Calling 9800pros Cooling .....

[ibby]

Iam thinking about volt modding my card.......
now the question I have is, how have u guys got them cooled.

Water ?
air ?
vapo ?

Any pics or links.

Perferbaly I want to cool it by air .... with a big fan on,
But iam not sure 100% on how to attach the h/f onto the chip / card ?
picture would be great.

Ibby

Admin iam sorry if this is in the wrong place ..

[comment]

Iam thinking about volt modding my card.......
now the question I have is, how have u guys got them cooled.

Water ?
air ?
vapo ?

Any pics or links.

Perferbaly I want to cool it by air .... with a big fan on,
But iam not sure 100% on how to attach the h/f onto the chip / card ?
picture would be great.

Ibby

Admin iam sorry if this is in the wrong place ..

I mounted a SLK600 from Thermalright on the GPU/VPU with two cableties and made some heavy duty cobber/alu sinks for the RAM (cut up an old P4 in-a-box heatsink).

Happy modding

[Hell-Fire]

Nice work there bro.

[comment]

Nice work there bro.

Thanks H-F, I'm honoured

[ugp]

That is some nice cooling there on that card man. I think I might have to do that to my old 9800 Pro I have. What are your high core clocks on that card?

[comment]

That is some nice cooling there on that card man. I think I might have to do that to my old 9800 Pro I have. What are your high core clocks on that card?

Thanks

Highst benchable is 459mhz on the core. 24/7 I run it at 418mhz. I'm afraid my card isn't a very good clocker

It was great fun modding it though

[stealthbomber]

Here was mine before I sold it, crap overclocker as well so had to volt mod both the GPU/mem, it ran @420/730MHz on 24/7...

[ugp]

My friend has my 9800 Pro right now and I believe he has the core 450+ 24/7. I am not sure, I will have to ask him...

[_Eduard_]

isn't that cooling on your mem a bit overkill? The memory (samsung stuff) on the 9800 cards doesn't get that hot really TBH

[mcnbns]

Overkill is what XS is all about, after all.

Why overclock at all? Your 3400+ at stock speed should be more than adequate for any game you might want to play.

[Elisha]

vga silencer and 9800np running at 505/390 with volt mods.

[_Eduard_]

vga silencer and 9800np running at 505/390 with volt mods.

Do you think I'd benefit from a voltmod? My soldering iron should be here tomorrow My current max is 480mhz core and 378mhz mem, that is with a cold room temp

[ugp]

vga silencer and 9800np running at 505/390 with volt mods.

What kind of volt mods are you using on it?

[comment]

isn't that cooling on your mem a bit overkill? The memory (samsung stuff) on the 9800 cards doesn't get that hot really TBH

I'm here to enjoy the madness - and contribute whenever I can

[ugp]

Cooling is never overkill....it can never be too cold...there is no such thing

[Elisha]

i did my mods with smd grabber.
vgpu @ 1.8v and vmem @ 3.2v
before mods i could do 480/370 with silencer.
after about 505-510/391 artifact free.
if its a cold day i can do 515/400.
the vga silencer is really great.

but the smd grabber on the vmem mod broke so i'm currently running without a vmem mod.
25,533

[jumanji969]

Cooling is never overkill....it can never be too cold...there is no such thing

Haha tell my roomate that when I have the window open and box fan on when its 35F outside. He didn't seem to understand getting over 21k in 3dmark01 was important to me .

Also damn Comment that cooling setup is awesome, that gives me a nice idea. My card isn't great but for stock cooling it can hit 430mhz core perfectly fine. I was just going to get a vga silencer but Comments setup just looks so much cooler .

[ZMarre]

My card with attached Coolermaster Aero7 HS

I do 454MHz core and 396MHz mem (standard Hercules heatsinks); vmod on his way

compare url -> #2 Athon XP @ ORB '05

[JDizzle]

Wow...That's pretty xtreme air cooling.

[Leeum]

I've flashed to XT and run a VGA Silencer Rev 3, i clock stable at 430/378. Switching to water soon

[ZMarre]

Wow...That's pretty xtreme air cooling.

Thx Sound on max is also xtreme thought

I've flashed to XT and run a VGA Silencer Rev 3, i clock stable at 430/378. Switching to water soon

Welcome to the madness :banana4:

[redstang308]

I have a koolance block on my card and I get 469/388 on my clocking, stable but only get 20129 on 3DMark01

[comment]

I have a koolance block on my card and I get 469/388 on my clocking, stable but only get 20129 on 3DMark01

A little BIOS, 3D and OS tweaking should give you better bench results. Just remember that, at the end of the day, what counts is performance in real virtual life games.

Happy tweaking

[redstang308]

does anyone have or know where I can get a modded version of the 9800Pro Bios?
Also how do you know when you can flash it to an X800 bios?


Thanks

[jumanji969]

does anyone have or know where I can get a modded version of the 9800Pro Bios?
Also how do you know when you can flash it to an X800 bios?


Thanks

http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/