Hehe, well i got my new parts, box one, this prevous thursday, and in box 1, was my zalman vf700-cu. well i am happy. yesterday night, i decided to make this the best computer job ive done, so i got some 91% isopropyl alcohol and a pack of 300 q-tips. and i took the old heatsink off of my 6800GT, and cleaned it well. i got some Artic Silver Ceramique, which works very well. I put the perfect amount of ASC on my card, followed the directions, all ram sinks lined up 100%.

my stock temperature: ~70*C

my zalman vf700-cu temperature: ~45*C

MUCH BIG DIFFERNCE!

money = time

time = work

work = effort

all of those come together and your VGA Card is cooler than you thought it would ever be.

my load temperature is only about 52*C. i dont have any plans to overclock the videocard, but it runs perfectly.

all of you who have a card running hot hot, get yourself the VF-700CU, install it with all youve got in yourself, and you will end up being the happiest person alive.

Tom

EDIT: while typing this, my temperatures read:

Hey Hymn ! What's up?
I wouldn't trust the Nvidia drivers about the temps....i have latest 77.77
and they still lie.
I am using Everest for my temps as i found this program very accurate !!
U can see that in my system i have Ambient of 41 C in both.
But the GPU Core is different.So my actual GPU temp is 47 C
i know that because becides the soft sensors i have the GateWatch sensor stickied to GPU and he also show me 46-48 C.
So in ur case GPU is not 46 C but 36 C ! And it never was 52 C at load it was 42 C.

Geez,u have 31 C ambient temps,what ur room temps like 20 C ??? Cold !
Cuz i have my room temps 30 C and ambient of 41 C.



Try to get Everest and check the temps with it .
VenuS

well my room is in the basement, so its quite cool down there.