Help With Fitting GELID ICY VISION To HD7950
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If you have spare time, write to kahboom from Overclock.net.
In my signature you will find a thread about modded BIOS which unlocks voltage, disables boost, gives you 50+ power and depending on your ASIC the BIOS picks the right voltage. With modded BIOS and higher clocks you should get smaller temps. Can't wait till I buy Gelid Icy Vision and try it out on my HIS
Could you tell us what temps you get when the Icy vision is on 100%?
Yeah, i have the fan plugged into one of the system fan sockets on the mobo. I actually noticed that my fan speed wasnt what MSI Afterburner was reporting as i wasnt using the fan connection on the gpu itself. So was just using the default PWM settings.
If you have spare time, write to kahboom from Overclock.net.
In my signature you will find a thread about modded BIOS which unlocks voltage, disables boost, gives you 50+ power and depending on your ASIC the BIOS picks the right voltage. With modded BIOS and higher clocks you should get smaller temps. Can't wait till I buy Gelid Icy Vision and try it out on my HIS
Could you tell us what temps you get when the Icy vision is on 100%?
I think someone said that my card wasnt compatible with the modded BIOS?
Just set the mobo fan connector to 100% and temps are approx 53c on 100% fan speed.
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You can write to kahboom in a weekend and give him your BIOS so he can have a look and unlock the voltage. But you have spend a bit of time testing, I spend 2 days testing to make sure the BIOS was 100% stable.
Is the cooler noisy at 100%? What sort of games/benchmarks did you see the 53c and also are using both cards in CF with gelid coolers? I know from experiance that the difference in temps can be massive depending on game/benchmark
I was using the Crysis 1 benchmark mod, with all setting maxed out.
The cooler was audible on 100%, but i would not call it loud and would be hard to hear over gaming audio. Im just testing the 1 card atm
If you have any suggestion s on benchmarks to try i can give them a go
The cooler was audible on 100%, but i would not call it loud and would be hard to hear over gaming audio. Im just testing the 1 card atm
If you have any suggestion s on benchmarks to try i can give them a go
Metro 2033 benchmark, Heavy heaven, 3d mark 11 basic.
If you could also run a software to read lowest temp and highest at 100%. cheers
Ok I'll try them out, have just fitted in my my 2nd card now for crossfire and done the crysis benchmark again, even with the gelid fan set at 100% the temps after 10 loops has jumped to 74c and I haven't even enabled crossfire yet 
. I know there is not much clearance between the 2 cards now but I wouldn't have thought it would have added this much heat to the card, when before without the 2nd card installed at 100% fan the max temps got to 53c??
. I know there is not much clearance between the 2 cards now but I wouldn't have thought it would have added this much heat to the card, when before without the 2nd card installed at 100% fan the max temps got to 53c??these PWM converts that you sell, do they allow me to connect the gelid fans up to the fan pin connector the GPU card itself and control the fan speed, or do you still need to connect it to a sys fan socket on the mobo?
Ok I'll try them out, have just fitted in my my 2nd card now for crossfire and done the crysis benchmark again, even with the gelid fan set at 100% the temps after 10 loops has jumped to 74c and I haven't even enabled crossfire yet
It's a CF and Crysis does make your GPU go hot, but the temps are fine when they are upto 80c anything over 85c is the time to worry. If you could ad an intake fan on side of your case it would help your GPU's. Did 53c go up to during Crysis? What sort of temps are you getting with the modded BIOS? If you are not stable with the BIOS he made you with such high clocks. Ask him to make you one with 1000/1375 (7970 clocks) and tell him how your current modded BIOS behaves.
What I do is put a 4 pin PWM PH type connector on one end to fit the graphics card, which feeds into the PWM converter circuit, then either on the circuit or off board I fit standard 3 pin headers. This method gives the added bonus of having the fans powered and controlled directly by the graphics card PWM signal and also feedbacks the fan tach signal back to the relevant card.
Here's one I made a few months ago for a Mushashi.
