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What onboard cooling is better for video cards. Fans or heatsinks?

Fans	83%	83% - 5
Heatsinks	16%	16% - 1
Total: 6

2007-04-12 10:44:49

BeerzGod: Hooray Beer!; +94|7039|United States

I'm buying a new graphics card to upgrade from what I have currently so it will hold me over until the new models (Post 8800's) come out in the near future. I plan on going with a version of the NVIDIA 7950 but I'm having trouble deciding and/or finding help on which onboard cooling component is better on video cards. Fans or heatsinks. Money is not an issue and neither is fan sound... I use an X-Navigator case with 6 case fans and just want the best cooling feature. Thanks in advance!

These are the two I've narrowed it down to:

BFG GeForce 7950 GT OC PCI Express 512MB GDDR3
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe … ode=326052

-OR-

XFX PVT71JYHD9 GeForce 7950 GT XXX Edition PCI Express 512MB GDDR
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe … ode=321107

2007-04-12 10:46:14

Undetected_Killer: Le fuck?; +98|6755|FIYAH FIYAH FIYAAAAAAH

Heatsink?

2007-04-12 10:56:56

BeerzGod: Hooray Beer!; +94|7039|United States

The second link to the XFX card... the graphics card doesn't have a fan to cool itself. Look at the silver housing on the side of the card... the heat sink draws heat away from the GPU and disperses it. It makes the card completely silent, but doesn't seem like it would work very well... thus, the point of this poll.

2007-04-12 11:04:09

Noobpatty: ʎʇʇɐdqoou; +194|6823|West NY

Liquid cooling. All i got to say.

Last edited by Noobpatty (2007-04-12 11:04:46)

2007-04-12 11:04:25

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6883|Finland

teh winner is xfx
"At full load the XFX GeForce 7950 GT recorded a temp of 78c" Not bad for passive cooling huh?
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.h … wxLCwxMTA=

edit: with 6 case fans u have good airflow in ur case to cool that card

Last edited by [69th_GFH]GC_PaNzerFIN (2007-04-12 11:06:44)

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2007-04-12 11:06:33

Stormscythe: Aiming for the head; +88|7018|EUtopia | Austria

Passive cooling ('heatsink', as you'd call it) is alright, but works perfectly with an additional fan

2007-04-12 11:12:25

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6883|Finland

btw that should be fan+heatsink or heatsink

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2007-04-12 11:15:44

The Stillhouse Kid: Licensed Televulcanologist; +126|7111|Deep In The South Of Texas

Just buy whatever card you like and replace the stock cooler with a Zalman.

2007-04-12 11:54:34

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|7051|SE London

The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Just buy whatever card you like and replace the stock cooler with a Zalman.

Or if you're in the UK the Arctic Cooling ones work out much better value. In the US the price gap doesn't seem so great.

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