That's great. I actually probably would've misidentified the VRMS as well without the help of those pictures. Incidentally, I was not having VRM overheat issues with the stock cooler on the Sapphire (still am not), so if you're considering this card it's not necessarily a "given" issue. Grabbing som...

Though I am looking at an AGP version of this card, generally, everything is about the same between the AGP and PCIe versions. The stock Sapphire hsf is having trouble cooling the voltage regulator modules (VRMs) on some of these cards. I've seen threads online where owners of the X1950 Pro AGP car...

Well, I tried hooking up the ZM-80D-HP to the X1950 Pro. My first worry was that the physical size of the card would prevent the ZM-80 from being attached. With some effort, I was able to make it fit. One of the unexpected problems was that the 6 pin power port is positioned almost exactly in the ri...

72C is prefectly fine. 67-75°C is usually the limit for CPUs before they start throttling themselves down. GPUs are rated up to 100°C and higher. I think most newer nVidias are rated up to about 105-115°C. My old passive nVidia 6800 idled at about 60-70°C and went up to about 85-90°C under loa...

I was running a video stress tool yesterday andthe video card seemed to not quite top out at 72-ish when the card's fan was at minimum speed. This is still safe right? Cheers, Dan I seem to recall reading somewhere that 70C should be considered a "yellow line" - that is, it's not optimal to be runn...

I took a look at the 7600GT, the 7900GS and the X1950 Pro over the holidays. For a few extra dollars, the 7900GS was much more powerful. BUT, for a few dollars more (I was able to get a X1950 Pro for $227 CDN before taxes = 98.74 Pounds) you can get a X1950 Pro 256 MB. The X1950 Pro seems to beat bo...

I don't know where the x1950Pro stands in comparison but I have the Zalman HP-80D on an x800GTO running completely passive which runs fairly cool. Hmmm... good to know. Is there anywhere that one could find out how much heat a specific VGA chipset puts out in relation to another? I'm probably going...

I just picked up a Sapphire x1950Pro 256MB PCI-E over the holidays. My old MSI 6600GT had a Zalman HP-80D which was completely silent so the new card is adding a small amount of sound to the case by comparison - not a lot, mind you, but noticeable nonetheless. I'm thinking of trying to hook the HP-8...

I own the pcie version made by sapphire, based on my knowledge, I'll try to answer your questions as best I can. I just picked up a Sapphire x1950Pro 256MB PCI-E over the holidays. My old MSI 6600GT had a Zalman HP-80D which was completely silent so the new card is adding a small amount of sound to...

I've been using a Zalman ZM-80D-HP on my MSI NX6600GT TD128 for three weeks with games like HL2, Far Cry and Call of Duty. Right now it seems to idle in the 45-47C range, and gets up to around 57C maximum after many hours of playing Counter-Strike source. Details here: http://forums.silentpcreview.c...

Here is my field report on the ZM-80D-HP: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=18268 ...and here is Edward Ng's (SPCR reviewer) of the VM-101 http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=17921 I don't know how either would perform in a low airflow case. My case (Fong Kai FK-333) has ...

J-azn... check your card name very carefullly - if you have a NX6600 TD256 or TD128, the Zalman ZM-80D-HP will work with it. The NX6600 VTD256, VTD128, VT2D256 and VT2D128 will also work (as well as all of the "E" subversions of these cards. The NX6600 VT2D256, VT2D128, VTD256 and VTD128 versions wi...

I only have about 3/8" clearance max. Based on what I saw in the installation manual, it looks like both sides of the heatpipe & plates will be mounted securely even without the top brackets. I think I'll give it a try without them to see. My case is a desktop so my graphics card will be sitting ve...

Ah, very sorry. I'll measure the distance when I get home tonight. EDIT: Measured - the clearance you need is 17-18 mm (5/8" or so) above the mounting bracket - that is, the distance you specify in your drawing is about that much. I think you could probably get away without having them - but it woul...

Beautiful. Job well done. I'm ordering a ZM80 right now to put on my own 6600 GT (The dual DVI XFX-brand), with you to credit for the inspiration. John... check the alignment of your GPU on your card. Some people have indicated that they're having problems with the ZM80D-HP in combination with the ...

