Artic Cooling VGA Silencer Rev.3 Power Troubles

Buddahpest · Jul 31, 2004, 11:06 PM

I just purchased a 9800 Pro 256MB card from someone on Ebay. From what I've heard, I think it's a Sapphire. It has the R360 core so I'm guessing that it's a 9800XT in disguise (sp?) Anyway, the artic cooler power cable has two female plugs on its power connector, but the male connector on the Radeon has three. Does this mean that I can't use the cooler on the card? I hope not. Any help would be appreciated.

Prod1702 · Jul 31, 2004, 11:24 PM

From what i have heard the VGA Silencer will only work with the 128 version of the 9800 Pro so i am not sure. I plan on buying one for my card.

ledzep · Jul 31, 2004, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Buddahpest
I just purchased a 9800 Pro 256MB card from someone on Ebay. From what I've heard, I think it's a Sapphire. It has the R360 core so I'm guessing that it's a 9800XT in disguise (sp?) Anyway, the artic cooler power cable has two female plugs on its power connector, but the male connector on the Radeon has three. Does this mean that I can't use the cooler on the card? I hope not. Any help would be appreciated.

you have no problem mate.
quoting from the VGA silencer manual : (just installed one yesterday)
"if there are 3 pole connector on the VGA board, install the 2 pole plug in such a way that the red and black pins are at the same place they where before"

in simple words this 2 female will fit on the 3 pole male connector on the vga board , you only have 2 options find out which one makes the fan go...

cheers , ledzep.

here is the manual:
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/en/sup..._silencer1.pdf

Buddahpest · Aug 1, 2004, 01:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ledzep
you have no problem mate.
quoting from the VGA silencer manual : (just installed one yesterday)
"if there are 3 pole connector on the VGA board, install the 2 pole plug in such a way that the red and black pins are at the same place they where before"

in simple words this 2 female will fit on the 3 pole male connector on the vga board , you only have 2 options find out which one makes the fan go...

cheers , ledzep.

here is the manual:
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/en/sup..._silencer1.pdf

Thanks! It worked. I was worried for a minute that I had just purchased a very heavy paperweight!

ViRuS2k · Aug 1, 2004, 03:29 AM

|I installed one of these today on my X800 Pro lOL

idle temps droped from 52c to 45c and 75c to 65c under max load.

this was at 555mhz core 555mhz memory.

now my card is a speed freak with nice cooling.

on the vga card was 3 pin fan conection and on the vga rev 3 is was 2 pin connecter.

you just have to connect the last 2 pins from the top of the card like this

------------ TOP OF CARD --------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------
POWER CONENCTION

...
[COLOR=red].[/COLOR] <<< your 3 pins join both red pins like this
[COLOR=red].[/COLOR]

[ VPU HERE ]

---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------BOTTOM OF THE CARD------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

i hope that helps lol my ASCSI is crap but it shoudl show you what i mean.
anyway this is a very nice cooler and is chilling very good

Jul 31, 2004, 11:06 PM	#1
Buddahpest DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 218 Rep Power: 0	Artic Cooling VGA Silencer Rev.3 Power Troubles I just purchased a 9800 Pro 256MB card from someone on Ebay. From what I've heard, I think it's a Sapphire. It has the R360 core so I'm guessing that it's a 9800XT in disguise (sp?) Anyway, the artic cooler power cable has two female plugs on its power connector, but the male connector on the Radeon has three. Does this mean that I can't use the cooler on the card? I hope not. Any help would be appreciated. __________________ Intel Core2 Quad Q9650 @ 4GHz / Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R / 8 GB (2GB x 4) G.Skill PC2 8500 / eVGA GTX 280 / Soundblaster Audigy 2 / 2x74GB Western Digital Raptor 10000 rpm in Raid 0 / 250GB Western Digital 7200 rpm / Plextor PX-716A DVD-RW / 1100W BFG PSU / Klipsch 4.1 Promedia / HP w2408h LCD / Windows Vista Ultimate x64

Jul 31, 2004, 11:24 PM	#2
Prod1702 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Eagan, MN Posts: 45 Rep Power: 0	From what i have heard the VGA Silencer will only work with the 128 version of the 9800 Pro so i am not sure. I plan on buying one for my card. __________________ Core 2 Q6600 GO @ 3.75ghz/1.42v Thermaltake ToughPower 1000W Thermaltake Armor Series Black Case LITE-ON 20X DVD burner SATA WD 2x320 SATA 3gb Raid 0 Win 7 64bit 7200 Evga 780i P07 bios Evga 2x8800GTX Superclocked 655/1680/2160 Corsair Dominator 4x1gb PC2 8500 5-5-5-14 2T Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1

Aug 1, 2004, 03:29 AM	#5
ViRuS2k HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Uk Posts: 8,334 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	\|I installed one of these today on my X800 Pro lOL idle temps droped from 52c to 45c and 75c to 65c under max load. this was at 555mhz core 555mhz memory. now my card is a speed freak with nice cooling. on the vga card was 3 pin fan conection and on the vga rev 3 is was 2 pin connecter. you just have to connect the last 2 pins from the top of the card like this ------------ TOP OF CARD -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- POWER CONENCTION ... [COLOR=red].[/COLOR] <<< your 3 pins join both red pins like this [COLOR=red].[/COLOR] [ VPU HERE ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------BOTTOM OF THE CARD------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- i hope that helps lol my ASCSI is crap but it shoudl show you what i mean. anyway this is a very nice cooler and is chilling very good