Posted by $tUy_B
Sazar, what moddifications have you done to your 9700Pro then, i noticed in your sig. you say "modded"??
I was thinking of getting some TIN plated BGA ramsinks & a crystal orb cooler.
a couple of things I done...
yah I have the copper bga ram sinks.. link is down right now from where I got it... but you can look around for them... pack of 8... costs around 35-40 bucks....
the metal extension at the back of the card (supposed to aid heat dissipation) I have a MASSIVE copper thermaltake passive cooler on that to help it more...
the fan I am not going to mess with... I do not plan on drillin holes on a 300+ dollar vid card right now
besides it works fine... no real and excellent cooling...
I have taking her up to 420/390 as is... all passive cooling... no artifacts
she stays default most of the time though... 325/310... oc's very nicely...
CAUTION
do not oc your card if you do not know the risks that come with it... not all cards oc as well as others... depends to an extend on gpu and bga memory yields as well as available cooling/system setup... do NOT oc if you are not familiar with how to do it... I am not going to be responsible for people blowing their cards up
ALL WARRANTIES ARE VOID WHEN YOU OVERCLOCK
remember that
end of CAUTION
the pcb for all radeons as far as I can tell is pretty much the same... sapphire is one of the top as they basically use the exact card shipped by ati and perhaps change the heatsink on it..
I would like to eventually change my fan to something like the smartfan2 from thermaltake... BUT the mobo design will force me to utilize 1 pci space to the left of the card and I dont want to do that...
latest drivers do not always help.. I dled the 7.77 cat's (beta ) and they blew on my rig... so I went back to the 6166 drivers... now I am using 6193 and they are brilliant... for me though...