Rent's nVsilencer5 fun

[Rent]

Alright, so I bought a nVsilencer5 in hopes that I could lower my temps by a little bit. I did lower my temps, however, I didn't do it with the silencer...

First, I started by removing the cover for the heatsink of the 6800U. Sexay :Q

Take it off!

Fast forward, take it ALL off :Q . It wouldn't be worth taking it all apart and not to check the memory. So, after a good clean, I find out that my card has 1.6ns memory! Sweet

I won't bore you with the silencer install, it was fairly straight forward except for the fact that the mounting plate they provide in the box is completely useless. I had to use some tinsnips and alter my card so the exhaust would work.

After all the work of getting it mounted and setup, the big moment came. Get into windows and check my card temp. 71C :| :| :|

Ok, so maybe I didn't tighten it enough. I can't see any light between the memory/core and the heatsink, so I tighten it a little more. Boot it, idle temp of 67C. :| :| :|

Well, alright, maybe something just isn't fitting right. Time to take it off and look at it again. Apply some more AS5, remount and start to tighten the mounting screws when...

SNAP

:Q :|

Luckily, the mount screw snapped, nothing on the card. However, this now renders the card useless without a cooler that properly fits.

So after all that, I said fvck it and I've remounted the stock cooler. Idle temp, 54C. Heavy load temp, 74C. Before any of this, the card would idle at 60C and load at 81C.

Cliff notes :

<^>:|<^> Arctic Cooling's cheap ass mounts.

 

[Childs]

I believe that is a known issue (cheap screws) with the new Silencers. I remember reading about it in a preview.

 

[Tab]

Wow, 74c? Thats like, insane....... Hell, I dont think I want one of those things anymore....

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Wow, 74c? Thats like, insane....... Hell, I dont think I want one of those things anymore....

Thats load temp, and it used to be higher.

 

[Rage187]

Just convinced me to keep the stock BFG copper cooler.


Way to take one for the team

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: Rage187
Just convinced me to keep the stock BFG copper cooler.


Way to take one for the team

The funny part is that I have a PNY Ultra too and a second silencer. So I'm gonna baby the install on that one when I get the chance. However, I'm still fvcking pissed that the mount broke so easily.

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Wow, 74c? Thats like, insane....... Hell, I dont think I want one of those things anymore....

The throttling on the 6800Ultra doesn't kick in until 115*C, so I am sure it is fine.

 

[MemberSince97]

Wow, good recovery Rent, from what I read the BFG's use grease on there heat sinks and mem. not Tampax is this True?

 

[Compddd]

Jackup from Nvnews also snapped his mounting screw when he was tightening them. So lets see, no manual fan control, no proper backplate for 6800 Ultras, and cheap screws that break. Wtg Artic Cooling.

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: MemberSince97
Wow, good recovery Rent, from what I read the BFG's use grease on there heat sinks and mem. not Tampax is this True?

No, its not true. They use the tampons like everyone else.

Putting the stock cooler back on was a chore, but hell, it wasn't gonna go without it. Just would have been nice to have it work like it should have.

The way I'm moving, I'll probably break down and make a watercooled rig shortly

Compddd
Yeah, I read his thread. I was hoping I wouldn't run into the same problem, but I did. I just wanted the fvcking thing to be tight and SNAP. :frown:

 

[nitromullet]

Supposedly they fixed the screw issue.

http://www.insanetek.com/index.php?page=vgasilencer

3) Breaking screws
We recognised this problem. If you fasten the screw nut too much, the screw will brake. We also worked on this problem and solved it with new screws.

I ordered an NV SIlencer 5 as well to put on my 6800 GT when I get my RMA back from eVGA. I'll post my results then.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

The review I read the silencer didn't do much performancewise on a Ultra as in it barely beats the 2 slot solution already on there. The GT is what really benefits from it. After hearing this I think I'll wait for NV5 revision 2...

 

[joecool]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
The review I read the silencer didn't do much performancewise on a Ultra as in it barely beats the 2 slot solution already on there. The GT is what really benefits from it. After hearing this I think I'll wait for NV5 revision 2...

so how do we know which "revision" we're getting? sounds like a change in their production, they said the brackets wouldn't show up for 7-8 weeks, will it be the same with the screws? and will they do anything to differentiate between the new and old coolers? i bet not ... bad for business!

