Radeon x800 XT and Heatpipe Cooling

[UnseenClass]

I'm building a Silent system, and with that slapping a heat pipe on the video card would be grand. What's your opinion? I was looking into the Aerocool VM-101 (can dissipate more than 70W of heat); have you guys tried or thought of going the heatpipe rout with your x800s?

I've been looking into them and none of them say that they're "rated" for the x800, but that's because they probably haven't tested it yet. Or does the x800 produce that much more heat than the 9800, I've never really looked into that aspect.

 

[bob63]

I just ordered an X800XTpe and plan on using my Zalman ZM80C-HD to cool it. I ran across this http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=29015
Acording to this thread the Zalman worked fine and actually ran slightly cooler then a 9800XT

 

[Unoid]

1u + ramsinks = better

 

[UnseenClass]

I just ordered an X800XTpe and plan on using my Zalman ZM80C-HD to cool it. I ran across this http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=29015
Acording to this thread the Zalman worked fine and actually ran slightly cooler then a 9800XT

Really? Awesome, I might use that or the Aerocool solution.

 

[UnseenClass]

Has anyone seen any articles of the Zalman ZM80C-HD used on an 6800U?

 

[speeduk]

65C load is the same as the vga silencer temps I got. Prefer my vantec aeroflow though. 31c idle 53c load and thats @ 570/577 with 1.52v and 16 pipes. With 12 pipes it ran 4c cooler.

Gonna be sticking a swiftech block on there soon and run 1.62v through it. Maybe hit 600 on the core?

 

[ForeverUnknown]

Gonna be sticking a swiftech block on there soon and run 1.62v through it. Maybe hit 600 on the core?

that's what i'll be doing too