Has anyone tried silencing a GTX260?
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Has anyone tried silencing a GTX260?
It's hard not to notice that the 4850 is the hot card on the forums(no pun intended), but I haven't seen anyone mention the GTX260 yet. After looking over the reviews, the 260 seems to draw around 5watts more then the 4850, so it should be just as easy to tame.
Now that Newegg is offering GTX260s for $210 after rebate, I'm hoping someone can share their experience with one of these. Is it as easy as installing the Accelero S2?
Now that Newegg is offering GTX260s for $210 after rebate, I'm hoping someone can share their experience with one of these. Is it as easy as installing the Accelero S2?
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Problem is that GTX 2x0 series uses holes that are not compatible with other coolers, have very serious VRM system and a bridge or similar chipset. Your only hope is to wait until Thermalright in few months releases Monster Tamer cooler for GTX 2x0-cards... however by then nVidia should have released GTX 2x0b with 55nm process...
You need to wait this to come:
http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_page/ ... 03gtx.html
You need to wait this to come:
http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_page/ ... 03gtx.html
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Ha! Two days after asking this, Mike posts up a review of one of these things. Looks reasonably quiet. I wouldn't call 72 Degrees cool though.
For a mid/ high-end air cooled graphics card stock cooler that isn't bad at all for a load temperature . If you had one of the older G80 8800 series cards that was more like the idle GPU temperature. The fan speed curve meant that they would reach 90c before the fan speed increased also.Mr. Perfect wrote:I wouldn't call 72 Degrees cool though.
If you look at reviews of cards such as the ATI HD4850 or ATI HD4870 with stock coolers they run far hotter than that GTX260:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article851-page5.html
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art ... VzaWFzdA==
I wouldn't describe my GTX 260's stock cooler as particularly quiet though. It's easily the loudest fan running in my PC.
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