Date: Monday, June 14, 2004 Author: Rbreb13 Provided By: Xoxide Page: 2 of 3
The install was relatively painless and the instructions were pretty good. I did have to modify the installation a bit due to the fact this cooler was not designed with my GF3 in mind. Screw identification was the hardest part. But a little testing of threads beforehand gave me a general idea of what went where. Thermaltake does provide an ample supply of thermal paste and it's needed. According to the instructions you pretty much goop up everything liberally, which I did. Then I cleaned up whatever squished out that I could get to. It was a fairly messy job but I buy my acetone and alcohol by the gallon so it was no real problem for me. I ended up leaving on the ramsinks I already had installed because they had plenty of clearance. Even most of the larger BGA ramsinks available on the market should fit with this cooler.
The first tests I ran were with the GF3 Ti500 w/CORB and ramsinks. I used the Nvidia 41.09 driver for the tests. All driver settings were set to performance rather than quality. I have found it to be one of the most stable ones out there. For the tests I ran 3D Mark 2001se Build 330. I ran the tests several times and kept the highest score. (I mean who doesn't) The first test is at stock speeds and the second is at the maximum overclock I could get without crashing, freezing, or artifacts.
