New AIW 9800 Pro HSF ?

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Sc0ttFern

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My All In Wonder 9800 Pro video card has had some problems cooling. On all stock settings, I get white dots in any kind of video playback or gaming. Its like this snowing effect on the screen.

I have been told before this is heat related issue, and I think the HSF might not be making proper contact with the GPU. Can anyone recommend a new aftermarket HSF for a AIW 9800 PRO ?
 
There are tons out there. You can get a waterblock, a Zalman heatpipe, or whatever. The only issue is the clearance of that Phillips tuner.
 
it will definetly solve the cooling problem, that seems to be the best 9800 cooler outside of watercooling or modding a CPU sink.
 
thats good to hear, I heard the AIW cards are very hard to overclock. I haven't even done that, and the stock cooling isn't enough. Glad to see this has worked for everyone else.

Any tips or tricks for installing it? I don't want to mess it up.
 
Its pretty straightforward, and they include a nice pamphlet with pictures and stuff that helps a lot. You basically remove the old heatsink/paste then add some new paste and then slap the big thing on, just dont screw the things in as much as you possibly can, or you might break the card, be gentle ;D
 
thanks for the tip, has anyone OC'd a AIW card ? I'm scared they are very unstable overclocked ?
 
UPDATE:

Artic VGA Cooler Rev3 installed successfully, or so I thought. I ran ATITOOL and I barely managed to get no artifacting at STOCK SETTINGS ??

My question to myself, what was the point of that ? I have no artifacting now, but I am only stable at 377/332, which is like 1% less than factory spec.

Part of me is asking myself, is it not making proper contact ? not enough artic silver compound, did I not screw it in enough ? Or do I have to accept the fact, I have an AIW card........
 
Sc0ttFern said:
thats good to hear, I heard the AIW cards are very hard to overclock. I haven't even done that, and the stock cooling isn't enough. Glad to see this has worked for everyone else.

Any tips or tricks for installing it? I don't want to mess it up.
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hehe, how very untrue :) look at my specs
 
Sc0ttFern said:
UPDATE:

My question to myself, what was the point of that ? I have no artifacting now, but I am only stable at 377/332, which is like 1% less than factory spec.
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........what is your secret ?

Oh, watercooling, my bad. I wish I could pull like a 395/365 at least :(
 
The metal square that surrounds the GPU (if you have one) I very carefully run an exacto knife under it, being sure to not cut into the PCB.

This will allow you to clamp the heatsink to the GPU tightly, you do have to be careful not to bow it to the point where the heatsink touches the open circuits on the GPU top (if there any)
 
That piece looked like it was part of the circuitry, lapping the vga cooler wouldn't do anything ? because it looked like it was machined and had swirls.....
 
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