Cooler for HD Radeon 4870

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I have a HD Radeon 4870 graphics card and the stock cooler sounds so loud, i have searched for a few aftermarket coolers but most of the good ones are out of stock and the only thing i found is a EverCool VC-RHE Formula 2, i would like to know would this cooler fit on my card? and if anyone can recommend me a cooler that would fit my card and is in stock please do let me know

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BFG-9000
The main problem with this card is the GDDR5 memory cannot be clocked down at idle because changing the clock momentarily blanks the screen. So it has to run at full speed all of the time which explains the huge 60w idle power consumption of the card, and why it runs so hot and loud.

But it was the R9 Fury of its day (first with GDDR5 memory so bandwidth was way higher than the card could use) so you can use Radeon BIOS Editor to simply drop the memory clock from 900 to match the core clock (that is if you have a stock 4870 to drop it from 750-900 to 750-750) and accept the new fan profile built-into RBE. Once you flash the modified BIOS back to the card the fan speed should drop from ~34% to 24% which is still audible but a lot...
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maxalge

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its not worth wasting any money on it


buy a used gtx 750
 
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BFG-9000

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The main problem with this card is the GDDR5 memory cannot be clocked down at idle because changing the clock momentarily blanks the screen. So it has to run at full speed all of the time which explains the huge 60w idle power consumption of the card, and why it runs so hot and loud.

But it was the R9 Fury of its day (first with GDDR5 memory so bandwidth was way higher than the card could use) so you can use Radeon BIOS Editor to simply drop the memory clock from 900 to match the core clock (that is if you have a stock 4870 to drop it from 750-900 to 750-750) and accept the new fan profile built-into RBE. Once you flash the modified BIOS back to the card the fan speed should drop from ~34% to 24% which is still audible but a lot quieter, and performance should be about the same.

So you'll end up with a DX10 card with only one driver in Windows 10 and no control panel, that uses ~50w idle and 140w peak but is slower than the 55w 750 mentioned above.
 
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