Best cooler with fan for 4870?

[MN12BIRD]

Yeah so I picked up a 4870 the other day but the thing is WAY too loud. Its ridiculously loud I don't know how Palit could even consider this acceptable. I can hear the damn thing from 3 rooms away! It has 2 fans on the card and for whatever sense this makes only 1 of the 2 fans is on the fan controller. So even if you turn the fan speed down to %20 the one fan still goes full bore! I considered unhooking the constant fan and just running the 1 variable fan but fear the heatsink design may have been built with two fans in mind and I don't want to overheat the card. The consistent fan is positioned over the voltage regulators also. I think one central fan would be better than just running one off to one side. I must say from what I've heard about 4870's this one does run cool so I'll give it that.

So basically I don't need something that's going to cool better just quieter because this one already does a great job with the cooling. I'm not overclocking I just want something that is acceptable. Put into perspective this card is 4 times louder than my reference 9600GT witch was nearly silent actually.

Thanks,

Jake

 

[Mussels]

you could do what i did, accelero S1 + zip tie a fan over the VRM.

 

[Athlon2K15]

maybe you could wire the second constant fan into the first one so there both controlled by the same port

 

[MN12BIRD]

Cool my card already has a separate heatsink screwed down to the VRM's so I won't bother changing it unless the included one is better. Hrm. Realistically do you think I could use the S1 passively with only moderate airflow in the case (Lancool K7)?

Alternatively is there anything you can recommend that comes with a fan already mounted that would be in the same ballpark?

 

[95Viper]

A/C Accelero TWIN TURBO:http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_&mID=101
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=FAN-TURBO&c=fr&pid=9f3e817c632d2f25d66c614cfaf59ef78e99d7e2800c830c5e840cc8ce022dd9

Polarman's thread on it:http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=70379

EDIT: Overclockersclub review:http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/twin_turbo/5.htm

 

[Mussels]

Cool my card already has a separate heatsink screwed down to the VRM's so I won't bother changing it unless the included one is better. Hrm. Realistically do you think I could use the S1 passively with only moderate airflow in the case (Lancool K7)?

Alternatively is there anything you can recommend that comes with a fan already mounted that would be in the same ballpark?

the GPU is fine passive - the VRM's are not. Something like a 70mm fan from an old stock AMD heatsink works fine, its thin and it has enough power at 7V to cool the VRMs silently.

 

[MN12BIRD]

Thanks guys I think I'll get the AC Accelero TT they do sound quite good for the price. Surprising to see the prices compared to others actually.