9800 pro heat

[l3ored]

i touched my heatsink while my computer was on (internet browsing) and the pain made me cry. anyone else have an extremely hot heatsink? one more note, if i feel the exhaust comming out of my case, its pretty cool, so the heat isnt from lack of good airflow.

[TimoneX]

The stockers do get pretty toasty. I tore mine off and stuck a big AMD heatsink on there. It barely gets warm.

[HousERaT]

i touched my heatsink while my computer was on (internet browsing) and the pain made me cry. anyone else have an extremely hot heatsink? one more note, if i feel the exhaust comming out of my case, its pretty cool, so the heat isnt from lack of good airflow.

the stock heatsink on most 9800pros is utter crap. Rid yourself of that and get a vga silencer..... they go together like peas and carrots.:p

[l3ored]

i've had great results underclocking the video card. when i play games, i just use radlinker to overclock it again for convienience. any idea how low is safe to go, and am i going to have any problems with it underclocked (now at 200/200)?

[MysticX23]

what if u use a zalman zm80c...is that better than stock or no? no overclocking

[l3ored]

i'm not going to buy anything extra yet... just messing around with what i have. i've had some major problems with artifacts when underclocking. jumping straight to 200/200 gave me artifacts, but i was able to take it down gradually. but of course, when i ran a game, i got serious artifacts from such a large clock jump. anyone know what to do here?

[l3ored]

fixed. its the memory that doesnt like jumping around. its now at 200/336 in windows, and jumping back and forth with games at 411/357, hooray. more testing to follow, for now, i'm tired.

[HousERaT]

all that core power going to waste on a crappy heatsink..... :(