Custom cooled 480's?

[jarhead]

Seriously, where are all the super duper custom cooled GTX 480 cards? I know we have the EVGA superclocked version, but that is still using a reference cooler. Anybody heard any rumors about this? Going to buy at least one 480 in the next month or two and like the bling factor

 

[Camaroz06]

watercooling is as custom as you can get.

 

[Forceman]

The AMP! is about the only one I've seen.

 

[jarhead]

Yeah, and it's a good card and everything, but I was hoping that maybe in the next few months someone would come out with a better cooler that still fit in the two slots. I haven't seen anything on the web, but maybe you guys have better rumor sources

 

[Forceman]

For the past few iterations, there haven't been too many non-reference coolers that fit in the dual-slot layout. Looks like AMD and Nvidia have pretty much gotten a handle on what is possible in that form factor.

 

[Ravynmagi]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=26448

Apparently very soon.

 

[Dosobye]

I have seen that cooler on other cards as well. It's nothing new, not sure why other MFGs don't use them. is it a copy right thing?

 

[Ravynmagi]

I have seen that cooler on other cards as well. It's nothing new, not sure why other MFGs don't use them. is it a copy right thing?

It appears to be an Arctic Cooling Accelero. I think these just came out for the GTX 480 earlier in the month. And it probably takes the card makers a bit of time to test it out and whatever they need to do to get a new model ready.
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_&mID=619

 

[martinje]

Palit has one, but to expensive for my taste.

http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-GeForce...?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1284651681&sr=8-11

 

[ReelMcCoy]

Took a chance and plunked for a Sparkle GTX480 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187117&cm_re=GTX_480-_-14-187-117-_-Product) that may use the Arctic Cooling Accelero. Big card, funky purple fans and wants 3 slots worth of space. It is pretty quiet at idle and I don't hear it when F@H's GPU3 client is making use of it. But then my systems run on air cooling and I think most would freak at the amount of fan noise I live with.

 

[Putz]

the stock cooling on the 480 isnt bad really, its a hot GPU no matter how you cool it, the artic cooling solution looks to be 3 slots, and dumping alot of heat into the case

the 480 cooler looks to be one of the best reference coolers ive seen to date, and it exhausts outside, short of water or a 3 slot solution i dont think youll find much improvement yet, they need to make the fans bigger or something to make them a bit quieter, but the sink is good