Cooling Solution for my 9800 pro?

[Dan McLaughlin]

Recently installed a new Crucial 128mb 9800 Pro. Despite the fact that
its in a Lian Li ally case with 4 fans and good airflow, it is
overheating. After about 2 hours of running 3d games like NWN, KOTOR
and Etherlords 2 the system simply locks up and VPU recover kicks in.
If I remove the side of the case, I can play with no problems.
So, it looks like the card needs more cooling and/or improved airflow.
I've no wish to void my warranty by replacing the fan and heatsink.
I'm wondering if simply fitting an exhaust fan in the PCI slot beneath
the card would work, or should I fit a fan like the Globalwin CAF12?
I'm sure that others here must have encountered and solved this issue,
so your comments will be appreciated.

TIA


Dan

 

[Sean]

I've never had my 9800 pro over heat. However, when i had the exhaust fan
beneath my 9800 Pro, system temps were down 4 degrees, and the cpu was 2
degrees down. So try it. Also, flip the exhaust fan so the fan is facing
towards your 9800 Pro card. The other way, and it'll just suck cool air out
of your case from your front fan(s).

 

[Taipan]

Recently installed a new Crucial 128mb 9800 Pro. Despite the fact that
its in a Lian Li ally case with 4 fans and good airflow, it is
overheating. After about 2 hours of running 3d games like NWN, KOTOR
and Etherlords 2 the system simply locks up and VPU recover kicks in.
If I remove the side of the case, I can play with no problems.
So, it looks like the card needs more cooling and/or improved airflow.
I've no wish to void my warranty by replacing the fan and heatsink.
I'm wondering if simply fitting an exhaust fan in the PCI slot beneath
the card would work, or should I fit a fan like the Globalwin CAF12?
I'm sure that others here must have encountered and solved this issue,
so your comments will be appreciated.

It sounds like you have a much more advanced system cooling setup than me
(one side 80mm fan and one rear venting 80mm fan plus a PCI exhaust fan
below the R9800 Pro) but I don't recall my ATI branded R9800 ever
overheating, even before I put in the PCI exhaust (though it dropped overall
system temps by around 3 degrees) but if yours is, perhaps having the PCI
vent sucking the hot air right below the Radeon would help.. can't hurt to
put one in anyway.

 

[NDF]

Recently installed a new Crucial 128mb 9800 Pro. Despite the fact that
its in a Lian Li ally case with 4 fans and good airflow, it is
overheating. After about 2 hours of running 3d games like NWN, KOTOR
and Etherlords 2 the system simply locks up and VPU recover kicks in.
If I remove the side of the case, I can play with no problems.
So, it looks like the card needs more cooling and/or improved airflow.
I've no wish to void my warranty by replacing the fan and heatsink.
I'm wondering if simply fitting an exhaust fan in the PCI slot beneath
the card would work, or should I fit a fan like the Globalwin CAF12?
I'm sure that others here must have encountered and solved this issue,
so your comments will be appreciated.

TIA


Dan

I also noticed this upon installing my new Crucial 9800 Pro 128, the heat
within the system is up by a few degrees.

Having read a few articles on these cards there is a consensus that the RAM
should have some form of heatsink, yet Crucial say it is unnecessary.

I am still waiting for a response from them regarding permission to install
BGA Heatsinks onto the RAM to help keep it cool during use.

 

[J. Clarke]

Recently installed a new Crucial 128mb 9800 Pro. Despite the fact that
its in a Lian Li ally case with 4 fans and good airflow, it is
overheating. After about 2 hours of running 3d games like NWN, KOTOR
and Etherlords 2 the system simply locks up and VPU recover kicks in.
If I remove the side of the case, I can play with no problems.
So, it looks like the card needs more cooling and/or improved airflow.
I've no wish to void my warranty by replacing the fan and heatsink.
I'm wondering if simply fitting an exhaust fan in the PCI slot beneath
the card would work, or should I fit a fan like the Globalwin CAF12?
I'm sure that others here must have encountered and solved this issue,
so your comments will be appreciated.

Please forgive a dumb question, but how do you have your fans arranged? Do
you have the ones in front blowing in and the ones in back blowing out? If
not then arrange them that way before you do anything else.

 

[Wblane]

So far I haven't had any problems w/my 9800 Pro overheating (a Sapphire branded
9800 Pro). I haven't really noticed my system temps any higher either but I've
got a 120mm fan blowing right in the general vicinity of the northbridge, CPU
and vid-card. I've also got a 90mm exhaust fan in that general area.
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

 

[OverKlocker]

Recently installed a new Crucial 128mb 9800 Pro. Despite the fact that
its in a Lian Li ally case with 4 fans and good airflow, it is
overheating. After about 2 hours of running 3d games like NWN, KOTOR
and Etherlords 2 the system simply locks up and VPU recover kicks in.
If I remove the side of the case, I can play with no problems.
So, it looks like the card needs more cooling and/or improved airflow.
I've no wish to void my warranty by replacing the fan and heatsink.
I'm wondering if simply fitting an exhaust fan in the PCI slot beneath
the card would work, or should I fit a fan like the Globalwin CAF12?
I'm sure that others here must have encountered and solved this issue,
so your comments will be appreciated.

TIA


Dan

http://www.svc.com/arcovgasilsu.html just got mine in today. lots of
good reviews. on my lian-li case, i also put in a 92mm 'card cooler'
fan blowing right on my cards. it has worked great with my 9700pro

 

[Thomas Andrén]

http://www.svc.com/arcovgasilsu.html just got mine in today. lots of
good reviews. on my lian-li case, i also put in a 92mm 'card cooler'
fan blowing right on my cards. it has worked great with my 9700pro

I have used VGA Silencer almost 2 month now on my 9800 Pro, it works mutch
better than stock fan even in silent mode. Infact i have only used silent
mode and it is completly silent.

