ashiohsiao Posted March 10, 2011 Posted March 10, 2011 Hi everyone, I would like to do a quick review of my experience of using the Gelid Icy Vision Rev.2 on my Asus GTX 480, and the top-class customer service by the engineer, who designed the Icy Vision - Tony from Gelid! The temperature of GTX 480 with stock cooler is notoriously high. Before I changed the cooler, and when I over-clocked it to 800MHz Core and 2000MHz Memory using 1.050v (stock voltage), I had the below temperature: Kombuster (DX9 + 4xAA) - 97C Furmark (Xtreme Burning + Displacement Mapping + 4xAA) - 105C OCCT - 105C These temperature could very probably go even higher had I let the stress tests run longer, but I quited them for safety reason. Then I bought one Gelid Icy Vision Rev.2, and installed it with Artic Silver 5, and unfortunately it was probably faulty because I achieved the following temperatures: Kombuster (Same settings) - 83C Furmark (Same settings) - 93C OCCT - 93C After e-mailing Tony, and he told me to try out the GC-2 thermal compund that came with the Icy Vision and I also replaced the stock Icy Vision fans with two Gelid Wind 92mm fans. He also told me not to over-tighten the screws: Kombuster (Same settings) - 79C Furmark (Same settings) - 86C OCCT - 89C And now the absolute 5-star customer service - Tony sent me another replacement heatsink, with the 92mm fan mounts, and some of Gelid's top-class GC-Extreme thermal compound for free from Hong Kong to Taiwan. I installed it tonight and tested: Kombuster (Same settings) - 76C Furmark (Same settings) - 73C OCCT - 73C Even if I added a bit of voltage (@ 1.100v) and over-clocked it higher @ 825MHz, OCCT only reached 81C while Furmark reached 75C. For games, I only remember that Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (everything high with forced 4xAA + 4x Super-sampling Transparency) reached about 73C, but now it stays below 50C! It is apparent that Gelid has a very successful product, and has the best customer support that I have ever seen (aside from Apple - comes 2nd now)! Hope this review helps! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted March 10, 2011 Posted March 10, 2011 Nice. Definitely will look into those for any air-cooled systems I build. Would you be able to fit two GTX 480's in SLI with those on? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashiohsiao Posted March 10, 2011 Posted March 10, 2011 Nice. Definitely will look into those for any air-cooled systems I build. Would you be able to fit two GTX 480's in SLI with those on? According to Gelid, you can do SLI with Icy Vision. However, correct me if I'm wrong, I think this depends on the layout of your motherboard? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedCrazy Posted March 10, 2011 Posted March 10, 2011 Nice temps. I will keep them in mind. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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