Where can I get nice, but not expensive GF2 cooling kit? [Archive]

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Jeffy

10-09-2000, 11:23 AM

Overclocking the GF2 is the best overclocking improvements I've ever seen. The limit of mem bus is 380 before I see a little artifacts. I hoping to hit 400 without artifacts and need some mem heatsinks to do that. Do you know where I can get them without costing me much? It would be cool if I could turn my GF2 GTS to a GF2 PRO, or maybe really close to GF2 Ultra!!!

mfbf

10-09-2000, 01:58 PM

http://millisec.safeshopper.com

AuraEdge

10-10-2000, 08:03 AM

www.2cooltek.com (http://www.2cooltek.com) has things like RAM sinks for the memory. I dont think these really work, since Ive had little RAM sinks and they havent done anything for me in the past, but maybe it was just the RAM on my card.

Then www.tennmax.com (http://www.tennmax.com) has probably the best normal sized heatsink/fan for video chipsets.

Jeffy

10-10-2000, 10:52 AM

What GF2 do you have, AuraEdge? The Prophet 2 is the only GF2 with mem heatsinks, but sharkyextreme noted that they do nothing in overclocking.

RobRich

10-10-2000, 10:58 AM

Memory heatsinks will only help when you have extremely high case temperatures. Otherwise, your wasting your money. My Prophet-II includes mem-sinks, but they have no real purpose other than "looking cool."

The problem most likely lies within the speed grade of your memory. Feel lucky to reach 380, as my card has slight artifacting above 370, even with my latest editied reference BIOS flashed to the card.

Good Luck,
Robert Richmond

Jeffy

10-10-2000, 01:28 PM

I'm hitting 210mhz/375mhz currently with hardly noticable artifacts about once every 1000 frames in q3arena on standard leadtek geforce 2 cooling. The guy at ocworkbench got 220mhz/420mhz with the vice 3 copper cooler and wing fin mem heatsinks on the leadtek gf2. 420Mhz was the limit on the overclocking utility.

AuraEdge

10-10-2000, 01:43 PM

I got 240/370 w/o artifacts, and can get up to 240/390 w/o artifacts in 3d (I only get artifacts when wheel scrolling down web pages between 370 and 390)

I have a Leadtek Geforce2 GTS. I had memory heatsinks w/ 3M thermal tape in the past, but ripped them off for some odd reason I dont remember, and it can still reach the same speeds with the same limitations.