Can't cool my Nvidia card

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thedude0901

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Greetings,

I have a Nvidia 6800 GT with an Arctic Cooling Accelero X1 installed and it does'nt do any better than the stock cooler. Both the stock and Arctic coolers post the same numbers which doesn't make much sense to me.

Room Ambiant: 25c
GPU Idle: 53c
GPU Load: 65c
CPU Idle: 30c
CPU Load 35c
Case temp: 30c - 35c

My friend installed the same cooler on his 7800 GTX and his temps between the stock and Arctic coolers were the same as mine.

What I don't understand is how all of the reviewers of this cooler claim to have idle temps in the low 40's and load temps in the low 50's. How can their load temps be on par with my idle temps??? Most of the reviews have the statement "my temps dropped 10c by installing this cooler. I just don't see it and neither does my friend with his card.

I don't understand why we're not seeing better numbers. Can someone please explain this to me ?

Best Regards,
The Dude
 
Those temps looks about right. Mines idle around 50-54. You can't lower temps unless you water cool.
 
Those idle temps seem a bit high but the load temps are spot on. Ive had both those cards and under load with stock coolers that's what I ran too.

Do you have a fresh application of some ceramique or AS5 compound on the chip???

It may also have something to do with the ventilation in your case and it's cooling.

Those temps at load are not high by any means.
 
the only reason to get one of the Accelero coolers is to quiet it down, they cool about the same as stock.
 
OK...methinks something is wrong. Up until a month ago, I was running an AGP 6800GS (unlocked to 6800GT). It would idle around 54c and load 65ish...poor case flow, btw

Slapped on the Accelero X1, and was able to set fan to 100% in rivatuner, still quieter than stock fan at default speed. With Accelero X1, I did some overclocking to 450/1150, idle dropped to 48c, and load stayed around 65c...not bad for the overclock.

Your temps make me think something bad happened during the install. First thought being a sloppy install (if you didnt get the cooler down flat on dead on, the pre-applied thermal paste would smear and not spread evenly), which would cause it to not perform as well. Also double check that thermal pads are on memory good, with the X1 being on tight enough for full contact with heatsink/gpu/thermal pads on memory.

Hopefully you can get it to work good, cause I had absolutely amazing results with my 6800 and the accelero x1, and hope others can share the fun I had with this card.

-Ashley

PS - Also, for thermal paste, if you have to re-apply, i recommend Arctic Coolings MX-1 Thermal paste, it's proven (by them, at least) to be better performing than AS5, plus its non-conductive. Only downside is it's a little thicker, and a bit harder to apply. Should also mention that there is a 200 hour hardening time or whatever for the MX-1 thermal paste that would be pre-applied to the X1, and results will improve until that point.
 
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