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I'm just very happy with what I have. And don't think I'll be going with that.. My cooler, can keep my video card at 63c. And that's 3 hours of playing Grid.. So, I'm very happy due to where I live.

Yep, no reason at all to go to Accelero as you already have aftermarket one. It's just quite expensive and thermalright products don't come down in price. Size wouldn't matter to me, as I don't need the 2nd PCI-e slot, nor do I have any other cards plugged in.

I'll go read your review on it, temps seem really nice, I hit 82C in games. Just tried Tomb Raider Legend next gen demo (didn't run even close at the time) and that hit 82C too. 147fps with 1680x1050 with AA wasn't bad at all, considering x1900xtx barely ran it in 2006 =)
 

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Yep, no reason at all to go to Accelero as you already have aftermarket one. It's just quite expensive and thermalright products don't come down in price. Size wouldn't matter to me, as I don't need the 2nd PCI-e slot, nor do I have any other cards plugged in.

I'll go read your review on it, temps seem really nice, I hit 82C in games. Just tried Tomb Raider Legend next gen demo (didn't run even close at the time) and that hit 82C too. 147fps with 1680x1050 with AA wasn't bad at all, considering x1900xtx barely ran it in 2006 =)

First off, thanks for the read. I was getting around that temps also. I believe it was around 85c due to temps in the house.

The AC does look pretty nice, and I do like the fact it comes with Mx-2 all ready on it. I just wish they didn't take their SWEET time getting both of the coolers out for the public...
 

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I think if anything I'll reseat my OE Cooler with some MX-2. I like how the "old" GTX260's have the full cover, you don't see any PCB, it looks so much cleaner to me tbh. If I can find a larger fan to replace the OE fan, I may mod that way...I haven't looked for that style of fan, don't know how hard they are to find yet.

I can't really complain about my temps, as of late, no matter what the hottest I've seen my GPU get is 62C. It's got direct airflow from the intake fans on my Antec 900, which took some work and moving the HDD's above the card, but it was worth it. The stock coolers really respond to forced airflow towards the intakes. Dropped my temps and easy 3C when I moved everything around and completely cleared the airflow path to the card.

I don't know if I'll get much change in reseating the cooler or not, but at this point that'd probably be where I went with it. The AC Extreme looks nice and I know the HR03 GTX is badass, but both are costly and with my temps running cool as-is, I can't justify the price yet. I can stand the noise at 80% on the stock fan because tbh it's not that bad, and I have a headset on 90% of the time I'm at my PC.

Another thing that made a difference was having a sidefan cool the top of the card, that did drop temps and help keep lower idle temps, but when I installed the Scythe Ultra Kaze 3k 120x28mm fan on my Xig months ago it took up too much space so the sidefan had to go.

If I had a GTX280 I would probably be looking at either cooler though, and I'm sure we'll see more in the future with both 260's and 280's getting cheaper and 285's out, there's a good market there for cooling.

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voltage tool let my clocks jump a bunch but actually decreased or showed almost no performance improvement.
 

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That is interesting, how far do your clocks increase using vtool? I have yet to mess with my voltages, but if that's how results are, maybe it's not worth looking into yet.
 

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No boost on my end like I've said before. :laugh: Proper cooling would take a card further.
 
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That is interesting, how far do your clocks increase using vtool? I have yet to mess with my voltages, but if that's how results are, maybe it's not worth looking into yet.

my card will do 760/1512/1280 on stock voltage, with increased voltage 760/1566/1280
and with both clocks I see little improvement over 700/1512/1180. As a matter of fact it actually goes down performance wise as voltage is added. 700/1512/1180 seems to be the sweet spot on this card with my cpu at 3.95ghz I'm scoring 19,870 ish in 3dmark06 and with the other two gpu setting give or take a few hundred points up or down.
 

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What about game benchmarks? Any noticable or unnoticable performance changes there?

Still pretty decent clocks, I've been running 666/1458 1200 for so long...the card runs through everything I do (gaming and folding). I'm not much of a bencher, but I will run a few passes every once in a while.

Interesting info there trt. I doubt there's any kind of bottleneck with your setup, so like you said, the 700/1512/1180 is probably the sweet spot. You could always see how low you can take the voltage to maintain stability there, maybe drop a couple degrees. That'd be cool to see results of too!

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What about game benchmarks? Any noticable or unnoticable performance changes there?

