Neither of these cards underclocks or undervolts in 2D by default. Some Gigabyte cards do though. I've been trying to reprogram the BIOS on my 9600GT to give the 2D underclock/undervolt with no success so far. Edit: An answer and it's not good: Just to remind the GeForce 9 series mainly work with th...

I've made a number of updates to the system now. Some time ago I updated the BIOS again and the CPU temperatures have changed again. Up by 8C I think as it put the CPU temps inline with the Speedfan core temps. Looks like Wolfdale support wasn't complete in the previous version. Still not sure about...

Buy any decent 9600GT and stick an Accelero S1 on it. That's what I've done and it's quite a bit cooler than an S2 cooled card like that ECS.

hi, im wondering when you use the accelero in the SG03 does the side brace still fits The side brace fits in fine. It helps the cooling of the graphics card just by keeping the air from the front channelled down a bit more. This also shows that air guidance would improve things. The biggest problem...

The S1 works very well on a 9600GT. I have one on mine. The VRM's are not cooler however. This isn't entirely necessary but I cut up the stock heatsink to liberate the VRM heatsink part which I then screwed on over the VRM's. See further up in this thread for discussion of this.

I don't need the Giagabyte card, I need the bios of this card to give it a look and try to modify my ECS 9600GT bios so it would also have different 2D/3D clocks and volts (as the Gigabyte 9600GT) so the power consumption (and heat) of my 24/7 system is lower My experiments with this haven't worked...

have u considered dremmelling the metal between the two hard drives so you could make a silent suspension setup I want to keep the hard drive cages more or less as they are so that I have the spare bay for future use. I'm also wary about a suspension system if the system has to be moved. I was thin...

KyonCoraeL wrote:Have you tried flipping your supply upside down so the air gets taken from outside of the case?

No, I have not tried this. As the PSU fan does cools the CPU, I don't think it would be such a good idea. It would also mean having no clear airflow path through the entire case.

Having run the system for about 3 months, the temperatures inside have been rising over time, I thought this would mostly be due to the warmer temperatures now it's coming through to summer, however, a lot of it was from dust building up on the dust filter. I'd only vaguely cleaned it before but tod...

I'm very interested to see how you will do this. This is my plan: http://b.imagehost.org/0762/hdd-1.png What this shows is a cross section through one of the hard drive bays as if viewed from the side of the case. Currently the disk is clipped in to the sides of the tray by plastic clips. Just by t...

If it's a PCI-E card both will fit. If it's AGP neither will fit.

If I can get hold of a better microphone I could stop all of the other moving components in my system and record the sound, then analyse it's spectra and see what frequencies it makes. If it comes out with a dominant frequency of 100Hz then that's obviously a mains power buzz (2x50Hz). Someone with ...

Having read the methodology discussed here I decided to have a go at some frequency analysis. In the same way a mobile phone is the only digital camera I had to hand, a mobile phone is the only microphone I had to hand so the recordings had to be converted from .amr to .wav for analysis and the qual...

I have a similar setup toyours, but if you would believe it much quieter.., If it's this system here then it's debateable either way. My PSU should be quieter than yours and the fans are going to be pretty similar. Where you do win though would be HDD noise. That's the big noise issue left for me a...

@hozer2k: I've not done anything about the hard disk yet. Initially I was quite dissappointed with it as it seemed louder than I expected. However, having run it against the 160Gb Seagate 7200.7 in my old machine, it's actually very quiet, it's just because the machine is so quiet it's more noticeab...

So bringing things back on topic, I think my Leadtek 9600GT with an aftermarket Accelero S1 and custom VRM heatsink is the best silent 9600GT so far:
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Give it separate 2D/3D speeds and voltages and it would be better.

Ash wrote:correct me if im wrong, but your cpu hs cooler is the enzotech extreme-x right?

Well actually it's not. As shown in this thread and in my signature it's a Silverstone NT-06 Lite. It's the one recommended for use in the Sugo series of cases.

I have now cut a VRM heatsink from the original stock cooler. This has all of the right points to cool the VRM's. It was running stable anyway and I'd seen no issues but this is partly a personal comfort thing and also to show other people who aren't so sure about using the Accelero's that VRM cooli...

An S1 running passive will be enough on a 7900GS. If you want to go cooler than that then stick a low profile fan or two on it, possibly the optional turbo module. S1 makes much more sense.

The passive graphic cards have nearly a half of the life of an "normal" air cooling (even if you don´t play games) if you doesn´t have a good air flow and heatsink in memories. It´s a fact! Really? Unless you're able to substantiate this 'fact' I'm going to find it very hard to believe it. The r...

Do you really mean the 8800GT? I'm just wondering as your sig says 8800GTX which is totally different cooling wise.

If it is an 8800GT then I'd say go for an Accelero S1. If it's not enough passive, attach a slow 120mm fan to it.

Are you using Real Temp for the CPU? Other programs seems to be reporting the wrong temp. I am not using Real Temp but I'm not bothered by that either as it may well give the wrong temperatures. Initially the BIOS was reporting a CPU temp sometimes below 0C. That was obviously wrong but was because...

i wish there were 3 more VGA heatsinks to stick onto the VRMs, i don't trust them, even though stability is rock solid. I'm thinking of taking a hacksaw to the stock 9600GT cooler to cut off the VRM cooler part of it. It's got a pair of screwholes and is made to measure so will fit on the VRM's nic...

Quite a lot of airflow may be going to waste with that open a layout. I disagree with the idea of putting a vented PCI slot cover in below the graphics card, that would further waste air as the whole expansion slot area does not need much airflow in that system. Below the graphics card is pretty muc...

Why not take a hacksaw to the standard 9800GTX cooler to take off the VRM heatsink part of it and screw that on over the VRM's then attach the S1 to the rest of the card? There's plenty of room under an S1 at that end so you should be fine. I don't particularly like the look of that AC 9800 cooler. ...

I've never seen a comparison between the two on the same card so I've had a go at it myself. I only bought an S2 originally because I couldn't find an S1 rev 2 in stock. The S2 won't be wasted as I'll try it on an older card. The graphics card I tested on was a Leadtek 9600GT. The system it was test...

datapappan wrote:So, +116 C on a GPU before shut-off.

I had a 5900 which hit 118C OK. It would throttle down at that speed and bounce off the 118C limiter continuously.

This is my first build that is intended to be quiet from the start. My previous Shuttle SN45G got a lot quieter over it's life but this time I didn't want to end up replacing half of it just to get it quieter. The SG03 is an unusual Micro ATX case. There are various reviews of it up, here's the firs...

My 425W unit is definitely the quietest fan cooled PSU I've had. Fan normally runs at ~480rpm this may be due to the CPU cooler in the way raising back pressure and causing spin up.

Looks like for some reason the card has chosen to do 500/1250/500 all of the time. Obviously this round of reprogramming hasn't worked. Again, if anyone has a Gigabyte 9600GT that changes clocks, please upload the BIOS to MVKTech.net.