japin
02-25-2004, 05:00 AM
The card in question is a BFG 5900nu flashed to a 5950.
I found a HS that seems as if it will offer the most cooling capabilities for the littest amount of scratch. The cooler master DP5 from newegg for just a hair under 9 bucks.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...g=62&depa=1
I need something that can hold a good amount of heat and I pesonally dont think thoes tiny 1u heatsinks will do as good of a job. I want something that is made for a pretty high mhz cpu. If I am not mistaken these are almost exactly the same heatsinks that come with the newer amd athlons. I can always get a TMD fan later for it but for now the fan that comes with it should work out ok.
I plan on using tweakmonster sinks on the ram unless anyone can provide me with a reason not to. I am not planning on doing the vmem mod on the 5900 so i just need something to cool them at about 1000mhz (1000mhz ddr is not going to be the limiting factor, I believe the core is a lot more important). The only reason I say this is because when I vmodded my 9700pros memory and went from 322 to 371 I saw about a 300 point increase in 3dmark which is not enuf for me.
I found a HS that seems as if it will offer the most cooling capabilities for the littest amount of scratch. The cooler master DP5 from newegg for just a hair under 9 bucks.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...g=62&depa=1
I need something that can hold a good amount of heat and I pesonally dont think thoes tiny 1u heatsinks will do as good of a job. I want something that is made for a pretty high mhz cpu. If I am not mistaken these are almost exactly the same heatsinks that come with the newer amd athlons. I can always get a TMD fan later for it but for now the fan that comes with it should work out ok.
I plan on using tweakmonster sinks on the ram unless anyone can provide me with a reason not to. I am not planning on doing the vmem mod on the 5900 so i just need something to cool them at about 1000mhz (1000mhz ddr is not going to be the limiting factor, I believe the core is a lot more important). The only reason I say this is because when I vmodded my 9700pros memory and went from 322 to 371 I saw about a 300 point increase in 3dmark which is not enuf for me.