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sausje
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 Posted: Mon, 3rd Sep 2012 18:01 Post subject: Custom cooler for 480 |
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A friend of me wants to use a custom cooler as his is now completely fucked (95 degrees on the damn thing during BF3 with 100% fan)
Now he doesn't know if it's going to fit.
He has the Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME Plus II in mind and his case is a CM 690.
Anyone know if this would fit?
Or maybe alternative for a better cooler that does fit if this one doesnt?
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Sep 2012 17:05 Post subject: |
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Zalman VF3000F is good cooler and cheap, also keeps 480 very cool. Takes 2 slots. It also has much better VRM cooling that AC extreme, since it has fullcover heatsink. Also very quiet, had one on my 480.
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sausje
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Sep 2012 18:01 Post subject: |
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It has shitty little heatsinks for ram and VRM. Accelero is insane for cooling the GPU, but rest is shit, VRM runs very hot on some cards.
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Sep 2012 18:13 Post subject: |
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Does the TwinFrozr II fit on that thing?
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| Posted: Thu, 6th Sep 2012 22:15 Post subject: |
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| Breezer_ wrote: | | Zalman VF3000F is good cooler and cheap, also keeps 480 very cool. Takes 2 slots. It also has much better VRM cooling that AC extreme, since it has fullcover heatsink. Also very quiet, had one on my 480. |
Hey you got lucky lol unless you got some sort of revision. Zalman was in serious heat because of that cooler. Come to find out there was a measurement done wrong on it somewhere and was causing video cards to short out. I think something like 100 cards got fried because of it? |
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Sep 2012 05:37 Post subject: |
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Why bother with it? Sell it, get something new instead. Waste of money otherwise.
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Sep 2012 08:52 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | | Breezer_ wrote: | | Zalman VF3000F is good cooler and cheap, also keeps 480 very cool. Takes 2 slots. It also has much better VRM cooling that AC extreme, since it has fullcover heatsink. Also very quiet, had one on my 480. |
Hey you got lucky lol unless you got some sort of revision. Zalman was in serious heat because of that cooler. Come to find out there was a measurement done wrong on it somewhere and was causing video cards to short out. I think something like 100 cards got fried because of it? |
A friend of mine had some luck with the VF3000F, but I think it would be wiser to sell it on ebay or something, and buy a 570.
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sausje
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Sep 2012 09:45 Post subject: |
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| outtanames wrote: | | Why bother with it? Sell it, get something new instead. Waste of money otherwise. |
Yeah, because that's what i asked for 
And secondly, upgrade from 480 -> even 680 is NOT worth the amount of money. We are waiting with the 4 of us to buy 780's when they get released.
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Sep 2012 10:10 Post subject: |
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Which will not be worth it either, since it's not a gaming-focused card like the 680 is.
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Sep 2012 10:30 Post subject: |
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Well it might not be gaming focused, but it will give me a bigger increase then the 25-30% i would get from a 680 now.
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