Is the stock 8800GT cooler really this bad?
So I just spent about 5 minutes putting on an Accelero S1 on my XFX 8800GT and about an hour and a half sticking the damn ramsinks on. I thought I did a pretty crappy job, reseating the heatink over and over again without reapplying new TIM to the core or anything. I haven´t even put a 120mm fan on it.. and I´m sure the ramsinks are halfway to falling off again.. already. Yet, for some reason I ran 3Dmark 06.. and even by the end of the tests, my temp never even broke the @ idle of the stock cooler. And so far, no artifacts in ATi tool.
I mean, my setup is no super airflow machine like a stacker or an antec 900:
(^sub out the 7600GT +S2 with a 8800GT + S1 [use your imagination])
I´m just running 2 scythe AD1212DS something something fans 120mm(non sflex), (one exhaust and one cpu hsf) and one more 120mm enermax enlobal fan near the hdd at the front of the case. Max airflow for each of these fans is optimally 30cfm.
My temps basically went from 55idle/90Load to 35idle/55load.. passively. I really can´t believe this. -____-
