Arctic Cooling ATI and NV Silencers - Installation
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Removing the reference cooler on the GeForce 6800 took longer than installing the NV Silencer 5. Neither was difficult; both processes simply required the use of a screw driver. Here is the reference cooler removed:
The heatsink in the upper right corner is what cools the core. It is pretty small and I'm surprised at how well it cools the 6800. Granted the 6800 is much slower than the GT or Ultra, but it is by all means still a very hot video card. The L-shaped black piece covers the 6800's BGA memory. Everything is held down by screws with springs around the threads, cooled by the small fan. All that was required for installing the NV Silencer 5 was putting thermal paste on the core and memory, placing the NV Silencer 5 so that its four pins fit through the four holes around the GPU core, placing the four rubber washers on the pins, then tightening four screw nuts on the pins until the rubber washers compress.
And there you have it! The NV Silencer 5 installed on a GeForce 6800. The cooler certainly matches this 6800's black PCB. Not only is the cooler aesthetically pleasing, it should prove to help stability (and overclocking) more so than the reference cooler does. Notice that the base of the cooler is making contact with the 6800's BGA memory.
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