Silent cooler for Parhelia APVe?

[Kuja]

Hello!

I'm a Matrox user for 11 years now...

I couldn't live with some great features that only Matrox has, so I got myself an APVe in my new PC.

My PC also has a role of a music server (I'm using Squeezebox and an external DAC) and it has to be as silent as possible.

My previous Matrox cards all had passive cooling (Millennium and G400).

The fan on APVe looks really cheap and it is quite loud!

Do you have any suggestions or first hand experience that might help me in finding the best (quietest) cooler solution?

Thanks in advance,

Aleksandar

PS

And yes, even the exhisting heatsink and fan are not applied properly on APVe!

APVe GPU is located very close to the edge of the card, near the PCIe connectors.
This results in the heatsink not being centered on the GPU.
When looking closely from the side, I can see that maybe only one third of the GPU is actually making full contact with the`heatsink, since it is being off center and slightly tilted because of uneven mounting screws pressure.

The whole contraption seems like an afterthought.

[UtwigMU]

Some of the Zalman Heatpipes used to fit on regular Parhelia. If APVe is similar enough they might also fit on it.

[PAugustin]

As UtwigMU said, the Zalman ZM 80 D fit the Parhelia, maybe it can also fit the APVe. Some people here also replaced the parhelia noisy fan by a quieter one from Verax, maybe you can find one.

[Mikko]

Hi,

I have Zalman ZM80D-HP plus an additional fan ZM-OP1 on my Parhelia 128MB AGP-8x and they fit perfectly. However, Parhelia APVe's heatsink is rotated by 90 degrees so you can't probably use the same metal clips for mounting.

Parhelia 128MB AGP:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/media/image/products/graphics_cards/parhelia/parhelia128.jpg

Parhelia APVe:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/media/image/products/graphics_cards/parhelia/apve.jpg

[Technoid]

Hi,

I have Zalman ZM80D-HP plus an additional fan ZM-OP1 on my Parhelia 128MB AGP-8x and they fit perfectly. However, Parhelia APVe's heatsink is rotated by 90 degrees so you can't probably use the same metal clips for mounting.

Parhelia 128MB AGP:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/media/image/products/graphics_cards/parhelia/parhelia128.jpg

Parhelia APVe:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/media...helia/apve.jpg

Actually the APVe's mounting holes looks almost like standard nv/ati placement