Arctic Silencer 5 Rev. 3 = worst heatsink I've ever used

[afireinside]

So I got my 7800gt today and put it in my bench rig. Formatted XP, ran 3d03/05, and then popped the stock HSF to put the famed arctic silencer on. I cleaned the stock thermal grease off and put AS ceramique on my 7800. Made hardly any contact with my core because the stupid thermal pads on the silencer got in the way. I sliced the pads off and got the card clean. I needed so much acetone to clean it that I almost passed out :stick: Then I realized that I had just wasted a ton of ceramique on the rams because they sit to low to make contact! Back to the pads, I finally got it to mount after adding some washers to increase pressure.

I hit the 1340mhz ram that I was auto detected rather easily... Then I saw I was overclocking in 2d :( No wonder my scores stayed the same! I rebooted and set 1340 to see artifacts over the entire screen in 2d. Wonderful... I'm willing to bet the thermal pads are heating my ram up like mad. 1250 hung at end of GT1 with crazy artifacts as well. I need a good heatsink so I can epxy regular ram sinks on...

BTW heres what I think about your 77.72 drivers nvidia
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/zero-IGN/7772this.jpg

[MadMikeSS]

I just had to post this, the picture reminded me... I know it has nothing to do with computer stuff... This was attempt at removing my old exhaust. :)

http://users.adelphia.net/~pengelly/pissed.jpg

[ugp]

LoL... Do you flick everything off?

[MadMikeSS]

The second picture was mine, not his. ;)

[JuanFlaiter]

I asume your GT is vDDR modded right?

[afireinside]

No it's 100% stock, it's been out of the box a whole 6 hours now. I'm on stock cooling and I can't even get 525/1200 to run any more. I knew I should have gotten another zalman cooler and an x800gto2...

[JuanFlaiter]

Well, the GT has 2.0ns, mine just makes it to 1180 I think it´s right fine.

[afireinside]

Well 525/1225 is the best I can run with arties. Mod time...

[Gadflyii]

I also hate the the Ram cooling on the rev. 3

I was thinking about cutting the base plate to allow the use of direct contact ram sinks, but decided it was not worth it.

Also if you run one of these Heatsinks, you need to cut a hole in the plastic shroud over the stock heatsink on towards the back of the card. Because you are no longer blowing air towards the front of the case, this heatsink gets NO airflow. Mine go so hot it deformed the plastic under the fan....

In a nut shell it sucks balls... There has got to be a better heat sink solution... I guess I should just go water for the Vid cards.

[LenniZ]

I know what you mean, it was the same with the AC ATI silencer 5 rev2 :/ I also wasted a ton of AS5 on the ram's, haha. I liked the AC ATI silencer4 rev1 I had on my x800 better, much better.
And also I dont trust the silencer anymore, a few weeks ago when I was playing BF2, the fan stopped :O I saw 110c load in battlefield 2 :/
I'm using watercooling now, very happy.

[afireinside]

I tried the thing again today, roasted my rams. I'm back on stock now. To thick for an SLI setup anyway...

[MadMikeSS]

My own experience with the NV 5 Silencer was with the 6800GT and I think that it performed well, but the ram cooler was kinda odd as the heatsink barely touched the ram. Went to an X850XT after that and had the ATI Silencer on that one, cooled it as well as the stock cooler on full out fan speed. Then I watercooled it and there was no comparison. The latest nv5 silencer seems to be poorly designed or there was a very poor attempt to rig the old silencer into the new silencer. I'm currently using the Zalman ZF700-CU and it's doing an ok job, I plan on watercooling my BFG card when I get my maze 4 block sometime early next week.

[afireinside]

Yeah I may watercool when I go SLI GTs but I don't want to risk vmodding 2 cards if I don't need to and cooling isn't going to do anything without vmods.

[DeToNaToR.cl]

i Think its not trouble of the cooler the problem is between the chair and the keybord...

That Heatsink is just freakyng good with the thermal pads it includes...it seems that the ones used for ram and GPU are silver based.. why using ceramiq when you have something similar to AS5 "similar" no equal...but it stills do the job very well..

I tought this thread was something more serius..

[afireinside]

Yeah I can't mount a cooler... I'll remember that next time I try for the x800pro trifecta ;)

[MadMikeSS]

I always like to see n00bs trying to tell an established member that they don't know what they are doing. Haha.

[Supertim0r]

I must say the rev2 and rev3 sux. I had a nv silencer 5 rev1, ati silencer 4 rev1 and vga silencers 1/2/3...all fantastic. Got an ATI silencer 4 rev2 to mount on my vmodded gto2 but it was total CRAP. Bought Viperjohn cooling instead :D

The thermal pads between heatsink/memory look really bad :(

[WesM63]

That sux bro.. I love my Zalman VF-700Cu :D

[afireinside]

Haha same here it's on my 6800nu... Oh well stock works just as well on 7800, this thing needs vmods.

[craig588]

I agree about the Silencer, it's essentially worthless except as a large block of metal. If you strip off the housing and add a 92MM fan to it it can perform acceptably as a GPU cooler, but it's still not that good after doing that. I've taken to just modifying ThermalRight CPU coolers for my videocards. (I've never used their videocard cooler, but it doesn't look too interesting either)

[Highland3r]

The VGA silencers suck, the look crap too, whats with the whole 1/2 a tonne of metal stuck to the back of them all about?
Zalman FTW, kept an overclocked X800XT PE nice and cool, and they're silent if you drop the fan to 7v...

[alexio]

Revision 1 was fine if you were one of the lucky guys (like me) where the cooler touched the core aswell at the rams.

But I just want to say that the cooler sucks anyway. The copper basplate only heats up the ram by adding heat from the core to the rams.