So the telling question for me is will i get away with installing shamans with slim fans on my 6950's??? Hmmm.
as promised theres enough room passion fruit, get a 12mm height scythe slim fan and you will have a load of room
Dave any idea how these performed passively? I dont have anywhere near enough room on my RIIE for one of these coolers with a fan on it.
Il knock the fan off and have a fan blowing at its side and post results for you later, I did it the other day but Ive since deleted a tonne of data , alternatively if you really want it looking awesome you could have a shaman on the bottom card and a spitfire on top, that would look the business man edit, infact Im considering this, it would look total overkill but I like that
Cheers mate, any chance you can give it a bash without the fan blowing on the side, as the size of my HSF makes it very difficult to install a 120mm on the side of my Antec1200. Spitfire, not heard of that one!?
yeah Ive the same problem (antec 900), what could be done is have a couple of spot cools blowing onto the cards, I dont have one yet but I will improvise check out the spitfire and all its awesomeness lol http://www.thermalright.com/products/index.php?act=data&cat_id=30&id=93 EDIT: just noticed what you said, your hsf is too large, sure man Il try this for you later and see how we do, Ive asked to get a spitfire in so hopefully I can review that next
Dam that things big, dont i can fit that in either lol. Mind you im hoping to watercool my CPU soon so that giant lump of a HSF wont be on there for much longer hopefully. My PSU is quite tall so dont think i could have it pointing downward either. Does look a monster though!!
Cheers dude, appreciate it. Look forward to seeing the results, can u test at stock frequency and volts, and say 950Mhz on the core with whatever volts you need for that? Unless of course temps get too high at stock settings with no Fan then abort
sorry matt havent been able to get round to it yet had a hell of a busy day with the kids Im knackered! I will do my best to get this done soon
tell you what put a heavy OC on that and get back to me lolol. Their complaints sounds to me like a Ferrari is not running faster than a Toyota Collola on NY Fifth Avenue. Suggest them test both coolers on cards like the 5870 or newer GPU’s and over-clock, then tell me AC is a good cooler. Nobody with a braincell would chose this over shaman, plus you know the shaman comes with its own ty-140 fan right? The best fan for silence and cooling on the market, I wouldnt listen to AC's mimbo jambo on their silent solution, they make up their Db numbers just like thermaltake, Ive got one of their 21db silent fans, sounds like its going to take off, thermalright dont lie about their figures, the ty-140 is a real silent solution, I cant hear it at all from 50cm away and if you put your hand over its pushing a ton of air, better than my antec big boy and thats saying something. Anyway the AC solution will fall short in any test, belive. Shaman is designed for top end gpu's, not mid range cards like the 5830, they dont even get hot, that review is garbage. Plus the AC cooler did WORSE than the stock cooler before a vrm solution was added in, shamn did better, how is AC the better cooler again?
^ The Shaman uses a VRM cooling solution which simply does not work. Even if you try to fix this problem using better thermal strips or thermal adhesive, the VRMs are still almost literally set on fire by the Shaman. While it's true you could also buy a better VRM cooler separately anyway, it would cost you around 30 € extra. Without this, the Shaman is already a little overexpensive. Although I do not dispute the fact the Thermalright TY-140 fan is fantastic, my conclusion on the Shaman remains. It absolutely does not provide better temps and it absolutely does not make less noise than the Arctic Cooling Accelero Extreme Plus on the hottest cards of them all (GTX 480).
on fire? dude your so wrong its unreal the vrms are fine they dont get that hot, do you have one or are you just reading biased reviews a bit to much? my vrm sinks are stuck fast, had no issue at all and they do their job fine, hence higher oc's than using pretty much any other solution. Remember this is a high end cooler for high end cards, most high end users will have a high end case with high end airflow going over their high end parts, your talking out of your arse mate, do you work for AC or something? Yes I know I wrote high end 9000+ times, its to get it in to your head. PS the accelero is very loud compared to a TY-140, you just cant compare, lol Ive no idea where you get that assumption from.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1103-page1.html At the very bottom of the page there's a useful explanation. EDIT: For HD 6970 you can use the bundled version which uses the VR001 : http://www.overclock.net/ati-cooling/901647-accelero-cooling-6970-a-5.html
haha so youre saying a 92mm fan, sorry 3 92mm fans ramping to 2000 rpm is going to be more silent than 1 ty-140 going at a max of 1300rpm :3eyes: nice fact bro one extra little thing, this review is garbage, it doesnt use original parts quote: We opted to reuse the memory heatsinks from the Gelid Icy Vision but the large mounting plate interfered with the ones at the edge of the card. The ramsinks cannot overlap the memory chips, so we had to turn them 90 degrees. this review is pants mate
^ The difference between the VRM heatsinks they used for their review and the Arctic Cooling VR001 set is negligible. As for fan noise, I didn't claim the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus is more silent than the Thermalright Shaman, because I claimed the Thermalright Shaman is not more silent than the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of reviews are dead wrong when it comes to fan noise. The human ear is not equally susceptible to all frequencies. Moreover, not every human is equally suscpetible to all types of noise. Even if all humans were equally susceptible, measuring fan noise would still be fairly meaningless without using an advanced measuring technique based on something like for example Sone. Personally, I think when it comes to noise the Shaman and the Accelero Xtreme Plus are virtually the same but when it comes to cooling performance the Accelero Xtreme Plus is the winner.
