HD4850 Reviews Feedback

[celebi]

I enjoyed W1zzard's reviews very much but there is one thing which got me interested: The different coolers. As far as I can tell from photos, the MSI card is the only one using that different cooler.

My questions are:
1.) Does the MSI card operate quieter in load because of a more powerful cooler?
2.) Did you check temperatures with the same fan speed, e.g. in idle?
3.) Did you measure the noise levels before or after disassembling the cards for taking photos? People have experienced temperatures dropping 20 Kelvin only by using a different thermal grease.

Thank you very much!

 

[Gam'ster]

The cards are identical Ati reference design as far as im aware, just different stickers also by replacing the TIM temps will surely drop or just by an aftermaket cooler once one is available, Or again wait for HIS to release their HD4850 as they usually feature the IceQ3 cooler

 

[wolf2009]

palit will release an awesome cooler as well .

 

[Gam'ster]

palit will release an awesome cooler as well .

My bad i totally forgot that palit made AMD/ATI cards

 

[tkpenalty]

Awesome card. End. Of. Story.

Palit will probably make the card a 2 + 6 phase GPU, with more compact components . Good for OC'ers. I'd expect them to use a quad heatpipe + fin cooler too.

The cards are identical Ati reference design as far as im aware, just different stickers also by replacing the TIM temps will surely drop or just by an aftermaket cooler once one is available, Or again wait for HIS to release their HD4850 as they usually feature the IceQ3 cooler

Ice Q III is barely better than the stock cooler, if it struggles to cool a HD3850 well... I don't really know if it would have to capacity to cool a card that runs as hot a 8800GT.

 

[From_Nowhere]

The 4850's currently released all appear to feature ATI's reference cooler. Some of them with stickers on them. With that said, they are not going to be running cool and quiet at the same time.

And the IceQ3 Rocks, keeps my 3850 under 60C full utilization even with it overclocked.

 

[W1zzard]

I enjoyed W1zzard's reviews very much but there is one thing which got me interested: The different coolers. As far as I can tell from photos, the MSI card is the only one using that different cooler.

My questions are:
1.) Does the MSI card operate quieter in load because of a more powerful cooler?
2.) Did you check temperatures with the same fan speed, e.g. in idle?
3.) Did you measure the noise levels before or after disassembling the cards for taking photos? People have experienced temperatures dropping 20 Kelvin only by using a different thermal grease.

Thank you very much!

1) there is a slight difference in the cooler, as i said in the review i dont know what exactly causes it to be a bit quieter
2) i put the card into the noise testing system and let them sit at the desktop until temps are stable.
3) i always measure before disassembling the card