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Artic Cooling 5970 cooler available

FredBasset

FredBasset

FredBasset

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Just had an e-mail from Artic Cooling to say this is now available, hopefully we will see some reviews soon.

They sent me a link to buy but for obvious reasons not posted here.

Fred
 
well I have just ordered one, these are going to be used on the saphire toxic edition and I have just been reading a review of that coolit ALC omni on a gtx 480 (you will see what i am getting at in a mo) against a number of GPUs and one was a saphire with one of these on and at full load it way outperformed the water cooler on the 480 and the standard ref cooler on a HIS 5970, oh and the saphire was clocked at 900 awesomeness!

should be here next week so I shall keep you posted
 
mintcake said:
well I have just ordered one, these are going to be used on the saphire toxic edition and I have just been reading a review of that coolit ALC omni on a gtx 480 (you will see what i am getting at in a mo) against a number of GPUs and one was a saphire with one of these on and at full load it way outperformed the water cooler on the 480 and the standard ref cooler on a HIS 5970, oh and the saphire was clocked at 900 awesomeness!

should be here next week so I shall keep you posted
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Well If I can find out if this does not use up more than the 2 pci-e slot area's then I will get one myself
 
Rancid it says crossfire compatible so that would indicate its dual slot :) thats on the 5870 and the 5970 version :)
 
Yup just read that :)

Just been searching to buy one but only place I found was actually from artic cooling themselves so going to wait until OCUK have them in stock
 
My intentions were to watercool my system to solve my vga heat problems but might as well give this a test. If it turns out to be a 3 slot ( even though the actual website states its ok crossfire ) then ill just stick it on an aution site and continue down road with watercooling :)
 
rancid_elf said:
My intentions were to watercool my system to solve my vga heat problems but might as well give this a test. If it turns out to be a 3 slot ( even though the actual website states its ok crossfire ) then ill just stick it on an aution site and continue down road with watercooling :)
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'OK for Crossfire' usually refers to the xfire bridge not being blocked.
 
Well I am going to do some tests with it and see what results I get.

At the moment I am running a 5970 in slot 1 and a 5870 in slot 3. This is because of heat. Now from my tests I have found that my 5870 in slot 3 running @ x8 gives about 98-99% performance what it would from running @ x16 in slot 2. I was going to go for water cooling so I could run 5870 in slot 2 @ x16 but to be honest if this cooler is as good as it says then I think I might be better off using this cooler on my 5970 and OC 5970 to 5870 speeds and get the equivalent cooler for the 5870. I should still get pretty much top speed and have less noise.. less heat and no hassle of water cooling..

The only other downside is I will have to swap out my x-fi extreme which is pci-e for my x-fi fatality which will go in pci.. But to be honest no big loss there as the 2 cards and pretty much similar.
 
So did anyone get one of these, mine arrived today but have been put off by the reports of these damaging 3 cards over at Hard Forum.

Anyone fitted one without problems?

Regards
Fred
 
Got mine yesterday and installed last night, and it seems to be fine and way cooler. Idles between 26 and 30 and on full load it never went above 58 and i have it clocked to 900 mhz (used the msi afterburner and kombuster app to test) so far no problems and at 100% fan it is silent not like the original dyson ha.

what problems have people been getting?
you have to make sure you clean off all the compoents properly I used thermal compound removal and surface prep to be sure with a lint free cloth.
only took about 20 mins to install.

It does take up 3 slots mind so it may be a struggle for some people on certain boards but i highly recommend this cooler if you are just sticking with the one card.
just ensure you have good airflow around the card so the warm air is being pulled/pushed out somehow.
 
Mine should be arriving any day now but after reading those posts on hardforum I am going to hold off installing it. 3 People all with dead dvi sockets after installing. There is clearly a short somewhere so until it is identified and I know where that short is I will wait.
 
I just found the forum you mentioned, well that is a strange problem indeed but it seems to me like maybe these people may have installed it incorrectly and possibly affected some of the other components.

the instructions are very clear and you have to make sure you follow them exactly and you wont go wrong.
 
I'm sure I read a review of Arctics 5870 cooler in a VGA Cooler round-Up in Custom PC and they said the 5870 cooler was the worst card of the lot and caused dangerous level of over-heating. The 5970 cooler has the same design as the 5870 cooler so can't be that much different.
 
they may have not cleaned of the old thermal compound off some of the components and this could have caused the trouble.

I think 3 people with a problem is just coincidence really, If it was say 20 then maybe i would be worried.

also a couple say they here the chime when they plug in a screen to the dodgy DVI port so it could be they are missing setting something right.

when something like this happens you tend to get a lot of panic mongers stirring the pot and making a lot of pointless noise.

its a valid point when someone says sapphire are happily adding it to their toxics with 4 gb and running at 900/ 1200 happily

I think that speaks volumes to me.

just take you time installing and constantly check no dust or lint (in my case the odd bloody cate hair) gets on the pcb and ensure the back plate too has its thermal pads on the ram ok.
 
YOu are probably right it might just be a case of left over thermal paste or it could be something not lined up properly and causing teh short.

I will however point out that 3 people in my view is a lot. If you take how many people actually have this cooler on a 5970 who actually read that hardforum thread. Now from what I remember reading the thread there I think there was only actually 1 post in which someone stated they had the cooler working and 3 people who stated thier dvi sockets failed.

In total that is 4 voices. 1 voice works 3 voices dvi sockets get naffed. I think that is more than conincidence for my liking to be honest.

Personally for me this still spells out the shorting out. I would guess at there is something right on the edge.. Get the cooler just a fraction out of line and you get the contact which is shorting the dvi socket. I might be wrong but having 3 people all with dvi problems the chances of them all resulting from left over thermal paste in the same place to cause the same problem they are all having is just too much of a million to one short.
 
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