VGA Silencer passive on 9600 PRO

PartEleven · Post by **PartEleven** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:15 pm

Well I just purchased a first generation vga silencer second-hand, only to find out that the stupid fan has the infamous rattle that has plagued the silencer series of coolers. Looking at the actual heatsink, I noticed that it's quite big in size. Since the 9600 PRO doesn't produce all that much heat, I'm wondering If I would be able to use the vga silencer passively. Any thoughts? The card doesn't have a temp sensor, so I won't have a way to monitor temps.

autoboy · Post by **autoboy** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:42 pm

I use it without the fan on a 9600XT just fine. Make sure you remove all the extra plastic. I thought I was the only one

unibomber51 · Post by **unibomber51** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:19 pm

I would go for the arctic cooling accelero s2, it passive and at a good price
i just got it for my friend yesterday
the installation seems a bit flimsy but secure enough

FiXxXeR · Post by **FiXxXeR** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:26 pm

assume we're talking about the radeon (agp-sloted gfx)? my old (for sale by the way

) 9800 pro runs with large sinks on both sides. no problems!

PartEleven · Post by **PartEleven** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:34 pm

Yeah I was talking about the Radeon 9600 PRO. The accelero S2 would definitely be a great choice, but I got this thing cheap and if it does the job then why spend more money. Autoboy, how hot does the heatsink get?

SebRad · Post by **SebRad** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:26 am

Hi, I used to have the same setup with VGA silencer on 9600pro. I had the Silencer wired up to the 12v/5V toggle on my Zalman MFC1.
I tended to run it with 5V feed to the silencer (set on low of course) at which the fan turned but very slowly, it will not start at this setting. For gaming I would just flick the switch and have 12V feed for "normal" low speed which is ample for 9600 series cards. I did also have times when it was just turned off, card survived fine. You could experiment with 7V/5V feed to your card and flick the high/low switch on the back.
Or make some kind of off/on switch, have it off when idle and on for 3D work, generally game sound effects will drown out any noise made.
Seb

mrzadoc · Post by **mrzadoc** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:03 am

The Zalman ZM50 is an older discontinued solution that works great on the 9600 and 9700 series of Radeon cards, provided you have some airflow in your case.

I don't have piles of airflow and my case interior is pretty warm due to a power mad Intel Prescott , but this seems to work wonderfully for me.

Get one here (same seller I got mine from)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0009061821