i recently purchased a graphic card 7300GT PCIE and i'm facing heat problem but the problem is that i just came from lowyat plaza and most of the shops told me that they either don't hv the HSF (Zalman or any brand) or they r out of stock
and some say that 7300GT doesn't hv a cooler yet only the stock is avaliable

so what's the deal now guyz. any ideas????

Stock Cooler should be sufficient to cool your card. If you really want to get cooler, i recommend you this guy, MIRA_MORDERNO. Sells lots of cooling stuff..

http://www.modernopc.com

I bought mine from him

thanx mate

can any1 tell me which model i can buy for my GC plz???

u should get the zalman vf700cu... or the zalman fatality vga cooler

its compatible with most cards and easily available here in the forum (bulk section or garage sales)

and if im not mistaken i remember seeing sri comp still has stock for these zalman coolers on their shelves.

thanx man but one guy told me its hard to install zalman fatality on 7300GT due to the length of the mounting holes ????

and one of sri computers told me that if i changed the stock fan the warrenty will be void:( is that tru???

yup...

but there's always an option to reinstall back the original heatsink-fan whenever you send your card for RMA

so they wouldn't know that i hv changed the HSF even with the trace of Arctic Silver on the GPU and the rams??

usually manufacturers use white ceramique based thermal paste. take that in mind as well.

so u mean if i had to send my GC to the RMA i better clean AS and replace it with ceramique thermal paste?

i think that would be better...

Thanx for the advice mate

distance of mounting holes i dunno la....but the holes on the coolers mounting brackets are somewat long...so can adjust abit here n there.... best to check it out urself....mebbe go to the shop and test it.

if i remember correctly, in pcmoddingmy's review of the 7300gt he mentioned that hes gonna shove in the zalman fatality on the card.... or what u can do is PM moderno. he has the card and also the cooler.....mebbe he can recommend u a good one too since he sells the zalmans and also other coolers...

as for the warranty...yes, itll void ur warranty... but do keep in mind that when u buy any cooler itll come with those white thermal paste (which is also used on stock coolers). so if ur sending ur card for RMA then u should just clean out the AS5 and apply the white paste when reinstalling the cooler.

thanx alot

Actually I did not mention that I'm gonna install a Zalman cooler on the 7300GT
Anyways, I don't fancy Zalman GPU coolers that much, except for their new models which comes with heatpipes.
I'd say, go with Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 6 (Rev.2) or Thermalright V1-Ultra for the 7300GT.

thanx.. but do u hv any idea about the prices??

NV Silencer should be between RM130 ~ 150
Thermalright V1-Ultra should be between RM165 ~ 180
I would recommend NV Silencer for silent, performance and lower case temperature.
V1-Ultra is for overclocking and suitable for volt modded 7300GTs.

very hot meh?what's the normal temp?

thanx pcmoddingmy

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i don't kno what the normal temp but mine shows 48~55C.... but when i touch the heat sink its hot

currently using Fatal1ty on my 7300gt-oc version here

clock the core to 620mhz / 900mhz memory the temps never exceeding 58-60c here

idling around 44c-46c

and 7300gt will fit mostly on coolers that support 7*** as most of the mounting layout pretty the same actually...

installing zalman coolers is pretty much simple and direct beter than the burger type CM Coolviva there

thanx man
once i get some cash i'll let u kno to arrange to buy one

will sorted out the stocks 1st by this weekend