120mm fans for Gelid Icy Vision Rev. 2

Oh look, yet another "spec me fans please" thread. But mine's slightly different to the others ...

I'm pretty pleased with the Icy Vision overall, but it's a little louder than I'd hoped, so I'm thinking of replacing the fans with 2 x 120mm. I've chcked my case, and there's plenty of space to fit them.

Is there anything specific to VGA cooling that I need to consider? If not, I'm going to slap on two more Gentle Typhoons, probably 1150/1450s (already using 1450s as case/rad fans).

Well you'd need to consider that they won't fit very well.

You'd need to slap them on a fan controller and hope that they'd speed up enough to cope with the additional heat under load.

There are alternatives.

I made this for another forum member to slow down the fans based on the graphics card's PWM output. Automatic control if you will. The black connector plugs into the graphics card fan output, the orange bit goes behind your motherboard, the white bit comes back to the Gelid Molex to fan connector.



The fan curve will look a bit like this.




More detail
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18421145

It might save you buying fans that won't fit and will just look bad.

Given my lack of elegance in ... anything, I'm not too fussed if it would look bad!

But your solution is actually more to my liking. I'd prefer to keep the stock fans on and be able to ramp them up when the GPU is under load. I assume you wouldn't mind building another? I'm away for the weekend but by Monday I'll have had time to look at it properly and give you a definitive answer.

Will 120mm fans actually fit on an Icy Vision? The 2x 92mm fans are side-by-side, so not sure how it would work?

Kind of interested if it is possible.

Any things possible with cable ties.

They'll stick out over the end and sides and a large part of the airflow will be wasted, and possibly disrupt surrounding airflow. It'll probably work but you'd still have the issue of needing to slow them down.

Jay@ I should be able to build you one in a few minutes. I actually have one already built but it'll need a change of connector and finishing up.

Tealc said:

Any things possible with cable ties.

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Pretty much this. They'd stick out at least an inch (well, 28mm exactly) over the side and at at either end, but the Gelid is two inches shorter than the 6950 board so it'd fit the board better than you would think. But as Tealc said, "spare" air would circulate wherever there were gaps.

@Tealc: That'd be mega, especially if it could be sorted before I head off tonight. I'll just make sure I've got trust setup right and then you can tell me how you'd prefer to be renumerated

If they stick out though, surely there is no point? The biggest flow is over the end of the blades. They are the biggest part and the part that is travelling fastest. They will miss the heatsink.

OK just drop me a trust and we can talk about it. As I said I have a board made up for my own testing that can be modified to run off a Gelid reasonably quickly, just needs the little 4 pin graphics connector wired up and the job's a good 'un.

Sorry to regurgitate such an old thread but I just wanna thank you lot for this idea. I have the Icy Vision too and I've gone through two sets of fans already. The first one packed up and I bought another set from some Chinese website referred to me by Gelid customer service and that one packed up earlier this week. I was Googling replacement fans when I came across this thread and got the idea to just wack on my own fans instead of buying another sh*tty "official" set.

Anyways, I did some research and learned that the 92mm Arctic F9s are quite impressive when it comes to static pressure and as an added bonus they were only like £2. Bought them, installed them with cable ties and the new temps blew me away.

I ran a Kombustor Furry Donut test (99% - 100% load) for 30 minutes and the temps stabilised at 61C (58C without the case cover), before they were going up to around 75C.

The fans are also silent as f*uk when idle. I can hardly hear my PC now, the ambient sound from outside is louder.

This is the best idea ever, it's a huge performance boost and it cost around half of what the official fans cost. Now that I have such a huge temperature ceiling to play with, I'm definitely OCing this old but loved card.

Here's a pic. BTW, the card is a 560TI 448 Cores (basically a 570 with 32 cores turned off), at stock speed.