Has anyone tried silencing a GTX260?

They make noise, too.

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Has anyone tried silencing a GTX260?

Post by Mr. Perfect » Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:53 pm

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?

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Post by thejamppa » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:24 pm

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

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Post by Mr. Perfect » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:43 am

Oh. Well that explains why no one here has one. Guess I can forget about that then. :?

Thanks for that heads up, I didn't realize they didn't accept any decent aftermarket coolers.

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Post by WR304 » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:43 am

There isn't much in the way of aftermarket cooling for the GTX260. The most effective way would probably be to watercool it. :)

The actual GTX260 card is quite good though. It runs games well and temperatures with the stock cooler are a lot lower than my old 8800GTS 640mb stock cooler ever managed. :)

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Post by Mr. Perfect » Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:38 pm

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.

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Post by WR304 » Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:00 pm

Mr. Perfect wrote: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.

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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Post by Mr. Perfect » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:47 pm

Oh, I know. ATI and Nvidia are always putting pitiful coolers on their cards. I wish there was an Accelero available for the 260. I bet it would stay in the 40s or 50s with some airflow managment then. :D

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