Gelid Rev. 2 Icy Vision BURNED my R9 290, does it still work?

@l1ghtm4st3r - Thanks for the reply. It definitely freaked me out. An angry email was sent to Gelid, but I still can't believe that it happened. It has scared me from doing anything to my other 290!

Anyways, it is definitely just the fan connector. I reverted everything back to stock and tried it, but the fan was a no-go. I took off the shroud off and connected the stock fan cable to the cable provided by Gelid (as it is the only one I have of its type) and connected it to a 4-pin molex.

The fan now works, and the 290 boots up! However, now there seems to be no fan regulation, so the fan runs at 100%. I don't mind it, but my wife does... Do you know of anyway to regulate the fan? I have tried Afterburner, but it thinks its at 20%...

Yeah, it was a miracle that it worked! I ran some benches and it ran just fine. A bit higher, but likely because the fan is at 100%!

I will be sure to pick one of those up, they seem pretty cheap. It does look like I'll need a 3-pin to 4-pin adapter though.

Thanks for the support, glad someone was here to help me.

I just wanted to add a quick update here: I did end up contacting Gelid, but was getting toyed around with lower-level support.Finally got to communicate with the owner, and he told me to bring it in to one of his friends in my area. I did and they found the same findings in terms of a dead fan connector.

The owner then offered a new R9 290 and a new cooler. I believe he was trying to find any way to cut costs, so he asked if I could wait until his friend (the same one that checked out the card and cooler) could get it - in another country. I told him yes, but only on the condition that I get both products and they have receipts accompanying them. His friend eventually went and picked up what was sent. I got only a HIS R9 290, and no receipt. I contacted the owner again and he sent me a copy of the receipt without the price, which HIS' website states is not acceptable for warranty purposes (their customer support says otherwise...). I made him send me a new copy of the receipt with the full amount, which was lower than what I had originally spent - but considering it was a better card, no complaints there. I also complained about not having the cooler so I could setup everything. He then told me they had no stock and I would have to wait. When the time finally came around to having stock, they wanted me to pay for the shipping and customs, to which I scoffed at and explained that I had agreed to having them all sent at once, not to paying a bunch more for a single item that would surely be cheaper to buy locally. He then agreed to send it to his friend and pay for the items.

Mind you, this is a quicker version of what happened, all this correspondence took well over two months. I was livid for the most part as agreements were continually ignored. I still used my time and gas to pick up the second item (even though the first item was sent by a courier).

The most interesting thing about all this was that I received an email a couple weeks after I finally had everything in my possession. It was the owner stating that they had concluded their testing and that it was in fact the card's fault and not their product. He added a bit about how they would not replace the Gelid cooler they had sent if anything happened. I sent back a later asking for the evidence and results of the tests as I had tested the card before I had put their cooler on and not had one hiccup in any benchmark. Essentially, if someone tells me something without providing proof, I'm not just going to rely on their word. I also noted that he would need to talk to his legal team before trying to tell me that their new product had no warranty with it, as I have never heard of a warranty where if you get the first product and it craps out, then the second one does too, you're screwed. I never heard back...

All in all, I got everything I deserved, if not a bit more. Then again, this did waste a lot of my time. His friend who resides locally was also fairly accommodating, but seemed to talk a big game with little follow-through. So, the support was good, but it could have been much better. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND BUYING THIS PRODUCT. While the product itself may actually be good, and I just got a random dud, support is a big deal to me. In the end I got what I should have, yet it took far too long on their part. I should not have to send tens of emails and be lied to in order to get back what I started out with.

If you read the posts there was no fix, it was just a brand new replacement (not even of the same brand).