Re: GeForce 6800 memory cooling

Posted on 2015-05-24, 10:49

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by obobskivich

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a stock fan is louder than a VF-700 they are whisper quite even at 12v lol. Some of my slower/lower power cards have quieter stock coolers (e.g. Radeon 9550), but yeah the VF700 is pretty quiet. Anyways, I powered the 6800U up with the VF700, and I'm getting idle temps in the mid-50s. I don't know …

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Re: GeForce 6800 memory cooling

Posted on 2015-05-23, 15:21

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Wildcat REALiZM 800 has one of those low profile blowers, which works fairly well, but that wouldn't be easy to transpose onto this kind of card, and it would be louder than something like the VF700. I know some of the old Diamond FireGL cards also have low profile, high RPM blowers, like this: …

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Re: GeForce 6800 memory cooling

Posted on 2015-05-23, 14:47

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Alright, after nearly 3 hours the "fast curing" adhesive was not setting (directions said 30-60 minutes); being impatient and also not sure why it wasn't working, I cleaned it all off of the 6800. I had kind of a light-bulb moment while doing this though: VF700 can be mounted in two directions on …

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Re: GeForce 6800 memory cooling

Posted on 2015-05-23, 13:57

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The memory cooling plate should have thermal pads between the ram and it on stock 6800GT/GS/Ultra cards. On the 6800 Ultra, there's a "wrap-around" piece with pads that contact the RAM, and then a small (and very light/flimsy feeling) heatsink that bolts over the GPU itself. They're mostly …

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Re: Socket 3 boards with PCI - Worth it?

Posted on 2015-05-23, 13:53

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I'd agree with PCI for simplicity; there's a lot of options for PCI cards, and many of them are pretty cheap.

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Re: GeForce 6800 memory cooling

Posted on 2015-05-23, 13:50

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Yeah that's about like the Arctic cooler. It makes it a triple (almost quadruple) slot card; on my OC'd 4890 it would run pretty near ambient temperatures at idle, and load temperatures barely budged. That's like a 200W+ board; from an old Hexus (or was it IXBT?) review the 6800 Ultra is more like …

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Re: Has anyone used Amazon for downloading games?

Posted on 2015-05-23, 13:44

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by obobskivich

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Does it require some Amazon client software to be running for the non-Steam/Origin/whatever downloaded game to work? Or just to install? (is it like Amazon's MP3 thing where you need their little plug-in for downloading, but once it's downloaded, you just have a normal mp3 file?)

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Re: Trying to use my SS7 era specific system

Posted on 2015-05-23, 13:42

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I admittedly had not heard of this game Desperados before this thread, and looked it up on GOG to find out more about it. Assuming I found the right game, it not only looks fun, but also looks like a K6 may not be sufficient for it. Here's the GOG page I found: http://www.gog.com/game/desperados_ …

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Re: GeForce 6800 memory cooling

Posted on 2015-05-23, 13:37

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I think you can get away with running the memory without heatsinks if you have good air flow over the card. I can get the DDR1! memory on my Geforce FX 5900 Ultra all the way to 1000 MHz (500 MHz DDR) without heatsinks. With the stock cooler this was impossible as the GPU heated up the memory. …

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Has anyone used Amazon for downloading games?

Posted on 2015-05-23, 13:23

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I'm just curious about how well (or not so well) it works vs something like Steam. Or is it just an intermediary, like you buy the game and then they give you a Steam/GOG/Origin/whatever code?

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Re: Trying to use my SS7 era specific system

Posted on 2015-05-23, 13:18

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I agree with others - try another graphics card; maybe borrow that Voodoo3 PCI just for testing. Another question that I have: what about your hard-disk? Is it very slow/clunky?

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Re: GeForce 6800 memory cooling

Posted on 2015-05-23, 10:27

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candle_86 wrote: yes use ram sinks, it will run very very hot without. it was one of the chief complains of the x800 was its lack of ram cooling, the later 79xx cards where using GDDR3 built on a smaller node Thanks for the clarification. Guess it's time to break out the thermal adhesive. 🤣

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GeForce 6800 memory cooling

Posted on 2015-05-22, 20:33

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Alright, I'm pretty sure that nVidia's stock cooler for the 6800 Ultra is stupendous overkill for the RAM, but I'm curious if *any* sort of heatsink is really needed for the memory devices. If I'm not mistaken, the Radeon X800XT PE uses the same, or similar, memory devices, and I know cards like …

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Re: Voodoo2 SLI in Windows XP?

Posted on 2015-05-22, 20:16

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Just an update - I swapped around multiple nVidia cards in this system and they all worked, but when I swapped to an ATi card the machine hard-locks on start-up once Catalyst and the 3dfx drivers are installed. It appears there's an issue with Catalyst <-> 3dfx (with one or the other removed it was …

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Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-21, 04:57

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People keep referring ambiguously to "bloat" and "fine tuning", but hardly ever does someone point to something specific and say " there , that thing is enabled by default on XP/was installed in a security update but slows the system down". "Security Center"/"Action Center" that SP2 adds can eat up …

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Re: Windows 8 beats XP in performance

Posted on 2015-05-20, 08:41

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Rekrul wrote: Of course it's going to be free, because the next step after Win10 is to move everyone to a subscription model where you will have to pay to keep receiving security updates. Source? Evidence?

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Re: Advice for a video card

Posted on 2015-05-19, 15:50

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I know back around that time (mid-late 90s) I had a Cirrus 5446 which I liked well enough, but I have no idea how the quality/performance compares to the Matrox. I've got a 3DLabs Glint500TX-based card that I keep around for testing and it has nice quality output, and supports relatively high …

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Re: Quick Athlon XP PSU question.

Posted on 2015-05-19, 11:12

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_power_dissipation_figures#Athlon_XP Well the cpu is going to eat ~70W right out of the box. An ati 9800 video card is going to eat another 70-80w at full load. Then memory, the motherboard itself, a single hard drive, 2 basic fans, BAM 300W. I think I forgot …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-18, 21:24

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Finally found a Matrox Parhelia for a price that I can live with; it should arrive next week sometime. I'm hoping to actually take advantage of the triple-output with my primary desktop monitors. For anyone that owns one - when it comes to drivers, am I best off just downloading the latest drivers …

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Re: Pentium 4/III mhz equivalent

Posted on 2015-05-18, 21:18

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Yep! I have a couple ECS P4VMM3's that take DDR or SDRAM. It's driven by a VIA VT8751 (P4M266). All the pics on the internet of this card are terrible, I'm taking some pics later. Too bad almost all caps are swollen on both. I just checked my P4T-F today to find three bad caps (and they are Nippon …

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