Still pretty decent clocks, I've been running 666/1458 1200 for so long...the card runs through everything I do (gaming and folding). I'm not much of a bencher, but I will run a few passes every once in a while.

Interesting info there trt. I doubt there's any kind of bottleneck with your setup, so like you said, the 700/1512/1180 is probably the sweet spot. You could always see how low you can take the voltage to maintain stability there, maybe drop a couple degrees. That'd be cool to see results of too!

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yes it seems my black edition 216 matches this card step for step and my 192 matched them both when 1.18v was added ( because of how massive it overclocked).. example


My ram on this card did 1288 but because the timing was so loose it seems 1188 is the spot for these cards performance wise. This score is within 200 points of the max bench for the 280 gtx. The funny thing is this 192 clock was 24/7 stable and the 280 gtx wasn't.


Here is a 280 gtx bench to compare with it's not my highest but it one I saved


 
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I'm actually kinda suprised about those results...any chance of a DX10 vantage comparo? I'm curious to see if that trend continues...I've read mixed results, and never really bothered to dig, but if you happened to have a couple of screeny's on hand I wouldn't mind seeing that too!

Thanks for the results!

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I'm actually kinda suprised about those results...any chance of a DX10 vantage comparo? I'm curious to see if that trend continues...I've read mixed results, and never really bothered to dig, but if you happened to have a couple of screeny's on hand I wouldn't mind seeing that too!

Thanks for the results!

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sorry xp only
 

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Well darn! Finally have a card I can change voltage to anything I want, and I find out in the end that the stock voltage is pretty much perfect. Can not make this card do 1512 shaders for the life of me. If I decrease vcore I can keep it many c below what I thought was the danger temp of 83c, but it still artifacts at the exact same point in furmark, and can cause issues in games like crysis. Oh well, I guess wc some day....
 

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Well, I'm seeing mixed reports on this, but my 280 has downclock back with the new 182.05 driver.
 
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Well, I'm seeing mixed reports on this, but my 280 has downclock back with the new 182.05 driver.

I'm not sure what ya mean downclocked?
 

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Well, I'm seeing mixed reports on this, but my 280 has downclock back with the new 182.05 driver.

I thought 185.20 were latest drivers!
 

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I thought 185.20 were latest drivers!

185.20= latest alpha leaked drivers iirc, they didn't do anything special for me
the 182.05 beta's are the most recently released beta's iirc. They seem to be bouncing around a bit, personally I stuck with 180.48's as the stability and performance are both very good. Plus the newer 181.20 whql's would make Fallout3 CTD on me.

Though the newest beta's do look tempting from the possible gaming performance increase, but so far I've read mixed results on them.

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Oh great, finally downclocks at idle with these drivers, but the bug where it downclocks during folding is back. Sure can't fold very fast at low-power 2d settings! I think maybe the screen saver makes it kick in idle speeds, guess I'll have to disable it and see.
 
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Oh great, finally downclocks at idle with these drivers, but the bug where it downclocks during folding is back. Sure can't fold very fast at low-power 2d settings! I think maybe the screen saver makes it kick in idle speeds, guess I'll have to disable it and see.

That was what was happening to me a while back. Disabled screen saver and that solved it.
 

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Well, I'm seeing mixed reports on this, but my 280 has downclock back with the new 182.05 driver.

Oh great, have to try them then if they'd work with 2 displays as well, thanks for the info.

edit: doesn't downclock with 2 displays, at least with two DVI ones. Seems you have DVI+VGA, might have to try with adapter some day if I get desperate :)
 
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Cold storm just bought my 280 gtx get ready for some massive sli.
 

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Sorry for double posting! But, there is another aftermarket fan we haven't looked at yet... Silenx iXtrema Pro

But, to warn everyone... I can't for the love of me, find the cooler to buy... Gotta wait on the baby!

TT.. I love the reviews, but you make me Cry!
 
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Sorry for double posting! But, there is another aftermarket fan we haven't looked at yet... Silenx iXtrema Pro

But, to warn everyone... I can't for the love of me, find the cooler to buy... Gotta wait on the baby!

TT.. I love the reviews, but you make me Cry!

I believe a 280 gtx would explode with that cooler cold if a 9800 gtx is hitting 67c under load.
 

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I believe a 280 gtx would explode with that cooler cold if a 9800 gtx is hitting 67c under load.

It probably would... I love this HR that you linked me to so many moons ago... Couldn't even think about going with another cooler!!!
 
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