Better cooling for 4850/4870?

Some reviews are reporting 70-80+ C in testing, which quite frankly, scares the *$*@ out of me.

Any thoughts on having better case cooling, or waiting for a company to just put a better than stock cooler on a card to sell retail?

Heat issues will be fixed with a update to raise fan speed or a utility to control fans is updated for these cards, the cooling on it is fine.

Thanks for the replies.

I cannot believe how appealing these cards are looking, and I am well past due with my AGP 6600GT and much older P4 2.6C

Yeah, I built my current 'gaming rig' in December 2003, and only changed the video card after the fact.

Needless to say, I am probably going to poop my pants with joy if I do something like a Q9450 and a 4870 or 9800

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for [...] eview.html

there's a review, and the cooling is at the end... I apologize if someone already posted.

Wow, that Thermalright is a monster. I assume the non-GPU parts are still getting adequate cooling?

Well, thats it. Maybe they could speed the fans up for lower temps...but I don't want the noise. I have the nice all-copper Zalman on my 6600GT. Quiet, cool, and look awesome.

4870 does not suffer from a poor cooler... It has the second slot cooler that at the most needs a BIOS update to run the fan faster. On my Visiontek 4850 I flashed to an Asus and use their software utilities to turn the fan from 14% to 50%. Blends right in with my Antec 900 fans on medium.

my gpsu (2 4850 in crossfire are runing at 105 C with stock on 100% fan speeds if its hot in my room.
my case is not poorly cooled but the GPUs are kinda closed in since i use some noise reduction kits.

Apart from waht i "want" beeing aquagratix 4850 waterblock fullcover, id go with DuOrb (all copper version), or some thermalright (but those hardly will work in corssfire if u use most of your PCI slots).

This one looks promising
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] -AK&tool=3

I have a Diamond 4870 with their factory heatpipe heatsink.....and I set in CCC the fan to 60 percent and get 53 deg C and it doesn't hit over 63 in games.....Granted its not the stock ati fan either

http://www.diamondmm.com/4870PE5512DT.php


You don't have a fan like this

I have a gigabyte 4850 and it idles at around 68 C when i set the fan speed to 55%...but when I game, the temp goes up to about 103 C, which really worries me...would a pci slot cooler underneath the video help solve this problem?

ati overdrive fan adjustment ftw! 35% fan speed=best gpu cooler ever!

damn.. I wish the 4870 1gB edition had those special coolers I don't want to spend more on it though... If I successfully get a job on this next job that I apply for, then I will just sell 4870 and buy 5870 when it comes out. I guess I can live with the noise for now.

How much memory do you have?

I think since I have 1gb, the density of the rams increased and so temperature increases.

I have it set to 30% right now and idle is around 42ish.. and on load it goes to around 65 - 70.

as all ready stated this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] -AK&tool=3 has just about the best cooling for the 4850/4870 and its cheap

It might help but not for certain.....case airflow and many other factors can cause the heat you have.....don't overclock it at all

S2 is only copper heatsinks or wutever the terms are, i beleive so yeah maybe... but if the case airflow (which is really good in mine) is good, then shouldnt it be enough??
what about the HIS IceQ4 Turbo 4850 card??!! would that be enough??
my dilemma is between HIS IceQ4 or diamond 4850 +S2 ........
id like to get that other fan over the co.uk website, but i cant even buy stuffs from newegg.com :X doomed to ncix.com (canada)
that thermalright cooler seems to be quite big?? how many slots does it take?? also its freakin 55$ >_>