Asus Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti200 cooling

[Jake]

Hi!

I recently bought an Geforce 3 Ti200 and it has a thermal sensor built onto the PCB which measure internal GPU temperature.

When I run it without overclocking it has a stable temp of 47C under load. (Playing Wolfenstein high detail for about an hour)

I can overclock it to 230/520 and the temp rises to 53C.

So I bought a Crystalorb cooler and mounted that on the PCB. I have however not seen a decrease in tempertature at all! This thing has a 6600 RPM fan and a copper base! I all reviews I have read about it, temp decreased from between 5-10 degrees overclocked or under heavy load.

I did not apply new thermal grease to the GPU or Crystalorb. There was plenty on there allready to just attach the Crystalorb.


Do you think I would gain anything from using Arctic Silver? Is this even recommended on GPU's. Or is it only for use with processors?

Suggestions are welcome.

Regards,

Jake

[Kosh Naranek]

I doubt using Artic Silver will make any difference and if it makes any only very little !

The way to go would be to apply some more case cooling, because not matter how good a cooler you use it can't make any differences if it only has hot air to work with !
You could try to remove one side from the case and see if it has any effect at all !

[Beezer]

I'm curious about why you want to overclock your card already?

I just got a new system almost exactly like yours (same video, processor, and mobo). It runs every game I have with all visual settings at max without the need to overclock anything.

What applications do you have that require more power from the video card?

[orangejulius]

HardOCP overclocked the Ti200 <a href="http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/vidcards/nvidia/gf3ti200_gf2ti/index5.html">successfully</a> -- with <a href="http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/vidcards/nvidia/gf3ti200_gf2ti/hs_gf3ti200.jpg">no fan</a>.