4890 aftermarket cooling

[ronnn]

Anyone here using alternative air cooling for their 4890 that is worth recommending?

 

[haffey]

Since the 4870 and 4890 are practically the same PCB hole-wise (afaik), I'll throw in my vote for the T-Rad2. It's incredibly effective and fairly slim when you look at others like the Accelero TT and the HR-03GT. I slapped two 120mm Scythe fans on there with a little help from a ghetto fan clip - a bent paper clip. It's really supposed to take one 120mm fan or two 92mm fans. Just make sure you watch the VRM cooling. I would buy heatsinks for them; enough heatsinks are included for the vRAM.

 

[videogames101]

I feel like the stock cooler is great.

Stock Cooler

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: videogames101
I feel like the stock cooler is great.

Stock Cooler

100% fan!!! Shoot even 30% is too loud for me. 🙂
Watercooling all the way!!

OP, whichever cooler you use, make sure the VRMs are cooled properly...that is a disadvantage to using any of the aftermarket coolers

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: thilan29

Originally posted by: videogames101
I feel like the stock cooler is great.

Stock Cooler

100% fan!!! Shoot even 30% is too loud for me. 🙂
Watercooling all the way!!

OP, whichever cooler you use, make sure the VRMs are cooled properly...that is a disadvantage to using any of the aftermarket coolers

Headphones FTW!

 

[ronnn]

right now at ncix they are giving the fans with t-rad2. Off to research how quiet they are.

thilan29, I am tempted to go water cooling - as am getting a case that has the holes, but am worried that I will end up with a noisy pump or something.

 

[thilanliyan]

Most but the most powerful pumps are quiet. I'm using a Swiftech MCP355 (which is actually fairly powerful) and it is very quiet...much quieter than the 4870 fan anyway.

 

[error8]

Zalman is about to release a new VRM cooler for both 4870 and 4890 cards, which will probably remove the overheating power circuit issues, when using an aftermarket air cooler for these two cards. The only condition now is for this cooler to fit under the GPU heatsink, since it looks to be rather tall.

Thermalright is also releasing such a cooler to be compatible with their T-rad. I wouldn't use anything but the stock cooler, on a 4890 without one of these heatsinks. 😉

 

[Trevelyan]

Here is an article I found that keeps the stock Heatsink (for ram and VRM) but then installs an aftermarket cooler on a 4890:

http://www.hardmac.com/articles/265/page1

This is probably what I'm going to do....