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steve258 said:

It does fit:

Thing is I'm not sure whether the VRMs need heatsink or not.

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Thanks a lot mate

EDIT: Can you fit two 120mm fans on that cooler?? or would the second one hang off the edge ?

Steve you appear to have stuck the Accelero directly over the top of the cards fan is that right or did you have to remove the fan before you could attach the Accelero to it?

You remove the entire default cooling including the fan the fan is normally attached to the heatsink.

i can see manufactuars adding dual slot or there own coolers to these babies very soon...

Good to hear that the temps can be brought down a lot, should recieve my 4850 today and the temps of the card was my only worry.

no plans on overclocking it just yet tho

Not sure it's relevant in this thread or not, but my experiences with the Asus 4850:

I think at default (ootb) the fan must be almost non-existent. OOTB The idle temp was around 70-73, with load ramping it upto 85ish.

I installed the Asus software that it came with for controlling temps etc. As soon as it installed it pumped the fan to 100% (sounded like a hurricane) - the temp dropped fast to around 50c idle.

Then started changing all the settings for various fan levels. At 41% the fan is inaudible, holding idle at around 50ish. I changed the steps based on temps, so at 80c the fan hits around 65% - you can certainly hear it at that speed, but it does a good job keeping the temp down, with load temps avg 72 (max seen 80).

Now I've not played around with things like Rivatuner yet on this card, so I'm presuming you can get the fan speeds adjusted well with that. Likewise I'm not aware what utils are being distributed with the other brands/mfg's.

I'm gonna AS5 it at the weekend and see if they can come down some more.

Sorry for the boring post, but I've seen lots of posts about the temps on these cards ootb, thought I'd post my experience after a few days.

Cheers
Daz

Have you got anyway of sharing the software for those of us that didn't purchase an asus version.

Well I'm sure I could throw it up online somewhere (it's not on the Asus site yet that I can see), but I'm guessing like much of the Asus tools they're mfg dependant (via BIOS).

Will happily upload it somewhere tonight tho.

what is the program called that changes the fan speeds? Stick it up on rapidshare or something then post the link, that would be great if it works.

It doesn't work on vista 64...

gurusan said:

It doesn't work on vista 64...

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What doesn't? Been using Vista64 for a long time now.

Asus smartdoctor

Yeah think that's the name of it.
Well I don't know if it's a new release that came with this 4850, but it's working absolutely perfectly for me on Vista 64 Ultimate.

Yeah, if you look at the article at the top of the page, they talk about asus smart doctor, however it seems its a new release which isn't on the internet yet. Do you know how big the file is?

oh I missed your previous post where you said you got some fan controlling software with your card!

For quick filehosting go here: http://skydrive.live.com/

you can make an acct with your hotmail ID....very usefull storage/public file sharing thing.

Many would be very appreciative if you uploaded it

Cool. Heading home for an early lunch at 11.30ish so will get an acct and throw it up there.

Edit: Also just checked piccies on Asus site - it's definately SmartDoctor I'm using.
Should probably stress the only two features I've tried are the overclocking (running at 700, and a good oc on ddr3 too) and the fan speed adjustment. They seemed the important ones

Don't bother, a little bit more research shows that it will only work with an asus card, which for some people just means a bios flash, but i don't want to start doing that on a brand new card

Yup that's pretty much what I was expecting.
I'll throw it up there anyway and post a link later.

well then if you wouldnt mind dumping your bios with GPU-z and sticking it up there as well

Lol. I didn't know GPU-Z could do a BIOS dump (haven't looked at it in a while tho). Will happily do that if anyone wants it tho.