Zalman VGA Heatpipe

I'm planning on buying an MSI K7N2-V as my next motherboard, but I wanted to come in these forums 1st and make sure that everything I want to put in it will fit. I have a Leadtek Winfast 250 Ti 4400 card, and while I love the graphics, I can't stand the sound from the two fans on it. I hate it SO much that I ordered a Zalman ZM80C-HP to put on it.
I was looking at the pictured of the MSI K7N2-V MB that I would like to order, and noticed the capacitors quite close to the agp slot, and a white tab at the back of the agp slot, which I'm assuming is some sort of device to help the vid card stay in place. I was hoping someone in here might have some experience with installing a Zalman VGA cooler on this, or a very similar MSI motherboard, and if I would have any problems. Thank you very much for you time
Paul Dostert
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Here is the newegg link for the Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-130-444&catalog=22&depa=1
And Zalman's cooler
http://www.zalman.co.kr/english/product/ZM80C-HP.htm
It *looks* like it'll work, but just curious if anyone has used a zalman VGA cooler with a MB with capacitors a bit close to the AGP slot, and if that white tab thingy (like my technical jargon... "thingy"?) will interfere with my heatpipe. Thanks again!
Paul

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and the 7000A is the quietest thing in the case.
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http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/
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The sound of silence

I'm finished. All I can hear is the air passing in and out of the box. I've got peace in mind and can work without having a nuclear power station under my desk.
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have to agree with you
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Quote from: Svet on 12-August-09, 20:23:52
which one? http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=searchresult&keywords=NX7950GT
Min seems to be the "MSI NX7950GT - VT2D512EZ - HD", latter one with VIVO support. It does have passive cooling using heatpipes, and a sticker on it says what I put in double quotes above. That would be this card:
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ASUS P455 REV: 1.00
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GPU-Z: MSI BX7950GT-VT2D512EZ-HD:
GPU: G71 Revision: A2
Device ID: 10DE-0295
BIOS Version: 5.71.22.42.06
Subvendor: MSI (1462)
ROPs: 16
Bus interface: PCI-E x16 @ x16
Shaders: 24 Pixel / 8 vertex
DirectX support: 9.0c / SM3.0
Pixel fillrate: 8.8 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate: 13.2 GTexel/s
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Bus width: 256 Bit
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GPU-Z: For ASUS P445
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DirectX support: 9.0c / SM3.0
Pixel fillrate: 8.8 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate: 13.2 GTexel/s
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Bus width: 256 Bit
Bandwidth: 44.8 GB/s
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Originally posted by Upstart
So i take it you're happy with the combo of the Zalman 7000, heatpipe on your vid card and the swiftec NB heatsink? I think i might follow suit.
Yeah, that combo works well for me. I haven't tried many other cooling options, so there may be better options out there. There's a new video card heatsink similar to the Zalman with two heatpipes and a Swiftech CPU heatsink with heatpipes. If I had to do it over again, I'd give those a try.
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¤ Zalman ZM80D-HP VGA Dual Heatpipe
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¤ Zalman ZM-7000A-CU
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Originally posted by sui
well, you could compromise and get an arctic cooling vga silencer... they are very quiet. the only issue is room above the nf3 chipset and it will take up 2 pci slots below.
OK, I'll think about that and read some reviews. I've allready read good stuff about it, just haven't considdered it, cause I thought 'why go low-noise if you can go no-noise', but since this cooler draws air out of the case, other fans could possibly spin slower, so it may be a contestant.
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Originally posted by Fladlish
Hmm yes you can use them togehter, but you'll have to do some ghetto Modding though.
And One or two PCI holders won't be useable.
And It won't be pretty at all.
I know, I did it
se http://it.hule.harryda.se/itda00b/freejs/data
The 9800 Pro doesn't have any temp reader, but with the fan @ 5v it got really hot to the touch, now days I'm using a potentiometer controlling all the fans in the computer, and surfing the web etc it doesn't really matter if the GPU get's a little hot.
That was innovative! Don't have the guts to do such a thing though. Since I haven't bought my stuff yet, I'll rather play safe and try other solutions.
BTW: Do you mind if a post a link to this modding on the sweclockers forum? It might help someone there.

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Hi SirMurray,
I have the CNPS7000A-AlCu and the ZM80C-HP and the 7000A-AlCu is only about 2cm (maybe less) away from my graphics card. There is no way to have both the 7000A-AlCu and the ZM80C-HP (same goes for ZM80D-HP as Im 99% sure it is the exact same size as the ZM80C-HP) installed together without modifying the ZM80.
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