Help With Fitting GELID ICY VISION To HD7950

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Got a GELID Rev. 2 ICY VISION to fit to my MSI 7950 card, upon removing the fan and heatsink of the GPU i noticed the angled orientation of the dye and the raised area of the heatsink.....

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Will the GELID heatsink sit on the 7950 dye correctly because of this, or so i consider trying to remove the metal plate surrounding the dye, so the GELID might make contact with the 7950 correctly?
 
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Cheers help a bit, bit its the whole dye being at an angle with my card and the metal frame surrounding it, as i think that sits every slightly higher than the dye so might not make contact with the heatsink of the cooler
 
lettuce said:
Cheers help a bit, bit its the whole dye being at an angle with my card and the metal frame surrounding it, as i think that sits every slightly higher than the dye so might not make contact with the heatsink of the cooler
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Try with out the paste to just see if it will.
I found a better video for AMD Click

When I was fitting my Accelero Twin turbo II on my older geforce, I checked if it touches the core.
 
Hmm somethings seems to be wrong. GELID cooler fitted and card placed back into the PC. MSI Afterburner is reporting a temp of 43c and fan speed of 30%, no matter what i change the fan speed to the GPU temp doesnt appear to drop, i have tired changing the fans to 100% and the temps dont drop and i can hear any audible difference between 30% and 100% fan speed. I just ran the Crysis benchmark and i saw temps of 100c just before the PC turned itself off!! Also it sounds like the PSU fan is much louder than it usually is!!

Any ideas?

EDIT: I have just tried the MSI Kombustor GPU Burn in test in a window and as soon as i started it the temps went up to near 100c in the space of 2 seconds!!!

EDIT2: Have just placed back in my other MSI card (have 2 for crossfire) which still has the stock cooler fitter, and the PSU fan seems to be quiet again....i guess it could be the GELID fans that were making in the noise, but when i put my ear to the PSU it defo sounded like it was that fan that was making the noise
 
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I'm on holiday and don't really have access to a PC. But message that guy from Overclock.net he migh help. Are you sure, you mounted the cooler correctly? Did you plug the cooler to the motherboard? The cooler is not pwm so you have to set it up in BIOS, I would recommend plugin it in sys fan. This is strange as it looks llike the cooler wasn't touching the core or you forgot to put paste on it.
 
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Nah i defo but paste on. That was my thinking that the cooler isnt connecting with the core, but if that was the case then the temps wouldnt stay around 40c would they!?

I connected the cooler fans to the connection on the actual card itself, as its a smaller 4 pin plug, should it be connecting it to a mobo fan connector instead then?

I guess i could take the cooler off the card and see if there any paste on the heatsink
 
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Correct me if I'm wrong but the Gelid doesn't support native fan control. As far as I recall the kit comes with a cable to plug the fans in to the GPU but the fans themselves are 3 pin DC fans while GPUs generally are meant for 4 pin PWM fans and don't regulate the 12v DC to slow fans down. It's probably why I've sold a few PWM converters for Gelids.

As for the temps I would say you haven't fitted it properly. Pop it off and check that your thermal paste has been squished onto the die. You can have idle temps of 40 degrees quite easily and not be making a very good contact. Graphics cards these days only consume a few watts at idle and this will be shared out amongst the RAM and GPU. Even a minimal contact would be ok for it to still dissipate the heat into the heatsink but once you crank up the clock speed and it draws 150W+ that minimal contact is not going to cut it and heat builds up in the core.

You should be very careful fitting 0.5mm of copper to the die as if the heatsink contact plate is just touching but not providing a good contact you may find that an additonal 0.5mm may crack the die on the edge or something.
 
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Hmmmm, not good.....

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And i screwed the heatsink on fairly tight but didnt want to over tighten it, i was using a regular size screw driver and 'finger' tightened it up

Guess that would explain the 40c idle temp if the cards are low volt....just hope i didnt damage anything when it shot up to 100c and turned the PC off???
 
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I think you might have the wrong Gelid Icy Vision.

Looking at their website you have the Rev 2 Icy Vision with the flat copper base and then the...

ICY VISION-A (GC-VGA02-02)

Compatible to:*
AMD™: HD5850, HD5870, HD6850, HD6870, HD6950, HD6970, HD7850, HD7870, HD7950, HD7970

Which comes with a diamond shaped raised area as you showed in Post #1.

The one you showed in Post #13 looks different, so maybe that shim would be the right way to go. Certainly non ideal as you have two heat insulating layers for the heat to cross.
 
Yeah i got it from ebay seller (who is also a well know PC supplier) and its listed as the ATi/AMD version, so there are listing it wrongly. I have sent them a message asking if they have the correct AMD version in stock
 
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Looks like you got this model

http://www.gelidsolutions.com/products/index.php?lid=1&cid=17&id=52&tab=1

Rev. 2 ICY VISION (GC-VGA02-01)

Compatible to:*
AMD™: HD4850, HD4870, HD4890, HD5830, HD5850, HD5870, HD6850, HD6870, HD6950*, HD6970*, HD7850 and 7870
Nvidia™: 9800GT, 9800GTX, GTS250, GTX260, 275, 280, 285, GTS450, GTX 460, GTX465, GTX470, GTX480, GTX550TI, GTX560TI, GTX570, GTX580, Quadro 4000, GTX680, GTX Titan and GTX 780


and you needed this model

http://www.gelidsolutions.com/products/index.php?lid=1&cid=17&id=73

Compatible to:*
AMD™: HD5850, HD5870, HD6850, HD6870, HD6950, HD6970, HD7850, HD7870, HD7950, HD7970
 
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IC3 said:
Accelero would be the best option, but if you want to save some cash buy Gelid Icy Vision A :cool:
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Yep, the version compatible with 79xx card is Gelid Icy Vision-A cooler.
 
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Got finally got the correct cooler today.

Ok, finally got the correct Gelid cooler for my HD7950. Back last week i ran the Crysis Benchmark program and after 12 loop at max settings, my card was:

Temp 91c
Usage 99%
Volts 1.169
Fan 80%

Have now fitted the Gelid cooler and just done the same test as above. After 12 Loops on the Crysis Benchmark i got the following

Temp 64c
Usage 99%
Volts 1.169
Fan 47%

That is just incredible!!!, a drop of almost 30c and the fan isnt even at 50% speed!!!, idle temps are 33c!!!. Very happy with the performance!!
 
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