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Arctic Cooling TwinTurbo Pro best for 5870?

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i'm looking to make this noisy 5870 quieter and cooler, so was wondering if it's worth buying one of these coolers or not? i can't find any reviews of it being tested on a 5870.

Stock cooler does a decent job but i hate the hairdryer type sound it makes, that along with random throttling sometimes when i boot up and the thing rattles :mad: which i then have to bang the case for it to go away lol

So is it worth buying one? i mean would it be much better?.

Makes me wonder why they replaced my original 5870, the fan noise is just as annoying as my first card.
 
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I've been looking into adding some cooling for my 5850, I might just try my usual which is take the stupid shroud off and ziptie a 120mm fan onto it as that usually increases cooling massively while decreasing the noise a lot, if you use a quiet 120mm fan that is. My 4870x2 dropped some 20c idle and closer to 30C load.

But I quite like the look of one of the new Prolimatech jobbies,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-007-PL&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=787


Its "supposed" to fit almost anything and come out with new fitting kits for new cards so it should only cost £5-10 to get a new mounting kit and ramsinks/vrm heatsinks which should really be out quickly after new cards are out. I hate buying a £30-40 cooler just for it to have no extra value when selling the card 2nd hand and having to wait ages then buy a new cooler for a new card.

The Arctic cooling one, afaik, needs a decent VRM cooler for the 5850/70's because they get hot without decent cooling. I've seen several people buy the Arctic cooling cooler aswell as the thermalright VRM cooler, but thats £50+ in the end and will likely not fit next gen cards.

I think one of the other brands will fit with the normal heatspreader on underneath to cool vrm's/memory.

Theres also, I think a new bigger Arctic cooling cooler coming with bigger fans/sink, though it might be the 5970 rather than for the 5870.

I think the one I linked to is the best bet for best cooling, though you still might want to get a bigger VRM cooler.
 
it doesn't come with the vrm heatsinks? why don't they just sell it with everything needed in the first place? , oh nvm i see that it does.

hmm i am not sure, the prolimatech cooler looks good. Might wait for that one
 
It does come with them but they are somewhat weak apparently, the VRM's get very hot while the sinks are rather tiny and with few fins, the one on that new cooler are slightly better by the looks of it, more fins on the heatsink, but really the whole normal base plate the shroud is attached to spread the heat of the VRM as the actual cooler doesn't touch that plate, so with the stock sink the VRM's have a pretty huge surface area with ok airflow over it.

I'm not sure it really matters to be honest, you can drive yourself mad looking at reviews, of which some suggested significantly worse VRM temps over stock with the one I linked and the Arctic cooling one, but I think that was also under Furmark or Kombustor, which are both very much not real life load situations and temps in games are normally quite a bit lower, especially on the VRM's.

http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_pages/prolimatech_mk_13,3.html

A couple other reviews mentioned increased VRM temps with certain fan setups, I really don't think it will be an issue, and realistically the lower temps on the stock sink will be at significantly higher fan speed and noise.
 
The thing is that those tests were done in a stability test that really does not at all replicate real world loads on the VRM, it put such a strange load on the 48XX cards it could make them crash but no games came close to doing the same, and as such temps don't get as high in games either so its probably not an issue at all.

I think later today I might whip the shroud off and attach a 120mm fan with zipties, as I said it worked well on most cards I've done it with, I actually left the normal fan on the 4870x2 largely as the fan connector was too tight and wouldn't come off. But with far better cooling it was always on its lowest setting even in games so wouldn't speed up at all.

As with you its not really the improved cooling I want, though would be welcome, its the noise when it gets under heavy load I'm mostly trying to get rid of.
 
drunkenmaster said:
The thing is that those tests were done in a stability test that really does not at all replicate real world loads on the VRM, it put such a strange load on the 48XX cards it could make them crash but no games came close to doing the same, and as such temps don't get as high in games either so its probably not an issue at all.

I think later today I might whip the shroud off and attach a 120mm fan with zipties, as I said it worked well on most cards I've done it with, I actually left the normal fan on the 4870x2 largely as the fan connector was too tight and wouldn't come off. But with far better cooling it was always on its lowest setting even in games so wouldn't speed up at all.

As with you its not really the improved cooling I want, though would be welcome, its the noise when it gets under heavy load I'm mostly trying to get rid of.
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Did you take the shroud off and try a 120mm fan strapped on (To the card :cool:) ?

Might try some ghotto-ised cooling myself, These fans are mince.
 
Thanks for the link drunkenmaster - an interesting read :)

Not happy at the vrm temps tho :(. You may well be right that such would probably not be a problem in real life but I would not want to take the risk.

Did use a Twin Turbo on a 4870 and found it excellent at cooling the gpu but poor at vrm cooling (100c rather than standard cooler 50/60c) - those temps never caused any problems except I worried a bit more than before :(:o

Have not seen or read either professional or user 'reviews' of the Twin Turbo with the 5870 but would def. be interested myself - nothing wrong with the standard cooler (certainly not as noisy as the standard 4870 cooler :() but .....
 
AgedIdiot said:
Thanks for the heads up Frame352 :) - could not find much but Press release ref 'new' Arctic Coolers' below

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/images/Accelero_Xtreme_5970_5870_press_release_Eng.pdf

Could be good but at 50 Euros:(.

Link to installation manual below

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/images/installation_Accelero_Xtreme_5870.pdf
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Sorry, I meant to link to the news on TechPowerUp. €50 would make it expensive alright - I'll have to weigh up the cost of a cheap reference board + Xtreme Cooler vs something like the Vapor-X. A lot will also depend on how they handle the VRM temps, although reading the manual, it looks like they have a decent VRM heatsink solution.

mishima said:
For anyone whos interested am reviewing the Twin Turbo Pro on a HD 5870 next week so will let you know what results I get!
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Definitely interested mate! Look forward to your feedback :)
 
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mishima said:
For anyone whos interested am reviewing the Twin Turbo Pro on a HD 5870 next week so will let you know what results I get!
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Looking forward to it also, if the stock cooler fan didnt have that damn annoying whine when it revs up just a tiny bit i'd keep it. So i am interested in the new cooler, but will it help any with the vrm temps?
 
drunkenmaster said:
I've been looking into adding some cooling for my 5850, I might just try my usual which is take the stupid shroud off and ziptie a 120mm fan onto it as that usually increases cooling massively while decreasing the noise a lot, if you use a quiet 120mm fan that is.
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Have you overclocked the 5850 at all? Mine was virtually silent (whilst I had it), even under load.
 
I can never understand why don't ATI charge £20 more and put a decent cooler on am sure people would pay the extra price for a good cooler.
 
Quick update guys. I've fitted the cooler last night and filmed. Just gotta edit the content and writeup the review. Should be ready by the weekend. Here is a teaser ;)

twinturbopro.jpg
 
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