Reference design on Gigabyte 4870

[tearsinrain]

Hey

Does anyone know if the Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB (GV-R487-1GH-B) - PCI-E card
has the ATI reference design? I wanted to replace the cooler to something quieter such as Thremalrights VGA coolers but they require that the card follows the ATI reference design.
Has anyone tried replace the stock cooler any this card?

Grateful for any insights

 

[error8]

Don't replace the stock cooler. The power regulators are very hard to cool down and you risk the life of your card.

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ight_key=y&keyword1=S1

 

[mpilchfamily]

Did you try looking the card up?
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Pro...ew.aspx?ProductID=2903

\As you can see it uses the reference cooler. Like error8 said its hard to cool the VRs and most after market coolers don't cool them.

 

[F1shF4t]

Also by tweaking the BIOS of the card you can get silent operation while maintain great cooling.
I've flashed both of my 4870 cards last week. Pretty much the best settings in the fan function is to have 28% fan speed at below 55 - 60C making it silent at idle. Then ramp up the fan at higher temps depending on how hot you want to allow the card to get under load.

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: Dark Cupcake
Also by tweaking the BIOS of the card you can get silent operation while maintain great cooling.
I've flashed both of my 4870 cards last week. Pretty much the best settings in the fan function is to have 28% fan speed at below 55 - 60C making it silent at idle. Then ramp up the fan at higher temps depending on how hot you want to allow the card to get under load.

Yeah, or if his is afraid of bios flashing, he can do all of these through Riva Tuner.