heat concern

[SniperDude]

Hi, I have a rev2 powercolor 4850 1GB card, this card don't seem to have
any VRM heat sensors (they dont show in GPUZ or Everest)

The VRM sink is quite small on this card and am wondering if anyone knows
if the VRMS on this rev card still has heat problem or as Powercolor
done something about it in this rev ?

Wondering could the card benefit from a bigger VRM heatsink to be honest
that is if i can get one to fit it and if its needed.

I have noticed their does seem to be VRM chips on the back of the card too
directly in line with the ones on the front that do have a sink

I have managed to cool the GPU with a Accelero s1 rev and a 120mm fan
so the only concern is the VRM area



http://www.powercolor.com/eng/products_features.asp?ProductID=5707

 

[kylew]

Are you possibly getting VRM confused with RAM? I don't think I've ever saw a card that had VRMs on the back.

 

[SniperDude]

you have now the 4 vrm chips closest to the gray blocks thing's lol have the same chips on the opposite side of the card only them chips are not
heat sinked as they are on the front

 

[gurusan]

if you are using the stock powercolor VRM sink I wouldn't worry. If you are concerned, just aim a fan at the VRM sink.

 

[SniperDude]

if you are using the stock powercolor VRM sink I wouldn't worry. If you are concerned, just aim a fan at the VRM sink.

yeah I think I will just leave it alone as you said


looking at the sink that on it, its almost touching my S1 cooler anyway so even If I wanted to put a bigger sink on it couldn't

its in a p182 case so the intake fan is blowing directly on the card


thanks

 

[gurusan]

I would not worry then, sounds like it has plenty of cooling. The stock vrm cooling solutions on most of these non-reference cards are not bad and much better than on the referemce cooler IMO.

 

[SniperDude]

to be honest i was quite surprised i felt the heat-sink while the system was idle
and it was quite cool

so i put the GPU on full load for 15 mins it did heat up but it was still cooler
than the ram sinks i have on it


am happy with that, think I have been reading to many scare story's about vrm heat geting up to and over 90c.