Gainward Geforce 3 ti 200, needs better cooling....

[kyle1745]

I just bought a Gainward TI 200 geforce 3 with 128mb ram, and I am looking to overclock it to around a ti500 with air. I can get the memory to about 480 with the stock ram sinks, but thore core speed is not budging. So I need some advice about what to repalce the ramsinks and the GPU HSF with. Crystal orb doesn't look like much more than what is already on the card. I'm not really interested in water right now, so whats good guys?


GPU HSF?
Ramsinks?

And where can I get em?

Thanks,
Kyle

 

[kyle1745]

What about this?
http://store.yahoo.com/sidewindercomputers/crysmonvidco.html

Kyle

 

[ptwearnhardtfan]

Dude, I don't think your using the right program. Everybody I know with a Gainward GeForce3 Ti 200 can overclock the heck out of this card. I bet if you feel the ramsinks that they're hardy even warm. I have my card at 230 core/ 525 mem, with room to spare, all with stock cooling. I use Riva Tuner. Give that a try.

 

[kyle1745]

I have just been using the reg hack and doing it in the drivers. Like I said I got it to 200/480, but the core will not budge without artifacts.

This is the new card too with 128mb of ram.


Kyle

 

[Crappy]

I have the 64mb version of that card and it runs 250/575 with the stock cooling. I did have the added bonus of getting a card with 3.8ns mem on it.

 

[Rezman5]

Mine is running at 240/500. I replaced the double sided tape that was on the RAM with Artic Aluminum adhesive (can be found at www.sidewindercomptuers.com for a good price) and the thermal paste with Artic Aluminum

 

[Just shoot]

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/

 

[Silver]

The 128 meg cards I am not sure about. Mine is running at 260/590 and I have made a few "suicide" type runs at 270/600. I am using the original ram sinks (though I pulled the tape and put as on them) along with a Jag Cooler 1U on the GPU. I have also vmodded the vcore and vmem. I do not have the card running at those speeds on a daily basis as I see no reason to try and burn it up. Modified the bios on the card so the card boots up at 230/500 and this works fine for evrything I do. Best score on 3dmk2001 using 98se and an athlon is 9197.

 

[rivercom9]

If you think the cooling isnt working for you, I suggest you get the Cooljag 1U HSF if you want to cool your gpu as much as possible without going h20. You can get the Cooljag cooler at newegg.com.

 

[fade2black]

If you think the cooling isnt working for you, I suggest you get the Cooljag 1U HSF if you want to cool your gpu as much as possible without going h20. You can get the Cooljag cooler at newegg.com.

I just got one of these for mine. I'm going to take some before and after temps with my Digidoc and post them here. I'll also post some O/C results because I'm about at my max with the stock cooler now. That way you can get a good idea of the cooling capacity of the CoolJag on this card.

- Fade

 

[rivercom9]

Thanks fade2black. I really wanted to know how much more effective the Cooljag is, but no one really knows exactly how much.

 

[kyle1745]

Yes, please let us know hoe the Cooljag is. I don't think the stock HSF does crap. I have removed it (it was covered in normal heat sink compound) cleaned it off then put on some Arctic Silver. Well that was a waste of time, no luck. I am going to order a Cooljag tonight.
It is hot (at least on the back of the board), I do not think the stock HSF works very well.

Not sure if it is worth the time and or $$ to even mess with it anymore. Not going to be that much speed difference consifering that it does not look like I am going to pull that much more out of this card. Kind of a let down, but still a great card.

It runs fine at 200/450, and 200/480, but there is not a speed difference in the second. I get artifacts if I run it at 210, but it will not give me a blue screen until 240. Thats what leads me to believe it is cooling.

Ideas? anyone?

Kyle

 

[fade2black]

I plan on doing all the testing this weekend (hopefully I'll start tonight) and post the results as soon as I can.

- Fade

 

[kyle1745]

Anything yet? I think I am about ready to give up on mine. I have put a old larger HSF on it and I still can not even get to 210 core. I think it is a waste of time for me to spend too much more time on it. If I would get anything it would not be much. I might put the original HSF back on, but for now I've messed with it enough.

Kyle

 

[fade2black]

I'm going to finish this...honest I was really busy this weekend and didn't finish everything yet. I still have to do the testing with the cooljag (I at least got it mounted!) and then I'll post the results.

- Fade

 

[rivercom9]

Are you going to take temps or just see how high it clocks? Or both?

 

[fade2black]

Here's what I plan on doing: Take temps idle and load with stock cooling, temps idle and load with the cooljag (attempting to keep ambient room temp the same for comparison), O/C with stock cooling, and finally O/C with cooljag. Stable O/C will be based on 3 runs through 3DMark 2001SE at 1024x768 - 32bit with no crashes, artifacting, etc. Does that sound good? I could use some ideas on what to run to put the card under a load to measure the load temps (like the Q3 torture loop or just use 3dmark??)) and how long I should run it. I was going to run it under load until the temp stablized and mark that as the "load temp" Any ideas you have or anything else you would like me to test, let me know. I'm open to anything....as soon as I get time.

I didn't get anything done tonight because I had class and I'm tired...5:30 comes mighty early So far I don't have anything planned for tomorrow night, so I'm going to get as much done as possible.

- Fade

 

[kyle1745]

Souds great i'm waiting to read the results.

Kyle