 

[Tab]

Sorry, but I dont even want to buy a video card that gets that hot seems very unstable to me IMHO...

 

[Viper96720]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Sorry, but I dont even want to buy a video card that gets that hot seems very unstable to me IMHO...

Your's get how hot?

 

[Rage187]

74c at full load is not even close to hot.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Video cards are not cpus they can run much hotter safely. Mine (6800 gt reference cooler) runs 54 idle and I'm guessing somewhere around 70 load (never did a solid test to see). The video card doesn't shut down until 120 degree.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Hmm. Maybe the AS5 just needed a little time to burn in. That stock cooler looks like a POS (fins too thick and close together)...no WAY that cools better than a VGA Silencer.

 

[ahsumdude]

I received my last week.

I took off the PNY cooler and found some white fabric between the ram and cooler. Huh?

I installed the NV 5 per the instructions... I thought it was odd when the instructions indicated you must
use an extremely large amount of paste between ram and HS. Bah... I used AS5, hah! After installing the NV5 i held it up to the light to insure proper contact and what did I see, light shing through all the mem modules. WTF... I jerked it off and put that damn fabric between the ram and HS.

After installing it my idle temps jumped up from 53C to 61C and load went from 65c to 81C.

My ran showed artifact at 1.04 Gig and before with the stock cooler I was easy getting 1.14 with no art.

I yanked it off reapplied AS5 to the core and all memmory modules and my core temps are back to 53C and 65 (idle/load). Get this after I applied AS5 to the ram I can get 1.18 with no art on my ram

BTW my OC attemps have gotten me stable at 415 core and 1.18 ram for 12,468 3Dmark 2003.

 

[Elvis2]

all i can say is you guys have great big hairy cajones for risking a warranty on a $500.00+ video card. now don't get me wrong. my rig's modded and overclocked and watercooled and all that jazz but I just can't bring myself to mod that card. my evga ultra's going to be delivered Friday and I plan on leavin' that sucker alone . besides, with evga's step up program, i'll prolly be upgrading in six months anyway.

 

[Tenchi4U]

I put one on my PNY 6800GT, works just fine, no snapping, all parts seemed very high quality. Runs 52C idle and and maxes out at 72C running rthdribl for 2 hours; runs at 430/1200.

Maybe to just overtightened (if you overtighten anything, you can snap it)

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: Elvis2
all i can say is you guys have great big hairy cajones for risking a warranty on a $500.00+ video card. now don't get me wrong. my rig's modded and overclocked and watercooled and all that jazz but I just can't bring myself to mod that card. my evga ultra's going to be delivered Friday and I plan on leavin' that sucker alone . besides, with evga's step up program, i'll prolly be upgrading in six months anyway.

You might want to read the details on eVGA's site about step-up... You can't step-up in 6 months because you can only step-up within 90 days of purchase. I don't imagine that eVGA will make a card for you to step-up to within 90 days. Either way, you'll have a sweet card.

 

[Hauk]

My NV5 came with rubber grommets that slip onto the screws. Then per instructions, tighten nuts until grommets are slightly compressed. I hand tightened first, then counted three turns per screw to get grommets perfectly compressed (slightly).

My idle temps on a BFG 6800GT OC stayed about 54 degrees. But my load temps dropped from 74 degrees to 66 degrees. Nice improvement; though I'm not worried about a couple degrees on core temp. The fact that the BFG cooling solution used "tampax" pads for contact with memory concerned me. No real contact with the copper?

The NV5 is a decent quality, solid design. It offers real contact to the memory chips, it's fan is quiet, and reduced my system noise by enabling me to remove a case fan (DHES).

I like it...

 

[Elvis2]

You might want to read the details on eVGA's site about step-up... You can't step-up in 6 months because you can only step-up within 90 days of purchase. I don't imagine that eVGA will make a card for you to step-up to within 90 days. Either way, you'll have a sweet card.

hmmm...I'll have to reread that again. i was under the impression that you had up to 90 days from the date of purchase to register for the program. you were then eligible to upgrade when a better card became available. i guess i might just have to settle for an EE .


EDIT: yep, your right. You have to upgrade within 90 days. Oh well. maybe they'll have an EE.