Best cooler for GF4 4600 ?

[FACTION95Si]

The stock cooler on my 4600 sucks! Its the weak point of my system. Whats the best aftermarket cooler out right now?

 

[DayUSeX]

phase change or LN 2 cooling =P
yo could go water cooling, just add it to your loop, and get some ram sinks, or a vga silencer would do just as well, and is cheaper

 

[Amourek]

Nothing really great out there for the TI series. Vantec Iceberq4 Pro or Thermaltake GF4 cooler Pro are better than stock, but not by much.

If you used a VGA Silencer, you'd have to figure a different way to mount it since it's mounting holes are for Radeon cards.

 

[Aldred_85]

Nothing really great out there for the TI series. Vantec Iceberq4 Pro or Thermaltake GF4 cooler Pro are better than stock, but not by much.

If you used a VGA Silencer, you'd have to figure a different way to mount it since it's mounting holes are for Radeon cards.

Which has already been done, VGA silencer on a Ti4200, yeah! How did I do it? The outer plates of a bicycle chain, to make an adjustable system. Bodges dont get any better, lol!

 

[smerko]

zalman cooler ZM80C-HP with optional ZM-OP1

 

[FIZZ3]

The Iceberq isn't bad. At least it's copper and its fan is not loud. It also moves more air than for example the stock Asus fan. The blue LEDs may be a drawback if you don't like them.

One thing you may need in addition is a set of memory sinks. The Vantec comes with only four, which are also not stellar (alu with copper-look paint).

 

[FACTION95Si]

What about the Thermaltake Giant?

 

[FIZZ3]

As always when a question containing the brandname ThermalTake is asked, the answer is: mediocre.

 

[SewerBeing]

actually they are not that bad, but I would water cool it, I am running a maze 4 gpu, one word awesome.

 

[jlin453]

I had a Zalman vga heatpipe on my TI4200 when I had it, it worked good

 

[karsten]

I'm currently using the stock HSF from my retail AMD 2500 barton on my TI4200, held on w/ superglue on the corners.

karsten

 

[FACTION95Si]

As always when a question containing the brandname ThermalTake is asked, the answer is: mediocre.

Very True!

How much better would water cooling the GPU be than using a Vantec or Thermaltake GPU cooler?

 

[FIZZ3]

In general h2o would be better, but it depends a bit on your choice of components for the watercooling system. With a powerful (custom) system and a good GPU block, the GPU will be cooled significantly better than is possible with air in that small space. Another convincing reason to go h2o is the elimination of a fan there & having less noise.