GPU cooler change?

[cyclonus10]

I have the Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce but am quite surprised how loud the fan is at anything over 53% fan speed.

I know the windforce cooler has a bad rep, reviews of the card and opinions of it pretty much said the same thing.

I have looked at some options (bar water cooling it) but most of the aftermarket coolers apply to reference design cards.

My old HIS 7950 was reference and that sounded like a jet taking off but i would say that it was quieter than the windforce cooler.

Anybody else on here switch from the windforce cooler and what did they use??

Sickener was this was a b-grade from OC but didn't have a picture so it didn't appear on the b-grade section (grabbed it straight away)

If i had waited one day i could have had the Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC for £10 less

 

[cyclonus10]

Thinking about using my old h50 corsair hydro cooler with this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-029-CS&groupid=701&catid=2330

My card is on the compatibility list too here http://www.corsair.com/en/blog/2014/october/hg10_installation_video

Would mean that the h50 rad would be attached inside the side of my case with a fan sucking the air into the rad.

So, assuming that the Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce is indeed reference dimensions, are there any better options than what i have suggested??

 

[varkanoid]

Just one thing that I tend to add when I see the HG10 discussed.

You need a blower style fan for it to work. Its meant to be only fitted in place of the blowe style cooler which the Windforce does not have I believe.

 

[varkanoid]

duplicate post when the forum had a paddy at midnight

 

[postmanfw]

Accelero are good coolers....using the 7950 version on my cards and they are very quiet at 100% and 20c+ cooler than stock coolers were.

 

[cyclonus10]

Just one thing that I tend to add when I see the HG10 discussed.

You need a blower style fan for it to work. Its meant to be only fitted in place of the blowe style cooler which the Windforce does not have I believe.

Yeah, just noticed that, requires a fan blower to be added to some cards.

And apparently you can't buy them either !!

 

[varkanoid]

Its very misleading on both the Corsair page (unless you watch the vid) and the item page at OCUK.
I was already to buy the Nvidia version but I think they have canned it for some reason.
If you have access to Members Market quite often you can pick one up, I got a reference cooler in the past for £20 from their.

To be honest I have two of the NZXT Kraken G10's and they are the same price, come with a fan and work brilliantly.
Bit fiddly to fix. I also purchased the 12 ram heatsink pack too for the RAM.