ASUS V8200

[Valid]

I was just wondering if anyone had played with the cooling on this. It seems like it has pretty decent heat sinks/fans attached already, but I was thinking of taking them off to at least smooth the bottom/use arctic silver adhesive. Anyone done anything like this, or replaced the hsf?

[JaY_III]

OEM heatsink are nice, but often thay are put thier for looks, if they look cool they will sell.

Taking them off, and replacing with beter sinks is a great idea
taking them off and just applying proper thermal paste ins another good idea, if you can lap them.

My Geoforce 2 MX (i am poor) had a P3 heatsink/fan and fan on the GPU, and a Pentium heatsink/fan on the ram. helps with overclocking alot.

[Karsta]

Looking against light it seems that my V8200 has better applied thermal compound than V7700 I had. Anyway because it gets hot AS and better fan/hs would help. According to Asus V8200 uses up to 28Watts. I guess that the cooling is already quite good because we don't see very high temps -the fan is after all quite tiny...

If you deside to take that HS off I'm interested in hearing how well thermal compound was spreaded originally. I won't touch mine until I have more powerful computer - no use to o/c it yet...

[BladeRunner]

I suppose you could call this playing with the cooling :)

[img="http://www.zytec.worldonline.co.uk/pictures/jpgs/v8200water-cooled.jpg"]

Asus V8200 GPU & Ram water-cooling 260/560, (coolant @ 14°C), & without modifying the card in any way including voltage mod.

[img="http://www.zytec.worldonline.co.uk/pictures/gifs/v8200sdcool.gif"]

[Karsta]

Looks great! One question though - why is smart doctor showing 4500 rpm for fan?

[BladeRunner]

I wanted to be able to keep using the Smart Doctor so I made a Pulse generator, (with a great deal of help), which tricks the card into thinking it still has a fan attached. That way Smart Doctor can still be used. I do intend to run the Pulse Gen through a flow meter eventually so It will pop up saying the fan has stopped if my pump or waterflow has stopped.

[img="http://www.zytec.worldonline.co.uk/pictures/jpgs/pulsegenopensmall.jpg"]

How to make an artifical fan "pulse" circuit?? (http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/Forum11/HTML/015650.html)

[Shadow ÒÓ]

Sharp lookin lil box you made there!

Thanks for the info!

[Karsta]

Wow!

[Badger]

BladeRunner,
NICE JOB
I've just got a AsusV8200 Delux (after a Elsa 920). I've not got around to taking any pics but you can see my cooling rig in the article on peltier cooling a geforce3 on the front page http://www.overclockers.com/tips585/ (the pics are of my old Elsa)
My Asus is one awesome card stock it did 245/590 without any problem whatsoever, with my peltier/watercooler its running 24/7 at 280/590MHz. After being a little unlucky with the overclockability of the Elsa I've hit the jackpot with this Asus, I've not had the heart to do the volt mod on it yet but 300/600MHz should be possible.