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by **brownbox** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:25 am

Yes it replaces your existing cooler. You unscrew/unclip your old one, and screw this one on in its place. It is then usually plugged into the graphics card, or a 3 pin-molex adapter which comes with it.

The heatsinks for the RAM are then stuck onto the RAM chips using the supplied heat transfer tape

by **Charl** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:22 am

OK thanks for that I'll watch out for an ATI 5 then.
Meantime I have whacked a hole in the side of the case and attached a $15 extractor fan.
This seems to drop all temps maybe 3 deg, and notably the HDD down 8.
However the weather is cooler too so who knows?
But when that ugly ATI graphics card clears its throat and spews hot air all over the interior, the MB again goes from 45 to 72+.
You'd think the card manufacturers would think of supplying ducting for an aftermarket installation, wouldn't you?

by **brownbox** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:12 pm

Charl wrote:You'd think the card manufacturers would think of supplying ducting for an aftermarket installation, wouldn't you?

If they did,im guessing it could raise the price of manufacturing the card, making people not buy it, and buy Nvidias ones

by **Jimmy** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:37 pm

Acording to the nvidia control panel my new 7600GS's GPU is at 33degrees sometimes up to 35...... so looking at some other temps thats rather cold

I wounder how hot my old card was unning, seeing as its fan seized up and only cooling was a PCI fan beside it :lol:

by **brownbox** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:34 pm

yeah, those 7600gs run really cool,thats why i like it. Also, its very fast (As fast as a 6800gs which runs 70'c+ :clap:

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