BigIan88
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AMD/ATI are red? and im swapping coolers?....never mind
I thought seeing as I was doing this I might aswell make a mini log to show you guys what the cooler looks like and how it performs.
So I thought the Gelid Icy Vision v2 cooler on wednesday and I picked it up from the post office this morning and couldnt resist getting stuck in with it as ive never swapped GPU coolers before.
A word of advice for anyone interested in this cooler, dont follow the instructions word for word as they are actually very little help and I was often left thiking "WTF are you on about?"
All boxed up
Unboxed with the bazillion accessories and heat syncs you get with it
Im ready for my close up...
Ironically, it didnt come from FINland
Kinda looks like the Star Trek spaceship thing on this pic
Naked PCB and detatched reference cooler
Squeaky clean GPU core and RAM
RAM heatsyncs attached
Shiny copper contact plate, fairly good machine polish
VRM syncs installed and MX3 on the core as I couldnt find the IC Diamond or Noctua stuff anywhere
The bad boy is nearly ready for its debut
Awesome colour fans!
Cooling in action
Fast shutter speed makes it look like its idle, but its doing its job
Results you say?
First of all its substancially quiter than the reference cooler, not quite quiet but certainly a huge improvement over the stock cooler.
Performance wise I dont think I could have chosen a better day to do it, my room is humid and its really warm outside so the temps are working in "worst case scenario" conditions.
After 10 mins of gameplay on Crysis 2 on extreme settings
Not the most accurate results as usually after an hours "sesh" it can reach as high as 82C and the noise is very much noticeable.
The Gelid cooler is a little cooler at idle but is certainly alot cooler under the same conditions as the reference cooler and remains quiet due to the fans not being connected via 4pin PWM but rather 3pin PWM so they fans are always on full.
So far so good! I`ll be benching, overclocking and temp testing over the next few days and I`ll update the thread accordingly with results
AMD/ATI are red? and im swapping coolers?....never mind
I thought seeing as I was doing this I might aswell make a mini log to show you guys what the cooler looks like and how it performs.
So I thought the Gelid Icy Vision v2 cooler on wednesday and I picked it up from the post office this morning and couldnt resist getting stuck in with it as ive never swapped GPU coolers before.
A word of advice for anyone interested in this cooler, dont follow the instructions word for word as they are actually very little help and I was often left thiking "WTF are you on about?"
All boxed up
Unboxed with the bazillion accessories and heat syncs you get with it
Im ready for my close up...
Ironically, it didnt come from FINland
Kinda looks like the Star Trek spaceship thing on this pic
Naked PCB and detatched reference cooler
Squeaky clean GPU core and RAM
RAM heatsyncs attached
Shiny copper contact plate, fairly good machine polish
VRM syncs installed and MX3 on the core as I couldnt find the IC Diamond or Noctua stuff anywhere
The bad boy is nearly ready for its debut
Awesome colour fans!
Cooling in action
Fast shutter speed makes it look like its idle, but its doing its job
Results you say?
First of all its substancially quiter than the reference cooler, not quite quiet but certainly a huge improvement over the stock cooler.
Performance wise I dont think I could have chosen a better day to do it, my room is humid and its really warm outside so the temps are working in "worst case scenario" conditions.
After 10 mins of gameplay on Crysis 2 on extreme settings
Not the most accurate results as usually after an hours "sesh" it can reach as high as 82C and the noise is very much noticeable.
The Gelid cooler is a little cooler at idle but is certainly alot cooler under the same conditions as the reference cooler and remains quiet due to the fans not being connected via 4pin PWM but rather 3pin PWM so they fans are always on full.
So far so good! I`ll be benching, overclocking and temp testing over the next few days and I`ll update the thread accordingly with results
