HD4850 + Thermaltake DuOrb (CL-G0102)

[chron]

So I'm gonna go ahead and get a couple hd4850's, but rather than have the surface of the sun as a gpu, I really want to keep them cool. I read that any cooler that fits the hd3870's will also fit the 4850 & 4870, so I landed on the CL-G0102 as a realistic aftermarket cooling option. They're like 35 bucks a peice at newegg right now, and product reviews state that people were successfull with installations onto 3870's.

So for $450 it would be two 4850's, and two Thermaltake DuOrbs. From another review, I read that the DuOrb brought an 8800gts down from (idle/load) 67/81 to 45/67. 67/81 sounds about the same as one of these 4850's...

So what do yall think? Sound practical? Combined with the stock VRM heatsink I think overclocking headroom will be decent (once dynamic voltage control is available.)

 

[calvary1980]

I posted a 4850 for $150 here.

- Christine

 

[erocker]

I found that the duo-orb would hit a capacitor on my 3850 and required a little grinding with a dremmel tool. Once that was taken care of, my 3850 now idles at 31c. I think I would recommend the accelero s1.

 

[KBD]

Duorb is a nice cooler, i own one of those, it didn't drop my temps dramatically (about 9c idle, 12-15C load), the card was running pretty cool as it is, but any temp drop is a good thing if you are gonna overclock. I also suggest you get these VGA RAM sinks instead of using the the aluminum ones that come with the cooler:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000EQ7Y72/?tag=tec06d-20

They are copper and cool your RAM better and they match the Duorb perfectly. Don't forget to throughly clean your RAM using Arctic Clean 1 and 2 or rubbing alcohol several times or they won't stck. Do the same for the GPU itself also.

 

[calvary1980]

you could also look into the Accelero S1 it's compatible with 38xx it's my favorite air cooler for the G92 I have personally seen 40 load (with the Turbo Module) not sure how it performs on ATI cards though.

PS, nevermind erocker already mentioned it.

- Christine

 

[chron]

I posted a 4850 for $150 here.

- Christine

Ok so a few things: When you send off the origional UPC, will newegg accept a "copied version" if anything goes wrong and you need to RMA? Also, is the rebate good for only one card or can you get 60 bucks back for 2 cards?

I found that the duo-orb would hit a capacitor on my 3850 and required a little grinding with a dremmel tool. Once that was taken care of, my 3850 now idles at 31c. I think I would recommend the accelero s1.

interesting. Could you look at some of the 4850 photos and tell me if you think that same issue would come up?
http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/14-121-253-06.jpg


I'm checkin out the S1 right now...

edit:

Ok so I checked out the S1 (quickly) and realized I already looked at it as an option. What I didnt like was how big it was. The DuOrb seems like it would take up a single slot (2 with the video card) while the S1 looks like it could take up 2 slots once you add the 9 dollar fans to it (3 slots with video card.) Is that the case?

 

[calvary1980]

no idea im canadian! never ordered from newegg, check the rebate it should say something like "2 rebates per house hold" or something similar.

- Christine

 

[chron]

no idea im canadian! never ordered from newegg, check the rebate it should say something like "2 rebates per house hold" or something similar.

- Christine

Oh I see it. Sorry! lol. At the top in big bold letters it says "Limited 2 per household."

SO I guess this is something to consider as well. Knowing my dumb luck I can totally see one of the cards poopin out on my right after i send off the physical upc code

 

[calvary1980]

here is another 4850 for $155. order one of each? only thing that should be different is the oem stickers.

- Christine

 

[chron]

I found that the duo-orb would hit a capacitor on my 3850 and required a little grinding with a dremmel tool. Once that was taken care of, my 3850 now idles at 31c. I think I would recommend the accelero s1.

Did some more "research" and people are reporting success with the 4850 + duOrb combo. I'm gettin excited here... That's not good because when I get excited I spend more :x

 

[erocker]

If you can find one, tomorrow I'm mounting one of these: Gigabyte V-Power, on my 4850. You also need very short ramsinks for the duo-orb. I have no ramsinks on my memoy on the 3850, and two nice copper sinks on the vrm's. Sorry if I'm all over the place on this post...

 

[zithe]

Knowing my dumb luck I can totally see one of the cards poopin out on my right after i send off the physical upc code

That's why I only send in the rebates for PSUs. (I know that sounds like it makes no sense at all)
You can't overclock a PSU.

Duorb is a nice cooler, i own one of those, it didn't drop my temps dramatically (about 9c idle, 12-15C load)

What the...? Either you have no case and the rig is sitting in front of the air conditioner or you're the god of cooling mods.

 

[DarkMatter]

That's why I only send in the rebates for PSUs. (I know that sounds like it makes no sense at all)
You can't overclock a PSU.



What the...? Either you have no case and the rig is sitting in front of the air conditioner or you're the god of cooling mods.

LOL I think he meant a drop of 9c idle and 12-15c load. Those are not the temperatures. I think.

 

[Duffman]

That VPower looks alot like the Zalman VF1000 but with a plastic shroud.

 

[KBD]

LOL I think he meant a drop of 9c idle and 12-15c load. Those are not the temperatures. I think.

That is correct. right now idle around 35C, load 43-45C.

@chron. Duorb does take up 2 slots (with card), and i think so does the Accelero S1, they look about the same size with the latter being a little longer. both are very nice coolers, you cant go wrong. I read of people using the Duorb in SLI/Xfrire.

 

[Polarman]

So I'm gonna go ahead and get a couple hd4850's, but rather than have the surface of the sun as a gpu, I really want to keep them cool. I read that any cooler that fits the hd3870's will also fit the 4850 & 4870, so I landed on the CL-G0102 as a realistic aftermarket cooling option. They're like 35 bucks a peice at newegg right now, and product reviews state that people were successfull with installations onto 3870's.

I would probably do the exact same thing.

 

[ViciousXUSMC]

Im looking at the duorb myself, I have a pair of 4850's in crossfire in the p182 case and they get hot, locking the fans at 60% right now (going to do a bios mod later so it can scale probably) thing is that the stock cooler is just not the greatest and its made worse by the fact that there is almost no room under the 2nd card.

So the duorb is one of the few coolers that looks single slot and will not require a fan on it and that 2nd fan should keep the ram and voltage regulators nice and cool.

Here is a pic of my setup, is a duorb going to fit on that 2nd card? (same size as the stock cooler) or is it still too big?





The cooler is like 40$ but since I was about to order 2 13$ fans to help cool these down, I would think that these would eliminate the need for the fans, and thus make the net cost like 30$ each.

 

[remmeh]

Ok so a few things: When you send off the origional UPC, will newegg accept a "copied version" if anything goes wrong and you need to RMA?

Newegg will not accept any RMAs after cutting out the original UPC from the product packaging. Sorry. )=

You can still RMA to the original manufacturer...