Kozure Hm.. I'd say the temps are mostly fine, they might be little lower than they should be, but that's probably the way the mobo reports the temperatures. Also keep in mind that the greater the difference between the ambient and CPU temperatures is, the more effective your HSF will work and you ...

Just work your way through the available sensors in MBM until you the ones that report "realistic temps". The CPU temp will be the higher of the two you find, generally, and it will be the one that jumps up when CPU load is applied. (CPUBurn, linked in our download page, is the simplest way of turn...

I've tried loading it in a number of ways. CPU Burn was recommended here, so I tried that. I've also run HL2 and/or FarCry for several hours with the polling times in Asus Probe set to 30 seconds, and when I check the graphs at the end of the period, it's usually peaked at around 35C, with motherboa...

As detailed in this previous post... http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=18128 ...I'm getting very low temperature readings for my Pentium 5 540 3.2E GHz CPU with a Zalman CNPS 7700-Cu heatsink and fan. Now, ordinarily, I'd be very happy with low temps, but I'm consistently getting load...

Hey Ian, just in case you missed it: Field Report: MSI NX6600GT TD128 w/Zalman ZM-80D-HP This guy used the rectangular base block rather than the square one, which made it possible for him to mount the heatsink on straight. I wonder if the mounting holes are in the same place for the Albatron and t...

Well, here's what my eyes show me:



nVidia drivers 66.93.

I'm really not trying to be argumentative.

Images of the vented drive bay cover as requested. Here's an image of the materials and tools collected to make this thing work. http://www3.sympatico.ca/czono/Images/materials.jpg Here's a rather blurry shot of the filter foam, the drive bay cover with the cut out and the grille behind and the piec...

Pictures as requested. The interior of the FK-333 case. I know the cables look horrible. I'm waiting on some more split loom and some new IDE round cable. I'm a newbie - be gentle... [img edited duplicate]http://www3.sympatico.ca/czono/Images/case-int.jpg[/img] Angle on the ZM-80D-HP in relation to ...

wooglin wrote:pics of the finished product?

Ah, as I thought I had made clear in my posting, my battery charger is currently AWOL, so I can't take any digital pictures. As soon as I find the charger, I'll post some pics.

After running my Seagate Barracuda V 7200 200GB drive in a SilenX Luxurae Hard Drive Silencing Solution (HDSS) for a little while I found that the temperatures were running away. With the HDD basically packed in a foam that acted as an insulator and only heat-sinks to cool it, it was reaching temper...

After going through a series of steps to quiet my system (new Zalman 7700Cu HS, Panaflo 120mm L1A on Fan Mate, HDD in Luxurae enclosure), I found that the loudest component remaining was the fan on my MSI NX6600GT TD128 graphics card. Which isn't to say that it's loud - it's actually a relatively qu...

The MSI NX6600GT TD128 that I have seemed to have just a tiny daub of thermal paste on the memory modules. It didn't look like it was doing anything at all. Over the weekend, I replaced the stock cooler on the card with a Zalman ZM80D-HP heatpipe cooler. Playing HL2 for a few hours gets me a GPU tem...

Heh... grabbed MBM5, but they don't seem to have auto-calibration for the P5GD2 Deluxe. Does anyone know the proper settings? As far as I can tell, the sensors should be: Winbond W83627EHF-A chip sensor controller Case: Winbond 1 CPU: Winbond 2 diode But when I input those settings, I'm getting inco...

My error. I looked at the wrong portion of the online store that I had bought the drive from. The drive is, in fact, a Seagate Barracuda V SATA 200G ST3200822AS. My apologies for the mis-read. I monitored drive temps with the aforementioned Dtemp application. With the drive bay cover on, the tempera...

A short update two days in... A few times in the past few days I'd pop off the side cover and bezel (easy with the FK-333 case) and touch the heat sink. They were almost always hot to the touch. During this time, have you ever checked your HDD temperature using an app like Dtemp ? It might be a wis...