Sean W.
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if your running your grphics cards fans at 100%, if your nividias are anything like my Radeon, 100% fan speed is extremely loud. how come you dont get VGA coolers?
The base of the heatsink is already flat so lapping won't help it. Flat is Flat, I can't make it flatter. I may need to buy some sound dampening material, well see.
I just ordered the Delta's so I won't get them til Wednesday. That is the only way the heatsink will mount to my motherboard because of the size of the Northbridge heatsink.
I could easily downclock to 4GHz and increase my memory latencies which would drop my temps dramatically, but it would also reduce my performance so that is not going to happen.
With the Video Cards "over-volted" and heavily "overclocked" I had the fans at 100%.
PM me with your email and I'll send the wallpaper to you, there is no nudity.
The Kaze and the Delta you linked to are 38mm fans. They will not fit in the middle slot of the heatsink. And the 252cfm Delta is really overkill, there comes a point when all the additional air is of little benefit. With the (2) Silverstones I've got around 210 cfm, with (1) Silverstone and (1) Kaze (results below) I've got about 240cfm and the (2) Delta's will be producing around 300 cfm. Will see what they do before I buy any other fans
NH-D14 w/ Silverstone FM123 and Scythe Ultra Kaze
Using the Ultra Kaze dropped my temps by 1 to 2 degrees C. I wasn't paying attention and I had LinX set to run 20 times instead of 20 minutes so I stopped the test manually after 20 minutes.
if your running your grphics cards fans at 100%, if your nividias are anything like my Radeon, 100% fan speed is extremely loud. how come you dont get VGA coolers?
lol i read somewhere that 60db is the equivalent to a plane flying overhead and 80 db is that of a fighter jet taking off, these things are getting loud lol. looking at the hardwarcanuck review i see itl be hard to make a after market cooler for he gtx480, its got a complicated design for one and the quality of the cooler is very very good for once as well.