want to destroy this (more expensive) card right away, and the Arctic Cooling offerings don't seem that great with the clicking and the noise. Will they come up with a Rev 2 that fixes at least the clicking? Any ideas on what I should do?
If I get the Arctic Cooling, will hooking it up to an external fan controller and lowering the voltage provide decent cooling while lowering noise and eliminating clicking? I don't plan on overclocking much. Thanks.