VGa cooler for 6600GT in Shuttle

p00hbear · Post by **p00hbear** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:49 am

I have purchased and installed a XFX 6600GT gamers edition into my SB83G5M shuttle in the PCI-E slot. I have a Terratec 1400 DVBT card in PCI slot aswell. Currently the GT is very noisy and accounts for 80% of the sound. I would like a VGA cooling solution which will make it silent or less noisy than the stock fan and be able to fit into the shuttle as there is not much room. Anyone has this setup?

I've seen passive Zalman and Thermaltake solutions but they seem to cover the card alot and I'm not sure I have the space required. Also as they are passive, it'll heat up much more right? I also looked at the zalman vf700 quiet fan but again if someone can confirm it will fit that would be good.

Specs of rest of hardware, P4 3.4 HT 540J, 2 x 1Gb crucial 3200 ram, 74gb raptor, 300gb wd sata, pioneer 109. Currentl idle temps range from 50-55 on idle.

jamesm · Post by **jamesm** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:47 am

the vf700 will take up the pci slot below the video card.

hazindu · Post by **hazindu** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:50 am

I have shuttle xp for my backup\lan needs, and I use a vantec iceberq 4 at 5volts to cool my radeon 9500pro. Even at 12 volts it is much quieter than the stock cooling was, and at 5 volts it still cools alot better than the stock unit did. Even at 5 volts, I wouldn't call it silent, but it was a huge improvement for me.
btw, if you do get one, remove the purple plastic thing from the top of it. When I first put it in my shuttle I could hear the fan pulling air through the vent holes, but when I removed the purple thing the fan was effectively distanced from the vent holes and the vacuum sound went away.

the psu is far noisier than the iceberq 4 at 5 volts

p00hbear · Post by **p00hbear** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:49 am

what about returning my 6600gt and getting a fanless version? I hear gigabyte do a heatpipe version? is this good? Are there other alternatives?

jamesm · Post by **jamesm** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:46 am

gigabyte does have a heatpipe version - model # GV-NX66T128VP

p00hbear · Post by **p00hbear** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:55 am

Yes I noticed on the Gigabyte site, around £133. Does anyone know whether this has heat issues - it's going to go in a shuttle.

AZBrandon · Post by **AZBrandon** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:14 pm

Well I just ordered the Gigabyte fanless 6600 (non-GT) AGP version for my Biostar SFF. I imagine it will be next Tuesday or Wednesday before it arrives, but once it does, I'll test it out and see how bad the temperature situation is in a SFF PC.