As title, my Galaxy 8500 GE the card temperature is around 65C in idle stage with the original heatsink ?

Any recommendation for a better 3rd party heatsink fan ?? Budget is around RM 40-50. (low budget )

For RM40-50 its hard to get anything that will outperform the stock heatsink of a 8500, unless you can bargain with someone till his pants fall off

yea.. for your budget.. its hard to get a good vga cooler... I'm using the same Galaxy 8500GT as yours.. i've just change the original heatsink fan with an old Zalman Vf700-AlCu cooler.... cost around RM 110.... there's other new n better model for Zalman out there... its better u change to a new vga cooler because my temp decrease around 5 -7 celcius with the zalman cooler......

or u can get a pci fan card from vantec or vizo try moderno or other seller even lyplaza shud have it.it'll cool it down a bit but dont expect muchla may 2-4c only depending on ur casing air flow

8500ge is using cooler master new gpu cooler... it should be very gud...
maybe TS can try change the thermal paste 1st b4 changing the hsf...

oh yeah forgot bout that

before u buy any try reading this first HERE!!!!

I just bought cooler master coolviva .... RM45

How is it?


I wan to upgrade my budget to RM 100& get Zalman, but this is the only cooler (the famous brand) I can get in my place....
Got other brand from China, price more cheaper...

i tot 8500GE is using the cooler master coolviva too ? idle at 65oC is seriously high.............

well the vantec/vizo pci cooling solution does do much at low speed, high would help but the noise is not that comfortable

try to get a exhaust fan near ur GPU area, that would help a lot

cool viva is a piece of crap, enuff said. bought one tried it, and my card temp under load/idle was higher then the stock HSF

there is 2 versions of cool viva, cool viva aluminium and cool viva copper, but we can only get aluminium version here.

This post has been edited by bryanyeo87: Jul 16 2007, 11:47 AM

Oh my GOD, mine one is Aluminium....

All the good review is written for cooper one...

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Added on July 16, 2007, 12:43 pmMy casing fan is so near the GPU area, still at 62-65C when idle my graphic card....

This post has been edited by Irresistible: Jul 16 2007, 12:43 PM

Irresistible,

1. how's your casing air-flow?
2. where's your casing situated? (floor? table?)
3. how's the ambient temp? (in aircond room? hot room?)

1. Casing Air Flow. got one additional UV LED 80 mm fan & one casing fan lo...
CPU temperature can go as low as 27-28C when outside raining, but averagely at 34C

2. Casing on the table, above the floor. My table got a place to put CPU one, is around your legs place... Got some wood blocking the side air flow lo.... The behind CPU nothing blocking

3. Room temperature OK la, not air cond....

yeap, like i said, u cant get a copper one here in msia, afaik, its for US market only, unless ofc im mistaken and there is one selling here in msia.

how is ur mounting holes? got a pic of the mounting punya lubang? u might wanna try evercool turbo 2 for rm 80 or coolviva pro at rm 95, or u can even get zalman coolers if ur a fanatic of zalman products, but my previous 2 recommendation is better value:performance ratio

hmm...ur mobo is m-atx or atx? u might wanna get some better fans from allngap or sum ppl selling delta/nmb/sunon fans in the garage sales.

or to save u alot of money, u can just buy an rm 30 table fan, take off a sidepanel and blow it with it, sure tah pau all the casing fans u can ever have lolz

also tapau all the dust ka ?anyway u can get cheaper alternative like zalman lookalike as uglyvamp is selling(hope the right person) performance not too bad as ur on tight budget.

seriously coolviva is the most crappy cooler ever made period!!! damn heavy,..alwayz disturb the darn NB when install.....lastly wats with the bloody tiny fan?just my 2cents

Anyway, I can't found uglyvamp..... Try to "search" for more than half an hour...

Can help me up ? Provide some link ofhis topic....

Coolviva is crap, u r right, now I m selling it at a loss (fortunately, got a new replacement)

UGLYVAMP

enjoy