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"Radeon 9800 XT and extra cooling advice..."

It arrived yesterday morning and has so far kicked some serious ass when it comes to graphically demanding games at very nice frame rates. I have a query however. The temperature of my graphics processing unit is 67 degrees celcius (152 F). Now I'm not into all this cooling none sense but I wonder if someone could help. Firstly is this too hot? The little temp bar suggests not and its no where near full, about half way probably. Secondly, would using the noob style overclock (over drive) up the temp too high and spoil the card? Thirdly, what can I buy to cool it down that will go in my PC somewhere? I am looking for an extra fan of some sort but I am not too sure about all this cooling business and could do with a little help/point in the right direction. Finally, would a couple of extras fans increase the cards performance (without consuming too much power) considering that it would be running at cooler speeds?

One other thing, I can only seem to run Far Cry with Medium settings (Texture quality and water effects are on default Very High for the recommended count for my card) with only the 2 settings on very high. Every other game (Max Payne 2, Call of Duty, C&C Generals, Splinter Cell, Halo, Prince of Persia, Deus EX: Invisible War) runs on top whack settings with little to no slow down at all. I am thinking it is possibly a bug with the drivers and the game (currently running the Catalyist 4.10 Drivers for Windows 2000). Will this be fixed for the release of the game or am I doing something wrong?

My PC specs are:

Windows 2000 (with service pack 4)
Direct X 9.0b
Athalon 2600 + XP (clocked at 2.1 GHZ)
1GB PC 2700 RAM
Radeon 9800 XT 256mb
40GB Maxtor (7200 RPM) Hard Drive

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Merci!

I love my Tyan Tachyon G9600 pro.....

*strokes card*

*gets electric shock and tips of fingers are chopped off by fan*

YYEEAARRGGHH!!

I know my card can detect the temp with software because I used some drivers once from an overclocking web site and they told the temp, but C+C generals wouldn't run so I went back to official drivers.

Icarus - website is www.yesasia.com and search final fantasy x-2 from the front page. They seem good because I got order confirmation immediately and they have Amazon style order tracking. Plus I ordered Famitsu seperately (has FF12 on disc) at around 11PM last night and they shipped it out this morning!

I am looking for an effective method that will actually show a considerable drop in the heat, not something that looks good. I have seen them around the net but reviews state they didn't notice anything outside of a 2 degree C drop which is pretty pi$$ if I want to use the OverDrive feature.

I would say that 67 degrees is a bit too hot. I dont like anything to go over 55.

If you want a bit of extra cooling you could get a zalman heatsink and fan, it sort of assembles around your graphics card and apart from providing a bit of extra cooling, it looks rather spanking too.

Belldandy wrote:

> I only have 3.9 drivers so that's probably why I can't find my temp -
>

Nah just means your card doesnt have the temp detector fitted.Mine came with third party software but the damn card doesnt have the detection hardware.

As far back as 3.8 drivers I think have temp and overdrive features but only for the XT series.

What the crap? Forgotten, Forgotten, Gollu, GOLLUM

Nope, forgetten all about it. A word search is in order.

Icarus wrote:
> And what's with the name change again, Bell?

Well I couldn't access the Belldandy account 'cause of an email problem, BUT in another thread I read that some people had found that when SR updated the forums they wiped out many accounts which were aliases of current users. Thus, I wondered if Belldandy was one of those, tried the name change, and here I am. Instead of being named after a futuristic space fighter I'm now named after an anime mythical thing instead.

I only have 3.9 drivers so that's probably why I can't find my temp - I read that 4.1 might not work with Far Cry so never installed them.

Did you see I posted that website for the Tiny Bee guns Icarus?

The 4.10 drivers have an OverDrive utility which shows your current temp and the Core speed your card is running at. Its a TAB within the advanced properties of the display bar.

And what's with the name change again, Bell?