/Thomas A/

 

[John]

Recently installed a new Crucial 128mb 9800 Pro. Despite the fact that
its in a Lian Li ally case with 4 fans and good airflow, it is
overheating. After about 2 hours of running 3d games like NWN, KOTOR
and Etherlords 2 the system simply locks up and VPU recover kicks in.
If I remove the side of the case, I can play with no problems.
So, it looks like the card needs more cooling and/or improved airflow.
I've no wish to void my warranty by replacing the fan and heatsink.
I'm wondering if simply fitting an exhaust fan in the PCI slot beneath
the card would work, or should I fit a fan like the Globalwin CAF12?
I'm sure that others here must have encountered and solved this issue,
so your comments will be appreciated.

TIA


Dan

If your'e not using the adjacent pci slot why not do as I did and fit a dummy
PCI card shaped to carry a slower quiet 80mm fan.

I used an old rear bracket from a old obsolete network card, cut a piece of
blank pcb board to match the shape of a pci card, and then cut a hole in it for
the fan.

Remove the original video card fan and store it somewhere safe.

This works very well for me, it gives good cooling to the video card, and its
far quieter (virtually inaudible) than the original. A small amount of work on
your part perhaps but well worth it and of course it can be used with all your
future cards as well.

Just a suggestion.. )

Kind Regads

John

 

[fook me]

Recently installed a new Crucial 128mb 9800 Pro. Despite the fact that
its in a Lian Li ally case with 4 fans and good airflow, it is
overheating. After about 2 hours of running 3d games like NWN, KOTOR
and Etherlords 2 the system simply locks up and VPU recover kicks in.
If I remove the side of the case, I can play with no problems.
So, it looks like the card needs more cooling and/or improved airflow.
I've no wish to void my warranty by replacing the fan and heatsink.
I'm wondering if simply fitting an exhaust fan in the PCI slot beneath
the card would work, or should I fit a fan like the Globalwin CAF12?
I'm sure that others here must have encountered and solved this issue,
so your comments will be appreciated.

TIA


Dan

I have a 9700Pro and I bought an exhaust fan to put next to the card.

Problem is my card wont work with it in.

I think it drags too much power?

I have a 550 watt power supply?

a cd-writer
a dvd writer
P4 Motherboard and P4 2.oGhz chip
Radeon 9700 P:ro
2 80mm quality fans
1 side fan
1 hard drive
1 floppy drive

It has 6 plugs coming from the psu - in 2 banks of 3

I have all the cd's and hard drive and floppy and 1 fan attached to one bank
and the rest to the other

if I install the exhaust blower my pc just beeps at me (i.e not enough
power) whicjever bank I plug it into

Surely a 550 PSU should handle this sort of power - I really dont have that
much going on in my PC????

I was running a 300 watt PSU which ran everything except the card and blower

these 2 items cant account for 250 watts can they?

Any ideas peeps????

Jim

 

[jamie anderson]

A question for both the previous posters:

Did you remove the shim from the GPU or leave it there? I just bought one
too & noticed when i took the stock cooler off, it has a raised area in
contact with the chip, but the VGA silencer is smooth, so i'm wondering if
there is proper contact between the GPU & the new heatsink...

If you did remove it, how did you do it?

 

[JR]

Hi Jamie, have a look here...

http://www.overclockers.com/articles714/index.asp

JR

 

[Daniel Czajko]

Check the fan on the card. It could be seized and turning slowly.

 

[OverKlocker]

A question for both the previous posters:

Did you remove the shim from the GPU or leave it there? I just bought one
too & noticed when i took the stock cooler off, it has a raised area in
contact with the chip, but the VGA silencer is smooth, so i'm wondering if
there is proper contact between the GPU & the new heatsink...

If you did remove it, how did you do it?

didn't remove mine as the shim was even with the core. but then i
found a MAJOR bummer!!! it wouldn't fit on my motherboard because i
mounted an aluminum heatsink on my southbridge (from a dead n'force1
motherboard... it matches my northbridge awsome). so, now i'm deciding
what to do. my boss might trade his 9800pro for my card with all the
goodies i put on it (alum ramsinks, too). if not, i may sell my a7n8x
to a friend that wants it and buy another...or i may... i'm a little
upset, cause the cooler fits and looks awsome on that card.

 

[Thomas Andrén]

A question for both the previous posters:

Did you remove the shim from the GPU or leave it there? I just bought one
too & noticed when i took the stock cooler off, it has a raised area in
contact with the chip, but the VGA silencer is smooth, so i'm wondering if
there is proper contact between the GPU & the new heatsink...

If you did remove it, how did you do it?

No i did not remove the shim on my 9800 Pro, i did only what it said in
instruction paper for VGA Silencer. I dont know if there are any different
in hight between 9700 and 9800 gpu? Alot of heat comes out from the cooler
so i guess it is doing the job quite good with shims on. When i got my 9800
Pro i had a couple of game crashes, no games have crashed since i installed
VGA Silencer.

I did a game test when i had 24 celsius in my room, Urban Terror 3.0 @
1600x1200 all effects on and full FSAA. VGA Silencer in silent mode (slowest
rpm) and played for 6 hours, i think you say Rock Solid in english. The
only thing that got warm was me.

There is no need to run VGA Silencer in faster mode, maybe if you OC alot it
may come handy. Im using silent mode only.

/Thomas A/

 

[jamie anderson]

Thanks, very useful.

Has anyone done it? Is it worth the risk?