SLI Coolers

The Arctic-Cooling Accelero X1 should fit and the Zalman V900 should also fit. The Accelero are smaller then the Silencers.
 
I've installed Arctic Cooling Silencer NV5 on my 2 GF6800GT's

Fits perfectly, no problems in SLi here

I found the stock coolers te be loud,realy loud, almost unacceptable
Now with these guys I can hear my harddrive (go figure)
 
ReDgUaRd008 said:
The Arctic-Cooling Accelero X1 should fit and the Zalman V900 should also fit. The Accelero are smaller then the Silencers.
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Did you mean Zalman v700?
 
Totalchaos said:
I've installed Arctic Cooling Silencer NV5 on my 2 GF6800GT's

Fits perfectly, no problems in SLi here

I found the stock coolers te be loud,realy loud, almost unacceptable
Now with these guys I can hear my harddrive (go figure)
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It has to do with the MB gap. I am using a TYAN dual opty MB and the gap is small.
 
Totalchaos said:
I've installed Arctic Cooling Silencer NV5 on my 2 GF6800GT's

Fits perfectly, no problems in SLi here

I found the stock coolers te be loud,realy loud, almost unacceptable
Now with these guys I can hear my harddrive (go figure)
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Yeah - because you have the Asus mobo with the 2 slot pci-e gap.. The OP's got a DFI SLI-DR with a one slot pci-e gap.. best bet for you (OP), well, is go water cooling with a Maze4 SLI block set (one low-pro and one reg height blocks).. that's for optimal cooling.. the new swiftech MCW60 blocks are out now also and are supposedly very nice... but WC is not for the faint of heart always, and it involves buy and installing more expensive equipment... it's fun, but it's rather large project to WC an SLI video card set. . . . so for air cooling with the short gap, best bet is to hunt down a pair of stock coolers for the 7800 cards... did you get 7800GT or GTX cards? 256 or 512mb flavors? that changes things due to the memory chip orientation on the front and back of the pcb.. When my partner in watercooling crime (El Rolio) were on the hunt for 6800 Ultra factory coolers, for our non ultra cards, we hit eBay sellers with modded 6800 cards to ask them if they would sell their factory coolers which were not in use... EDIT: or go with that Zalman ^^. looks really nice. :)
 
revenant said:
Yeah - because you have the Asus mobo with the 2 slot pci-e gap.. The OP's got a DFI SLI-DR with a one slot pci-e gap.. best bet for you (OP), well, is go water cooling with a Maze4 SLI block set (one low-pro and one reg height blocks).. that's for optimal cooling.. the new swiftech MCW60 blocks are out now also and are supposedly very nice... but WC is not for the faint of heart always, and it involves buy and installing more expensive equipment... it's fun, but it's rather large project to WC an SLI video card set. . . . so for air cooling with the short gap, best bet is to hunt down a pair of stock coolers for the 7800 cards... did you get 7800GT or GTX cards? 256 or 512mb flavors? that changes things due to the memory chip orientation on the front and back of the pcb.. When my partner in watercooling crime (El Rolio) were on the hunt for 6800 Ultra factory coolers, for our non ultra cards, we hit eBay sellers with modded 6800 cards to ask them if they would sell their factory coolers which were not in use... EDIT: or go with that Zalman ^^. looks really nice. :)
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Just Googled to get a pic of that mobo and now I see the problem
That would be a "challenge"

btw I looked at some pics from the 6800 UIltra and the GT, could it be that the
stock cooling solution are similar?
If so, I got a couple laying around here...........
 
Totalchaos said:
Just Googled to get a pic of that mobo and now I see the problem
That would be a "challenge"

btw I looked at some pics from the 6800 UIltra and the GT, could it be that the
stock cooling solution are similar?
If so, I got a couple laying around here...........
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Oh - yes, they are, but the ultra has a much more powerful fan and larger sinks.. more cooling surfaces and air generally = better cooling perf. I don't need any of those though, I was just using my hunting methods as an example for finding some factory 7800 series coolers. :)

EDIT: OH! wait a sec.. you mean the 6800 <--> 7800 coolers similar.. ok. that does not work!! the 7800s memory form factor is different and the 6800 factory coolers will NOT fit.. only the gpu cooler itself is compatible.. so waterblocks for the gpu only fit the 6800/7800.
 
Totalchaos said:
Just Googled to get a pic of that mobo and now I see the problem
That would be a "challenge"

btw I looked at some pics from the 6800 UIltra and the GT, could it be that the
stock cooling solution are similar?
If so, I got a couple laying around here...........
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My 7800 GTX's came with NV's.
 
Right - I edited my post above.. the 6800 factory coolers will NOT work on the 7800 series cards.. the gpu part fits, but not the memory part.. so waterblocks for the gpu -only- will fit the 6800 and 7800, but that's it.. the memory 'form factor' (if you will) on those cards is too different to make any factory cooling solution compatible between the two.

Honestly, I am liking that Zalman solution posted above. seems like the best/easiest way to go. but I am unsure about availability at current.. I can't seem to find one in stock anywhere..
 
I have Zalman VF700 CU's on my 7800GT's and they fit fine. Mind you, it's on a Tyan K8WE, and it has a small gap as do most of the Dual Opty boards.
 
WozniakMac said:
I have Zalman VF700 CU's on my 7800GT's and they fit fine. Mind you, it's on a Tyan K8WE, and it has a small gap as do most of the Dual Opty boards.
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I have the same board and I just installed the VF700's, you are correct they fit nicely.
 
Couple of pics.

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theseeker said:
I have the same board and I just installed the VF700's, you are correct they fit nicely.
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Nice.. I did not know that.. I thought they'd hit the other card with the tips of the copper fins.. GTK. :)

I still like the looks of the V900 tho....
 
revenant said:
Nice.. I did not know that.. I thought they'd hit the other card with the tips of the copper fins.. GTK. :)

I still like the looks of the V900 tho....
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I like the looks better myself, but there were none to be had!
 
Yep.. isn't that always the problem? ;) I saw none for sale doing some quick googling earlier... hell, the direct search for 'zalman v900' didn't really hit much of anything.. I guess it's really new..
 
revenant said:
Yep.. isn't that always the problem? ;) I saw none for sale doing some quick googling earlier... hell, the direct search for 'zalman v900' didn't really hit much of anything.. I guess it's really new..
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By the time I find it I will have different VC's any way!
 
Does anyone know where you can buy the Zalman V900? That dual opteron computer with all Zalman coolers looks sweet!
 
benamaster said:
Does anyone know where you can buy the Zalman V900? That dual opteron computer with all Zalman coolers looks sweet!
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Thanks for the compliment, but I could not find the V900 any where.
 
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