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XFX Double D Radeon HD 7970 BE cooling advice

yesyesloud

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Being used to that Ghost Thermal Technology thing by XFX, I can't seem to find Gelid noisy at all, even at 100% as it seems. Mine is rev A though.

I guess I'll be able to set fan speed if I plug the power cable into the motherboard, I'm not getting in the mood for more hard mods for a long while...


PS: Water cooling would be kind of useless in my case. My GPU won't overclock higher than 1150MHz (core) under normal temps (<70C) without freezing games after a few seconds. Icy is perfect for me.

Edit: I managed to make it stable @ 1180/1575. Temps always < 64C.
 
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yesyesloud said:
Being used to that Ghost Thermal Technology thing by XFX, I can't seem to find Gelid noisy at all, even at 100% as it seems. Mine is rev A though.

I guess I'll be able to set fan speed if I plug the power cable into the motherboard, I'm not getting in the mood for more hard mods for a long while...


PS: Water cooling would be kind of useless in my case. My GPU won't overclock higher than 1150MHz (core) under normal temps (<70C) without freezing games after a few seconds. Icy is perfect for me.
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Well, to each their own.
 
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@coozie78, thanks for the tip once again. I'm glad I took some time before I made my mind as to which set I should get.
 
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erocker said:
The fans on the Icy Vision run where they are supposed to run. No need to adjust them.
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Neat... I'll go with that for now. I'm still amazed about how good temperatures got: <68C @ the max overclocking this card can handle. I'm talking about hours of Furmark and Crysis 3 (1080p, very high settings, fxaa).

On "lighter" gaming (hitman absolution, max payne 3, saints row IV, all maxed out also), temperatures will keep around 56C.

As my card performance doesn't lower at all until core temperature reaches 96C, I'm really happy with current results.
 
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The fans will run at 100% if you power them through a unregulated header or connector. They are not PWM controllable, but they do have a tacho signal so should give accurate readings if run off a motherboard header.
If you plug them into the motherboard you can control the speed through BIOS although the control can be coarse, my MB only allows 25, 50, 75 and 100 percent.
You can run then through a separate controller unit, I'm using a Zalman FanMate , which is in turn, powered from a motherboard header, an arrangement that gives (possibly) accurate speed readings from BIOS and Speedfan.
Or you could get a 5.25" drive bay multi fan controller giving you a 'one stop' control of the main ventilation system, a neat solution but not as cheap as the FanMate. ;)
 
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