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Gigabyte Multi-Core Cooling 4850 1GB

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Looks nice. No fans and lots of heatsink acre-age so should be good for silent cooling. It's also well priced for a 1GB version, only a few quid more than a 512 HIS ICEQ.

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http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2900

Anyone own one? I'm seriously tempted as it should work well with the Lian Li PCI cooler extracting the hot air. :cool:
 
I own the exact card. The extra 512 cost what, £12? Fairly useful when rendering in Photoshop and Bryce too.

I have decent airflow in my case but temps were off the mark with this one, 105° under load iirc. I had a spare silent 80mm Akasa fan though which I actually blu-tacked straight onto the fins! :D Got load temps to 63°, I`ll get a better cooler for it one day (he says;)).

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I bought it because I had the Gigabyte 8600GT (OCd version with GDDR3) with the SilentPipe2 which served me very well indeed.

Oh, one thing I did notice that out the box it`s actually 640mhz and not 625mhz, though mine`s sitting happy at 720/1100 (Gareths modded bios) which on average is about an extra 11fps @1680*1050, app settings. Original bios easy at 700/1080.
 
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Hello there :)

That fan looks like its holding onto your graphics card for dear life :D, my christmas decorations fall down with bluetack so i wouldnt trust it tbh :p, looks like you need a carjack to keep it in place ;)

Thanks for the review and dam nice case to boot :)
 
2Thumbs said:
Looks nice. No fans and lots of heatsink acre-age so should be good for silent cooling. It's also well priced for a 1GB version, only a few quid more than a 512 HIS ICEQ.

vga_productimage_gv-r485mc-1gh_big.jpg


http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2900

Anyone own one? I'm seriously tempted as it should work well with the Lian Li PCI cooler extracting the hot air. :cool:
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Hmm, i was thinking of using the ocuk h20 watercooling kit with a gtx 280 to make my system as quiet as possible with good performance but with this cooler i may not need to w/c!

how quiet is your lian li case btw. the antec 900 was too loud to sleep in the same room as it at night, with 3 of the fans turned off and the rest on min voltage!!!
 
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how quiet is your lian li case btw. the antec 900 was too loud to sleep in the same room as it at night, with 3 of the fans turned off and the rest on min voltage!!!
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It's not silent, but it's very quiet. I've not replaced all fans and the heatsink with Noctua items yet so I'm holding out on a conclusion.

All the standard fans when used with the fan controller at 1 and 2 were near silent.

VRM cooling isn't really needed unless you want silly overclocks. They usually now have 2-3 phase power as well which helps with heat.
 
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auraindigo

can't you just cable tie your fan to the heatsink?...or will they melt?
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It hasn`t budged since I stuck it there! :D

@UltraDad, won`t do any harm even if it did drop off ... it really is just a temp solution, honesty ;)

@X-Morgan, not particularly hot. Warmish but nowt that scare`s me. The human pain threshold is about 50°C and I can touch them without problem. The VRMs can withstand temps far in excess of that, should be OK :)

Multi-core
 
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