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Learn from my mistakes...let the thing burn in for a while...Quote:
Originally posted by Soulburner
Hmm....well I suppose that I could somehow drill a crevice in the heatsink for that little chip to fit in...it would allow that corner of the heatsink to come down all the way I believe.
The card is almost ready, if I don't get satisfactory results then I will look at doing that.
Well its not completely touching all of the core, if you look at that pic you will see where it touched by the mark the paste left. That little chip is lifting up one side of the heatsink.
I may have to take Tech's advice and modify it a bit.
Hey guys, I'm new here and want to chime in. Just got my Sapphire 9800pro 256 last night, flashed it to the ATI 9800 XT BIOS ('cause it has Hynix RAM), worked like a charm. I suppose I could have benched it before flashing, but I didn't really care about that. I've replaced the stock cooler with an Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer. I'm not so much interested in OC'ing the f*ck out of the thing, but I am curious to know what it'll do OC-wise. I left ATItool running on the core last night and working on the memory while I was away at work today, and it reported the core at 424 and the memory at 380, up from 412/365.
That seems to be about the same everyone is getting, very close to mine.
If you have access to a grinding wheel, you could just grind away the corner of the heatsink base so it clears that chip. Give it a little extra space in case it wants airflow.Quote:
Originally posted by Soulburner
Well its not completely touching all of the core, if you look at that pic you will see where it touched by the mark the paste left. That little chip is lifting up one side of the heatsink.
I may have to take Tech's advice and modify it a bit.
Yeah soul, just dremel that bytch down a bit bud. I had to do the same to my HSF, works great now.
BTW, where do you guys get this ATItool? Im using omega drivers, does this thing come with the ATI drivers?
Google is your friend.
There may be issues with Omega drivers, according to the FAQ.
Alright guys, prepare to laugh, like I said this is rediculous how this fits on here, it was like it was designed for it...
Just barely missing the caps...
http://home.neb.rr.com/soulburner/R3...atsink%201.jpg
http://home.neb.rr.com/soulburner/R3...atsink%202.jpg
Perfect length, right along the edge...
http://home.neb.rr.com/soulburner/R3...atsink%203.jpg
Just misses this silver thing...
http://home.neb.rr.com/soulburner/R3...atsink%204.jpg
Here you can see the culprit, the little black chip on the left underneath...
http://home.neb.rr.com/soulburner/R3...atsink%205.jpg
And one more...
http://home.neb.rr.com/soulburner/R3...atsink%206.jpg
And the whole thing...
http://home.neb.rr.com/soulburner/R3...roflow%201.jpg
http://home.neb.rr.com/soulburner/R3...roflow%202.jpg
:D :D :D
SCCWEEEEEEEET!!!
:D
Can you show pics how it attaches??? Did you drill and tap or did you simply drill hole and use machine bolts / nuts. ???Quote:
Originally posted by Soulburner
Alright guys, prepare to laugh, like I said this is rediculous how this fits on here, it was like it was designed for it...
:D
Its not attached yet, I was only testing for fitment.
The plan is to use a dab of thermal epoxy on each of the 4 corners of the shim. Once its set I will test to see how its holding. This way I don't have to epoxy the core, as I don't want to rip it off of the card. Also if its not good enough I should still be able to remove it since I will only be using tiny dabs. This stuff is extremely strong, it doesn't take much.
I have marked the fins I need removed on the corner and will cut them off with the dremel so it will clear that little chip.
But how do you like that fitment?
"Like a glooovvvvve" - Jim Carrey
And it looks really nice, too. :)
LMAO soul that is OWNAGE!!!!
MAD PROPS on the air cooling solution! I thought my sh-t was crazy.... good lord!
How heavy is that :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:?
Will you be able to get good contact with the core if you use epoxy on the shim? They are pretty much at the same level.
It is pretty darn heavy, there is a copper slug through the middle.
Compared to my Intel heatsink, i'd probably say it weighs about 2 of them.
Its not like anything from Thermalright, but it does a pretty good job on CPU's so it should do fine here. It was just laying around collecting dust so I thought I would put it to good use.
Is that a P4 aeroflow? I have an amd aeroflow but it doesn't have the extended parts on the base.
Yup it is. That would probably work in your favor because I have to cut part of it off.
I don't know how the layout of the Pro is though, the two cards are not the same.
That looks pretty sweet. You may want to think about bolting that on though. It looks pretty heavy. I tried glueing a spark 7 with alumina adhesive and the damn thing fell off after about 10 minutes. Luckily it didn't hurt the card. I'm sure the epoxy is stonger, but that's still a lot of weight. I ended up drilling out the hsf and mounting it that way. Works great. You may be able to use the stock hsf on the back side. I did that with the stock hsf from my XT
if you could buy a new HSF today, what would you get for your 9800 xt?
Well until someone finds something that fits better, i'm gonna have to go with this :D.
I'll let you know how much of an improvement I get from it, it should be a good indicator of cooling effectiveness.
And hey, aren't these cards supposed to have a temp display in the driver page somewhere? I never saw it but I have only used CAT 3.9 so far.
Yeap, it's the "Overdrive" Tab, under the control panel, but u'll have to try newer cat.Quote:
Originally posted by Soulburner
And hey, aren't these cards supposed to have a temp display in the driver page somewhere? I never saw it but I have only used CAT 3.9 so far.
The spark 7 fits perfect. The only thing I had to do was bend one of the edges and I only did that because it was touching one of the big metal caps. I may not of had to but it didn't take much. I suspect a 947u would fit and I've thought about pulling out the one I have on my other system. Put a tornado on that and you have some great air cooling. I remember a post at overclockers that someone had put a 900u on. should be about the same. Pretty heavy though. I know that cat 4.2 have temp display and I'm pretty sure cat 4.1 has them also
Well considering how heavy this is, I think an all copper 947U would be too much weight unless you had some way to support it.
I was planning on putting a 900 on and tieing a string from the corner to the top of the case. Would this thing break your agp slot or the card from the weight?
Yeah, it would make me nervous and would put a lot of torque on the card. The spark 7 made me nevous, but its doing fine. Its so close to the PCI slots that they keep it from torquing the card. If you got the thermalright close enough to the slots that would help, but I'd think about running some kind of brace from the case. Maybe a Zalman fan holder.
Edit: We must have posted at the same time. A sting might work or a tie wrap to something. Do it the Marine Corp way. Improvise. :toast: