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Re: [Cooling] Aftermarket Cooler for HD 4890? You must not have owned an early revision of the 4850-4870 cards.
Personally, I changed my cooler to a Zalman VF1000... primarily to match my CPU cooler, but also lowered my temps between 20-30 degrees celsius. |
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| said by Smoove910:You must not have owned an early revision of the 4850-4870 cards. Personally, I changed my cooler to a Zalman VF1000... primarily to match my CPU cooler, but also lowered my temps between 20-30 degrees celsius. im not questioning that they can perform better than stock, only that that performance doesnt justify the cost compared to what you can do for free or a few bucks. for the price of an aftermarket cooler you usually could have purchased a better card in the 1st place.
there are a few free ways he can achieve his goal of a quiet gfx card, so why spend money? also, i think people stress too much about temps, GPU especially. most of these powerful cards were designed to run comfortably up to 100 C. do we want to them to run hot? not necessarily, but will it hurt the card? generally not, depending on the card.
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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kudos:12 | Luckily, I'm in a position where spending even $100 on a cooling solution is within my means to achieve the desired result. I can be a picky bastard and little things like fan noise will drive me batty -- yet I won't spend the money for water cooling, Freud would have a field day with that one I bet.
Anyway, I'm going to give your method a shot. The CCC allows me to adjust the fan all the way down to 30%. At 50%, noise is tolerable and temps hover around 50C without under clocking either the core or memory.
I'm just worried about it when I game. When I game the card throws off so much heat it causes my CPU and case fans to kick up to full blast and the case itself is noticeably warm to the touch.
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| google ATI fan controlling, theres hundreds of guides on make linear or logarithmic fan speeds. they take a little time to set up but once you get the hang of it it is very easy. if you choose CCC profiles to achieve this method, the profiles can be saved so you wouldnt have to redo them after a format. |
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said by Matt:Anyway, I'm going to give your method a shot. The CCC allows me to adjust the fan all the way down to 30%. At 50%, noise is tolerable and temps hover around 50C without under clocking either the core or memory. Damn, you can tolerate 50%?
I couldn't stand the stock fans on my 4890, I grabbed the Thermalright T-RAD2 /w a Noctua NF-S12B. Temperatures for the core hover around a cool 51C (That's at the lowest RPM fan speed), it's also dead silent, can't hear it unless I put my ear inches away from the cooler. Going to fetch you $44 for the cooler, $14 for the fan.
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kudos:12 | said by Fireblade:said by Matt:Anyway, I'm going to give your method a shot. The CCC allows me to adjust the fan all the way down to 30%. At 50%, noise is tolerable and temps hover around 50C without under clocking either the core or memory. Damn, you can tolerate 50%? I couldn't stand the stock fans on my 4890, I grabbed the Thermalright T-RAD2 /w a Noctua NF-S12B. Temperatures for the core hover around a cool 51C (That's at the lowest RPM fan speed), it's also dead silent, can't hear it unless I put my ear inches away from the cooler. Going to fetch you $44 for the cooler, $14 for the fan. Hell ... no. Even at 50% I have to game with headphones on. Thanks for the tip, I'll pick those up as this has been keeping me from playing games. Guess that is what I get for not researching noise levels before buying a new card? 
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