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Yeh Ive read before that the OEM version is longer than retail. I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, that by industry standards that retail Graphics Cards cannot be longer than an ATX Motherboard. It would also be a mistake by any company who exceeds this as it wont fit in peoples cases...
Got my Thermalright HR-03 last week and installed it today. Stock Cooler GPU temp was maximum 89. Thermalright HR-03 gave me a maximum 74 with Arctic Cooling 9cm Fan on 5V, and its very quiet. And the Ramsinks are doing good as I have not gotten any artifacts after 2 hours of play of STALKER...
Well I believe there is a temperature sensor in the middle of the processor, cause you see the outer edge of the processor was contacting the cooler, but the inside wasn't. Strangely enough the 109 degrees CELCIUS did not produce any other anomalies. Strange hey.
This is nuts. The cooler wasn't touching the Processor properly. So I adjusted it, and spread the AS5 a little more evenly. Installed it. Then Windows took 3 minutes to load :confused: . It then said it cannot find my Graphics Card :( . I Error Checked the drive and found one of the Ati files...
Yep. With Arctic Cooling Accelero (100% fan) the VRAM temp was high (according to the polygon spiking I kept on getting, at least 1 in the first 5 minutes) and GPU was about 75-85.
Now with stock, VRAM seems to be cooler (as I haven't seen one spike yet), but GPU temp went up to maximum...
Well Ive placed back the 747 stock cooler, and set the fan to 100%. Played TDU for 30 minutes and not one single artifact, then played stalker for 15 minutes, and no artifact, then back to TDU and still no artifact. So after an hour, nothing, only problem is GPU temp goes up to 102 degrees :eek...
Well I'm going to try to put the stock blow dryer back on tomorrow and see how things go from there. I've already got 3 fans blowing on it, from the voltage regulator end. But I believe the card is damaged, but we'll see.
Ive got exactly the same problem, and it happened after I installed 7.2. I have polygon anomalies appearing after 15 minutes to 30 minutes of play. Increasing my fan to 100% did clear it, but it eventually started to appear again. It didn't happen in BF2, but it happens in stalker and Test...