Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer broken clip!

[Brian Pellham]

lol

Do you work for Arctic or a place that sells them?

[snip]

Hopefully they fix the spring issue.

One2Go

What spring issue? I maintain that there is no spring issue. Brian manages
to (somehow) break his clip and you order a part that doesn't even fit your
graphics card and then you conclude that all VGA Silencers are defective?

I say again, the clip works just fine and it bends just fine. Mine does and
so do countless others happily installed. What caused Brian's problem, I
have no idea. But I can assure you, when you fit the clip properly, it
takes up the strain nicely and provides a nice firm pressure keeping the
heatsink in place. In fact when I installed mine, I couldn't help but think
how neat it all was.

Chip.

 

[Brian Pellham]

"I couldn't help but think how neat it all was." lol, sounds like PR to me..

Chip you seem to be connecting from Germany (Arctic Cooling's home), and you
are spending a great deal of effort defending your flawed product. Hrm...

[snip]

Hopefully they fix the spring issue.

One2Go

What spring issue? I maintain that there is no spring issue. Brian manages
to (somehow) break his clip and you order a part that doesn't even fit your
graphics card and then you conclude that all VGA Silencers are defective?

I say again, the clip works just fine and it bends just fine. Mine does and
so do countless others happily installed. What caused Brian's problem, I
have no idea. But I can assure you, when you fit the clip properly, it
takes up the strain nicely and provides a nice firm pressure keeping the
heatsink in place. In fact when I installed mine, I couldn't help but think
how neat it all was.

Chip.

 

[One2Go]

[snip]

Hopefully they fix the spring issue.

One2Go

What spring issue? I maintain that there is no spring issue. Brian
manages to (somehow) break his clip and you order a part that doesn't
even fit your graphics card and then you conclude that all VGA
Silencers are defective?

I say again, the clip works just fine and it bends just fine. Mine
does and so do countless others happily installed. What caused
Brian's problem, I have no idea. But I can assure you, when you fit
the clip properly, it takes up the strain nicely and provides a nice
firm pressure keeping the heatsink in place. In fact when I installed
mine, I couldn't help but think how neat it all was.

Chip.

Marketing that's what they call it. If they would have stated for their
product that it will not work with AIW cards I would have never ordered it.
But since all it states ATI 9600 to 9800 pro one can make a wrong
assumtion.

One2Go

 

[Sham B]

Hi Brian
I understand why you are fed up with the cooler (I would be under the same
situation), but...

It makes high end game still playable at cool resolutions for my 9500 pro.
I overclocked before the artic, but now I can take it further with the artic
on. Dammnit, I can play KOTOR and Lockon at non-blocky resolutions with
this thing attached, well worth the money.

Look at the independent reviews. They all say its great (and many say its
an easy installation, which is what made me buy one).

I am not from Germany

S

 

[Bill]

lol

Do you work for Arctic or a place that sells them?

Do you work for Artic'c competition or a place that sells Artic's
competitors products?

Bill

 

[Chip]

"I couldn't help but think how neat it all was." lol, sounds like PR to me..

Chip you seem to be connecting from Germany (Arctic Cooling's home), and you
are spending a great deal of effort defending your flawed product. Hrm...

Germany? Interesting, I hadn't noticed the email headers. Anyway, its
utter bollocks. I am from the UK, connecting to www.pipex.com from the UK
and I have nothing whatsoever to do with Germany, with Arctic Cooling, nor
anyone who works for, nor is connected in anyway with Arctic Cooling. OK?

My only interest is that I happened to buy a VGA Silencer a few weeks ago
and I think its the best PC upgrade I have ever purchased - bar none - in
over 20 years of messing around with computers.

So when I see people describing it as crap, it kindof gets under my skin.
imho, *anyone* with any vague inkling about tweaking or upgrading should get
one of these. $20, brilliant performance, great build quality and easy to
fit. Its a no-brainer.

But that's the end of it. I give up arguing with you guys.

Chip.

[snip]

Hopefully they fix the spring issue.

One2Go

What spring issue? I maintain that there is no spring issue. Brian manages
to (somehow) break his clip and you order a part that doesn't even fit your
graphics card and then you conclude that all VGA Silencers are defective?

I say again, the clip works just fine and it bends just fine. Mine does and
so do countless others happily installed. What caused Brian's problem, I
have no idea. But I can assure you, when you fit the clip properly, it
takes up the strain nicely and provides a nice firm pressure keeping the
heatsink in place. In fact when I installed mine, I couldn't help but think
how neat it all was.

Chip.

 

[Kevin Miller]

Germany? Interesting, I hadn't noticed the email headers. Anyway, its
utter bollocks. I am from the UK, connecting to www.pipex.com from the UK
and I have nothing whatsoever to do with Germany, with Arctic Cooling, nor
anyone who works for, nor is connected in anyway with Arctic Cooling. OK?

My only interest is that I happened to buy a VGA Silencer a few weeks ago
and I think its the best PC upgrade I have ever purchased - bar none - in
over 20 years of messing around with computers.

So when I see people describing it as crap, it kindof gets under my skin.
imho, *anyone* with any vague inkling about tweaking or upgrading should get
one of these. $20, brilliant performance, great build quality and easy to
fit. Its a no-brainer.

But that's the end of it. I give up arguing with you guys.

Chip.

Well, I got my Silencer last week, but haven't installed it yet. I'll
let you know what happens.

Kevin Miller

"The avalanche has already started;
it is too late for the pebbles to vote."

 

[Remco Rohde]

Installed a VGA Silencer on my brand spankin' new (club3d) 9800 Pro
yesterday, and found the installation pretty easy to do.

I left the shim on the card because the GPU core was just a tad higher
as the shim. A little bit of AS in between and fixed the "bar" at the
back, i think if i overtighted these screws, i surely would've crack the
core, but "tight is tight enough", right ?

Only complaint i have with the design of the thing is the little switch
on the double bracket which was preventing the card from slotting in
all the way. So in my "case" i had to remove the switch ...

Run it at 430 core/350 ram (no ramsinks yet and you really notice
the hot airstream coming out the back, whereas this would just stick
around with stock cooler.

All in all a great product for only 17,99 Euros !
I would recommended it to all, except the "two left handed" people.

Cheers,

 

[Mark Bell]

Agreed. The clips do bend, even with a distinct, "click" as you are tightening
the screws. You did something wrong, it was a defective piece, or a combination
thereof. But without the shim, you do subject the GPU die to potential
stress that could fracture it. I am running a 9800 Pro, so I was able to leave
the shim on, no problems. Card is currently running 430/360. I can do
460/360, but there are too many artifacts for my tastes.

M

ALL!

YES THEY DO!

Sorry to hear of your problem, but the clip bends exactly as described in
the instructions. I think you probably had the clip the wrong way around.

Chip.

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