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9800xt overclocking

chaikovski2002

chaikovski2002

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I need some advice on a good cooler for my graphics card, i have hercules 9800xt and i wanna overclock it, do you guys recommend zalman heatpipe with 2 fans? or a silencer of some sort like thermaltake? ill use the hercules tweaker to overclock it when i get some better cooling from the advice i receive...
 
To my knowledge the VGA Silencer does not fit on the 9800XT.....so you can basically count it out. For an aftermarket air cooler on your 9800XT I'd have to recommend either the Tt Giant III or the Zalman Heatpipe cooler with the optional fan. Either cooler will do a sufficient job but I'd lean more towards the Tt for a couple reasons. The Giant III has been re-designed and now allows you enough space to have decently sized ramsinks on both sides of the card. The dual heatpipes on the Giant III really do the trick.....and do move the heat much more efficiently. When you look at the Giant III, dont even consider using that blower fan.....dont even hook it up. I've done testing with and without it, and it'll make the most of 1-2C difference with it on.....and that's with the screaming away at 9000RPM. What I actually did was cut off that whole section of aluminum on the "butt end" of the cooler where the blower goes so it looks just like the Zalman. This allowed me to install a 120mm intake next to the card, and have it blow through the plates. The second thing i did that involved the Giant III was I actually removed teh Reverflow fan and installed a Vantec Fancard instead. This not only allowed me to DRAMATICALLY clean up my wiring in my case.....but it actually HELPED teh temps.....as the Fancard on low speed still moves more air then that reverflow fan.....and it spreads it over the whole card.....not just that little circle.

So yeah, that's my little "speal" on the cooler.

For software.....go grab either Radlinker or ATITool to do the overclocking. Radlinker incorporates itself into the Radeon control panel and is very easy to use, and ATITool (developed by our own W1zzard) will actually find your max core and memory overclocks for you.....detecting artifacts that not even the human eye can detect. You basically click on "Find max core" and it'll start testing. It'll begin raising your clock bit by bit and testing it along the way until it detects an artifact. At that point it will start testing teh card at THAT clock until it determines that THAT clock is artifact free. It'll keep lowering the clock until it can find your artifact free clock (using a testing time that you choose) basically doing all the work for ya.

I love my Tt Giant III on my 9800XT and I've been testing ATITool since version 0.0.1 (now on version 20) so let me know if you've got anymore questions.
 
VGA silencer Rev 3 fits XT cards. I'd pick that easily over the other cards as it blow hot air out of the case. Also its easy to mod and bolt 2x80mm fans to the heatsink creating great cooling. I did this with 2x37CFM fans and get 455/380 on my 9800 pro.
 
wow, now i cant decide what to get, both of those products sound like a good deal and u can mod em too! i'd love to add some fans to the huge heatsink....
 
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