8800 series cooling options

[SalientKing]

Ive noticed that on the zalman site, none of their video coolers have support for 8800 series cards.

Are there any cooling options available yet? Im mostly looking for something for a 320mb 8800gts

 

[PingSpike]

The stock cooler on mine seems pretty damn good, first card I've had that I have no intention of replacing the cooler.

 

[thilanliyan]

Thermalright HR-03 (Plus??). THere is a version of it that fits the 8800GTS...not sure about 320mb though. It should be nearly identical.

 

[Agentbolt]

I'll agree on the stock cooler, I've got my card OCed to 650/2000 on the stock cooler and the temps don't go above 75 C, which this card is more than capable of handling. Just use NTune to crank up the fan to 100% and you're fine, I don't see how an aftermarket cooler is going to beat it by much.

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
I'll agree on the stock cooler, I've got my card OCed to 650/2000 on the stock cooler and the temps don't go above 75 C, which this card is more than capable of handling. Just use NTune to crank up the fan to 100% and you're fine, I don't see how an aftermarket cooler is going to beat it by much.

I'd vote for the stock cooler too also because it exhausts heat out of the case. However, noise at 100% is unbearable for me. Anything above 80% and it gets annoying. And this is with 7 other fans in my case.

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

I dunno, I run mine at 100% fan speed and so far it hasn't really bothered me. Also my temps don't really go above 70C which is pretty good considering it idles at around 55C. The HR-03 Plus may cool it down a little further but it would introduce a lot of heat into your case which may only raise your CPU/motherboard temps by a degree or two but overall, exhausting the heat outside of the case is always a better solution.

 

[Captante]

The fan on my EVGA 8800GTX is pretty quiet even at 100% especially compared to my old X1900XTX & it cools very effectively ... I may go back to water cooling at some point but I see no reason to replace it with another HS/fan.

 

[iwearnosox]

I cool mine with this.

It's pretty quiet.

 

[SalientKing]

well from what i see on the anandtech review all of the 320mb 8800gts run at 60+ db... thats too loud for me. So its noise not performance im concerned with.

 

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
I'll agree on the stock cooler, I've got my card OCed to 650/2000 on the stock cooler and the temps don't go above 75 C, which this card is more than capable of handling. Just use NTune to crank up the fan to 100% and you're fine, I don't see how an aftermarket cooler is going to beat it by much.

Yeah except at 100% it sounds like a vacuum cleaner.