Graphics arctic cooler for x800 officially poor!

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  1. chemo

    chemo True Jungle Brother

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    had one of these things fitted which was a rev.1 and it sucks major bumfluff.
    caused overheating and artifacts to occur in games/benchmarks. it didnt even fit on the memory properly and it shared the heat from the core with all mem chips.

    beware if you are intending to buy one of these things for the radeon, ive had 2 others in the past and both were extremely good but these models are tosh.


    also, while im here, is there any side effects of running the stock cooler on the x800 at full speed all the time? or is more benficial to let it be dynamic?

    :)
     
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  2. striker289

    striker289 What's a Dremel?

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    sounds like it wasnt siting properly. You have a arctic Silencer 5 right?
     
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    MonkeySpank Banned

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    Sounds like you have the rev.1 version. They fixed all these problems with the rev.2. I am using the rev.2 atm and getting 37idle and 65 load.
     
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    chemo True Jungle Brother

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    yeah it was the rev1.
    absolute pile of crap.
    im trying to find a rev2 in stock at a reasonable price right now

    :)
     
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    chemo True Jungle Brother

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    whats the rest of your system monkeyspank?
     
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    MonkeySpank Banned

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    3000+ winchester @ 2.7ghz 1.5v with the stock boxed cooler (CBBHD 0448 SPAW):D
    OCZ Platinum Rev.2 TCCD @ 300fsb 2.5-4-3-7 @2.8v
    DFI Ultra-d with bios 623-1
    X800xt pci-e vivo @ 560gpu and 570memory and rising. (Arctic cooler rev.2)
    Audigy 2zs
    Enermax 420w noisetaker psu
    Seagate 80gb sata (plenty for me)
    Lite-on DVD-rw
    Coolermaster black praetorian with blue tinted window.

    Etc etc.
     
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    chemo True Jungle Brother

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    2.7 eh, thats why then and because youve probably got dual channel.
    im only at 2.4 with single channel mem.
    still scored 5800 though so cant be that bad for socket754
    :)
     
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    System dosn't really make much difference with 3dmark05, with the system at stock, i lost about 100points most. Overclocking the card gave me the biggest boost. With it at stock, i got 6025 and with overclocking. I got the score shown on the link above. Over 6.7k. Trying for 7k atm, wish me luck:D
     
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