Best silent 9600GT!

tifozif1 · Post by **tifozif1** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:12 pm

Hi all,

I have an ECS 9600GT (the "nvidia cooler") and I am quite happy with the temperatures idle (43) and "crysis gaming" (62), but my PC is also a "media" server and it is 24/7 on, so ... I am looking for the bios of Gigabyte GeForce 9600 GT passive cooled (GV-NX96T512HP).

As I read in meny internet review has different 2D (idle) settings so its consumes less in windows desktop.

Can anyone help me with this ?

P.S. My first post here and happy to be with you

JVM · Post by **JVM** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:44 pm

Not sure I understand, but if you are looking for the Gigabyte 9600 GT (GV-NX96T512HP):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814125098

tifozif1 · Post by **tifozif1** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:52 pm

I don't need the Giagabyte card, I need the bios of this card to give it a look and try to modify my ECS 9600GT bios so it would also have different 2D/3D clocks and volts (as the Gigabyte 9600GT) so the power consumption (and heat) of my 24/7 system is lower

edh · Post by **edh** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:29 am

tifozif1 wrote:I don't need the Giagabyte card, I need the bios of this card to give it a look and try to modify my ECS 9600GT bios so it would also have different 2D/3D clocks and volts (as the Gigabyte 9600GT) so the power consumption (and heat) of my 24/7 system is lower

My experiments with this haven't worked yet. It must be possible as that Gigabyte card does it, it's just any time I setup 2D/3D speeds as I would with any other card, it seems to take an entirely different set of clocks, all of the time!

tifozif1 · Post by **tifozif1** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:21 am

edh wrote:My experiments with this haven't worked yet. It must be possible as that Gigabyte card does it, it's just any time I setup 2D/3D speeds as I would with any other card, it seems to take an entirely different set of clocks, all of the time!

Yes, that is exactly what I deal with, that is why I need this bios, in order to find out a solution.

noneofcon · Post by **noneofcon** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:35 pm

about the gigabyte 9600gt, in reading some reviews i've noticed two things.
1.) this card seems to run rather hot, but i'm wondering how much of a temp improvement there would be by lowering the clock speeds to a stock card (since its factory overclocked).
2. the heat sink doesn't cover the ram chips. could this be an issue?

and a more general question: how does one reduce/elimate "coil whine"? (since some people have reported that problem with the card). ie. how loud do the fans have to be to cover the noise?

krille · Post by **krille** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:58 am

So, Asus GeForce 9600GT 512MB GDDR3 Silent PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI-I/HDCP, V-Cool?
http://af.komplett.se/k/ki.aspx?sku=349840

Or Gigabyte GeForce 9600GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI/HDCP, Heatpipe?
http://af.komplett.se/k/ki.aspx?sku=348339

Which one?

Thanks!

JVM · Post by **JVM** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:08 am

Neither! This one doesn't have any coil whine and runs cool: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814134040

krille · Post by **krille** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:18 pm

JVM wrote:Neither! This one doesn't have any coil whine and runs cool: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814134040

I can't get ECS where I live. :'(

Would perhaps getting an eVGA 9600GT and strapping on an Accelero S1 be better?

JVM · Post by **JVM** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:24 pm

krille wrote:
JVM wrote:Neither! This one doesn't have any coil whine and runs cool: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814134040
I can't get ECS where I live. :'(

Would perhaps getting an eVGA 9600GT and strapping on an Accelero S1 be better?

The Accelero S1 should be fine, even the Accelero S2 would be fine. I know the ECS version with Accelero S2 has little heat sinks on the card, but i don't know if the eVGA also has those heat sinks.

krille · Post by **krille** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:34 pm

JVM wrote:
krille wrote:
JVM wrote:Neither! This one doesn't have any coil whine and runs cool: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814134040
I can't get ECS where I live. :'(

Would perhaps getting an eVGA 9600GT and strapping on an Accelero S1 be better?
The Accelero S1 should be fine, even the Accelero S2 would be fine. I know the ECS version with Accelero S2 has little heat sinks on the card, but i don't know if the eVGA also has those heat sinks.

RAM sinks appear to be bundled with the Accelero S1.

"Together with the bundled RAM heat sinks and voltage regulator heat spreader, Accelero S1 Rev. 2 provides an all-round passive solution that achieves the best cooling performance."

bonestonne · Post by **bonestonne** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:33 pm

yes, the Accelero S1 comes with 8 RAM heatsinks, which is enough to put on on each memory module on the card (like the 9600GT).

edh · Post by **edh** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:41 am

The S1 works very well on a 9600GT. I have one on mine. The VRM's are not cooler however. This isn't entirely necessary but I cut up the stock heatsink to liberate the VRM heatsink part which I then screwed on over the VRM's. See further up in this thread for discussion of this.

Pipps · Post by **Pipps** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:07 am

I am planning to invest in the Sparkle 9600 GT (Passive). It's heatsink is situated on the top of the card, rather than the bottom like almost all others, and so this will aid overall case ventilation far more.