i need to figure out a way to exhaust hot air from my GC area man... the part of the SLI Bridge there is seriously DAMN HOT!

don't you mean the SLI brige area? the one with your Audigy 2 ZS in the middle... if yes... betul la , anyway... yes, that part sure hot la, either exhaust from side panel or make it an intake for fresh air

i trim the sticker around the 2 screw holes so that i can remove the plastic cover n clean the hsf... it help the hsf to drop 1 or 2'C as dust can cause major restriction...

Anyone try wiv remove the plastic cover and tie a 80mm fan on top of the hsf...

hey guys.. just dropping by after months of not visiting. how are the VISTA drivers for 8800GTX these days? are tey working properly now. i'm still on XP due to thevarious complaints i see hear when swithching to VISTA

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Added on August 24, 2007, 1:40 pmhey guys.. just dropping by after months of not visiting. how are the VISTA drivers for 8800GTX these days? are tey working properly now. i'm still on XP due to thevarious complaints i see hear when swithching to VISTA



This post has been edited by obefiend: Aug 24 2007, 01:40 PM

How you trim ? The sticker completely covers the screw hole. Wouldn't trimming it will be obvious that you have opened the plastic hsf casing and cause problem during warranty ?

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/491550

a few method has been tried... when the cover is opened, the ori fas is useless as it couldn't draw enuf air n channel them to the heat sink, so u can safely take off the ori fan... using 1 or 2 x 120mm fans can immediately cool it down to 47 to 50 idle... load is near 63 to 65... the stupid sli bridge is 1 of the most heat provider on 8800 card... try to double the thickness of the thermal tape for the sli chpset controller, rams, n the mosfet... it shows significant performance gain for ram especially... lyp got sell CM thermal tape (brown color, forgot wat's the thickness but not cheap)...

applying better thermal paste to the gpu also help dropping around 1 to 2'c (i use arctic mx-1)... but some reported much better result (upto 5'c)... the vizo dual pci fan (or sumthin like dat) works very well too when 8800 without the heat shrouder/cover, n oso without the ori fan... n best of all it cost less than rm60... worth a try... but careful, some distro void warranty as long as u take off the hsf or remove the cover...

good luck...

My Gigabyte 8500gt Ultra edition 256mb DDR3 128bit

oced to 700/800

temp around 51-55

Man, just when I thought I wanna get a 8800 series card, these reviews had to come up.

Looks like for now, DX10 cards are still not needed. Maybe crysis would show off the power of DX10?

Read the whole review and tell me what you guys think...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/dis...s_15.html#sect0
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/biosho...mance/page7.asp

Those benchmarks are hardly surprising though. I knew the moment i tried playing in directx10 mode for CoH that I would be playing crysis in DX9

if i only want to use to see video in H264 code which card should i go for?
in terms of price, brand. and i used to run my comp 24/7

thx

What was surprising was that there were practically no difference in picture quality between DX10 and DX9. The only thing that was better in DX10 was the soft edges for particles....

Another thing was that the size of rams didn't help at all..... Even at higher resolutions...

This post has been edited by kmarc: Aug 24 2007, 11:37 PM

how true.. i never really care about soft particles.

Any ATI X2X00 Series.

This post has been edited by sHawTY: Aug 25 2007, 08:07 AM

i toit all 8 series can decode h254 vids. hell i can decode hd movies easily now. i think you mean it comes with HDMI output right?

for 100% fan speed, 58c idle and i thin abt 70c load. however, ori is 59% fan speed (sometimes forgot to set to 100% cos everytime when restart my pc it is set to origin fan speed) 65c idle and 73c full load.

i mean the fan blow directly to my card. vip3r, may i know whats ur card temp after changing the fan? cos i dunno whether those vga fan is really effective or not..as compare to the origin one.

This post has been edited by stanley85: Aug 25 2007, 03:27 PM

actually, i'm not too sure. cause i installed it the moment i got my new rig. brought the fan card over from the old rig. anyway, my idle temps are around 65C, which i believe is quite high.. =\

Will the price of a 320Mb 8800 GTS drop below RM1k ? Right now I am saving for it, but I just can't reach for my wallet if I were to spend more than RM1k on a GPU... the most I ever spent was RM650 a few years ago on a Radeon 9600XT. Now my machine is equipped with a 7800 GTX. I was thinking 8600 GT, but seriously, it's downgrading my system...
I have heard of MSI's 8800 GTS going for RM1098.

Even Gigabyte 8800 GTS 320MB now is selling RM1100 at Cycom

Lurk in garage sales more.