Why is everybody posting pictures of there "awesome" aftermarket coolers with gpu-z under a 0-2% load?
That tells us nothing, thats just idle temps in 2d (xp) or low 3d (vista aero) mode. Go download ATI Tool and run the artifact tester, this will push the gpu in to 3dmode and 98-100% load, this is a great test of both your stability of an overclock and your load temps.
Most people are suffering high temps with the stock coolers due to the awful stock fan speeds. It maxes out at like 22% under load. I suppose the idea could have been two fold.
1.) Keep the noise down to near silent
or
2.) Keep the temps high to limit overclocking
Ether way since you can manually override fan speed via the profiles xml file boosting my 4850's fan speed to 30% dropped idle to under 50, and load to like 70's. For more graphic intensive games like crysis I created a 2nd profile that has the gpu overclocked to 675/1050 and boost the fan speed to 60% and I turn it on before gaming, the cards become abit loud but I do not hear them in the game and they stay nice and cool. At this point it would be much cheaper and better to just get some 120mm fans to point at the voltage regulators to drop those temps as they are sort of hot and keep the stock coolers.
It looks like many of you are not getting better performance with these after market coolers its just that you have not taken the time to increase the broken fan speed on the stock solutions. There are some MUCH better coolers than stock, but they cost too much to warrent in my book. (got the cards for 150$ each on sale, id be damned to pay 40-70$ for a cooler when the cards run fine with the stock coolers, only in the event of heavy volt moding would it be worth it)
Keep in mind my temps are high even because I have a P182 SE case, one intake for the upper chamber and its blocked by a dust filter & the dust filter door & the case door. If I open the doors and remove the filter I drop 5c idle and 10c load instantly.
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