Good cooler for 8800GS

EvoFire · Post by **EvoFire** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:36 pm

Hey guys, I would like to hear some suggestions from you guys.

I have a ASUS EN8800GS with the Glaciator heatsink. Its basically a radial heatsink with a 80mm fan on it. While its a great cooler(temperature seems to be excellent), I find it rather loud, and the bearing noise of the 80mm seems a little too excessive(ball bearing fan).

I was wondering if its better to find something to slow down the fan or just replace the cooler all together?

If I replace the cooler, I would prefer to replace it with something fanless, is that possible? Only think I can think of is the Accelero S1. What would you recommend?

loimlo · Post by **loimlo** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:11 pm

I suggest using Rivatuner to slow down Glaciator's fan first, and then try to edit BIOS by nVIDIA BIOS Editor. It is my experience with nVIDIA stock blower cooling. If ASUS 8800GS were no fan controll, AC S1 would be the last resort.

EvoFire · Post by **EvoFire** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:02 am

The card does not have fan control, I tried Rivatuner and the program that came bundled with the card, no luck. Only other choice is flashing the bios to see if it will do anything, though I'm not sure what to flash it with.

So what cooler should I be getting?

loimlo · Post by **loimlo** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:03 pm

AC S1 seems to be your last resort.

baconandeggs · Post by **baconandeggs** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:58 pm

you mite be able to slow down the fan by connecting the glaciator fan plug into a fan controller like the zalman fanmate through a mini 3 pin to 3 pin fan adapter.

eg: [glaciator] ---- [mini 3 pin to 3 pin fan adapter] ----- [fanmate]

using this method the fan will run at a fixed speed set by the fanmate, ie will not ramp up/down under load. but if temps are great, you might get away with sacrificing a few degrees for a more quiet fan.

EvoFire · Post by **EvoFire** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:47 am

Gotta find a mini jack adapter thingymabob. I however do have an extra fanmate sitting around.

No other suggestions other than AC S1? I might just end up buying and be done with it.

baconandeggs · Post by **baconandeggs** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:06 am

you could try snipping a three pin adaptor from a broken/spare fan and rewire it to the glaciator..

EvoFire · Post by **EvoFire** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:43 pm

So I broke down and bought an Accelero S1. Should I be running passive on it? I'm already running my CPU passive with a Scythe Andy Samurai. I have a top blow hole(80mm), a side panel fan(80mm), and a soft mounted(name dangling with elastic) 120mm on the front. All those fans are plugged in to 5V plugs, so they don't move much air.

I'm currently testing with ATItool artifact test and CPUburn running simultaneously. My temperatures are...

CPU: 49C
Video Card :77C right now, with a high of 83C

My PSU fan seems to be ramping up and down between 950-1100rpms. The maximum speed the PSU fan can spin at is ~1200 though generally it sits at 600rpms idle.

Should I be worried?

thejamppa · Post by **thejamppa** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:42 am

they are bit high on the side. See what happens if you put slow spinning faon Accelero. My HD 4850 Idles considerable lower ( low 30's ) with Accelero S1 + S-Flex 800 RPM.

samuelmorris · Post by **samuelmorris** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:36 am

Those temps seem a bit high. Ironically, the exact heatsink the card had to start with is in my mind the best graphics heatsink I've ever had (was on my HD3870) - I undervolted the fan to 5V, the card never broke 70C and was dead silent.

EvoFire · Post by **EvoFire** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:15 am

I think I'll go pick up a fan, I'm a bit uncomfortable with the temperatures myself too.

I gotta admit the Glaciator is a really good heatsink, but the EN8800GS won't do fan control and the fan is running constantly at 12V making a ton of noise. I didn't wanna snip the connectors and such so I just went for a new sink.

samuelmorris · Post by **samuelmorris** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:05 pm

I didn't have to, I plugged the cooler straight into the ZM-MFC1 fan controller's 0-5-12V toggle switch using a cable like this:

the lack of a surround 'out of the box' meant the fan plugged straight into it, no modification needed.