FX5700 Personal Cinema Cooling

[Cheator]

I have this here Nvidia FX5700 Personal Cinema card. Its only real use is a video card as no software likes it's TV tuner.

Since this is the case, I want to make the cooling silent but I want to cheap out on it and just ziptie a heatsink. does this thing put out alot of heat? It has the external molex connector but it idles at 35 and loads at about 50. Anyone ever done this before?

[Celeron_Phreak]

That's some good temps for that card.

I've got an NV Silencer 3 I believe on my FX5700 Ultra TDH GDDR3 card that my little brother is using. Dead silent and cools great. I'm getting 35C idle and around 46C load.

Great cooler. Pulls air from the inside, through the heatsink and out the back of the case. It was worth the $28 I spent on it, that's for sure. The card is about 2 years old now and still going strong!

[Cheator]

Yeah and I think that will be my last resort. I saw the silencer and know that that will be a killer. For now though, I plan on putting an old Athlon heatsink on it. I just need to know if that would be enough witha bit of airflow in the case.

[nd4spdbh2]

if you have the space just use an old P4 or stock hs on the thing with a slow fan. I did a p4 stock hs on my 6600gt with an 80 mm fan on it at 6 volts it loads at 52*C compared to 68*C b 4 @ 12volts it drops load temp to 45*C and it idles at about 3-4*C over ambient.

http://teamlosi.andrevas.net/pics/comp/gfx%20card/P3110015.JPG

it cost me nothing... i had the extra hs and fan and hardware... just about 2 hrs of my time that would have been spent playing bf2.

[Cheator]

Wow. If a 6800 can do that then this 5700 should be able too. Thanks. Now i just gota figure out if i can ziptie it down

[mystfied]

I tried to ziptie an A64 heatsink to my 6800GS (think I chipped it a bit, too :( ) and no matter how tight I made it, it would never make good contact. When I pressed it on manually, I did get very nice temps, though. But I scrapped that in favor of a Zalman 700.

You need to drill holes for best results.

[Cheator]

Ah. Alright, you're right. I might just get a new nvidia card to do it. something without a fan