9700pro mod

[speeduk]

Ive been messing with my connect 3d 9700pro ever since i got it. My first attempt at overclocking didnt go well so i left it at stock until a few weeks ago. Gave it another try and had to go back to stock speeds. I tried again over the weekend with 2 80mm fans on full speed blowing on the back and front of the card and got upto 356/337 but the heat was just too overwhelming for the stock cooler. The card runs very hot at stock speeds.

Anyways I decided to buy a low profile heatsink, some ram sinks and remove that stupid shim and epoxy the hs to the gpu. The stuff should arrive later in the week but im worried about removing the shim. Is it safe to remove it and glue a hs to the gpu? Im willing to try because i know it can hit 360/330 or more if the cooling is good and the extra performance (700-900 3dmarks or 3-15fps) is well worth the effort.

Thanks...

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[TheMASK]

Hows it going? Any luck with the mod?

<b>thinking of a good sig. till then...</b>

 

[scottchen]

Speeduk try the Zalman passive heatsinks with 80mm on each side of the aluminum cooler, i still managed to cut some copper ramsinks and fit it under the 2 aluminum plates. It worked great on my ATI 9700 pro, I reached 410/720 core/mem without artifacts of course.

I hate Computers! I could only overclock my Barton 2500+ to 2580mhz(vcore 1.65). My Radeon 9700pro core/mem speed won't go above 410/720. I really hate computers!

 

[speeduk]

Too late for that. I epoxied some big ramsinks on lol. Im happy with it as it is because I need to volt mod the card to go higher than 356/333 anyways. Its at 347/324 and running fine now and I will be upgrading to the new ATI card at christmas anyway. If I had a better card (its one of the first rev's) then it might be worth it. Thanks for the info tho

<A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6772243" target="_new"> MY RIG </A>
<A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1050289" target="_new"> 3D-03 </A>
<font color=red> 120% overclocker </font color=red> (cheapskate)