OCing the Parhelia yet??????

[Guru]

Originally posted by Kruzin
Well, I brought home that crystal cooler today.
There's no way it would work on Parhelia. mounting pins on P are just too far apart.

Fits my G400 nicely though

Do you think this would fit?

http://www.zalman.co.kr/english/product/nb32j.htm

[Cheesekeeper]

Fit yes, work no. The Zalman coolers are all designed to provide moderate cooling with the minium amount of noise possible. Since that cooler is designed for motherboard chipsets only, it's unlikely that it's designed to dissapate anywhere near as much heat as the Parhelia chip will put out (especially without a fan attached). Plus, it's quite tall enough that it will still overshadow 1-2 slots next to it. Unless someone (like these guys at 2cooltek) turns out a custom solution, a rack-mount CPU cooler will probably be the best way to go. Those coolers are designed to handle the heat from a 1GHz PIII - the Parhelia should be no problem (if we can attach the thing)........

[MrGaribaldi]

Cheesekeeper> Well, my Zalman flower keeps my cpu more than cool enough even when I oc it, so I wouldn't be too afraid of using it.... Just place a big diameter fan above it, and it should do fine...

.02$

[borat]

hmm forget all the rest this looks like the way to go if you want silence

http://www.zalman.co.kr/english/product/zm50-hp.htm

as for that other zalman as stated it was for mobo chipsets not gpu's and certainly not for cpu's

[Kruzin]

I don't think it would even fit. It would be too small.

[Greebe]

I have a Zalman CNPS 3000G and it rocks for cooling cpu's.

BUT!

Due to it's rather narrow center section being what connects the fins it wouldn't be somthing I'd be putting on a Parhelia. The two end clamps are made of aluminum and thus won't draw the heat away like a standard HS (aluminum or copper) would. It would effectively leave a stripped section with good cooling and the opposing sides much HOTTER.

[OZZIE_NO_GOOD]

he there is already a newer version off the drivers hehe it 26 now was 25 ore did i miss it already heehe

[Fenrir(AVA)]

Does this mean Matrox actually cares about what people are saying about the Parhelia?

[CHHAS]

Would be very interesting to see if the new drivers has improved the benches.

[Wombat]

Does this mean Matrox actually cares about what people are saying about the Parhelia?

No, it just means they are continuing to improve drivers.

[Alfie]

Thyere's some interesting coolers here,check under video card and chipset coolers.

http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/

[Greebe]

Stock Parhelia HS is 50x50x10mm

[Greebe]

3.3 ns is 300 MHz

3.3ns is a hair over 303mHz

1000/3.3=

[Cheesekeeper]

Originally posted by MrGaribaldi
Cheesekeeper> Well, my Zalman flower keeps my cpu more than cool enough even when I oc it, so I wouldn't be too afraid of using it.... Just place a big diameter fan above it, and it should do fine...

.02$

Don't get me wrong - I love Zalman coolers. The flower is one of my favourite CPU coolers (for orginality alone). Although the flower could do a great job with the Parhelia, it would pretty much use up all of your PCI slots. Zalman have released a flattened out version of the flower to use on video cards (it still requires that you leave at least one slot free though) - it's very clever (and silent), but it's also fairly useless from a cooling perspective. It can't be used on higher-clocked Geforce4 cards,as it usually doesn't even cool as well as the stock fan/heatsink.

Of course we don't know just how much extra cooling would be needed to get the Parhelia stable at 20MHz higher, but it's possible that even some of the stock GF4 coolers would be good enough. I'd doubt the baby-cooler they put on the Parhelia is even half as effective as some of those - and they will all work without using an extra slot - for instance:




Of course, coming from Australia, my opinion has to placed into the proper perspective

($AUD0.02 -> $USD0.01)

[Voyager3D]

On thing i like to know...
The OEM version, does it has 3,3ns RAM also?

It would be pretty cool if i could overclock it from
200/250 to 240/300 and that for a cheaper price than for the retail version... Of course i need to have some new cooling one the GPU and som heatsinks on the RAM to do that..

That would be 20% overclock..
Or 9% over the retail version..

And if we get 10% in driver optima. that would be 30% and 19%