IceQ cooler

[botw]

I am considering an HIS 4850 with their IceQ cooler. Does anyone have any experience with this cooler? I am primarily concerned about the noise (or lack thereof). I'm moving up from a fanless 8600gt. Thanks

 

[rennyf77]

very quiet cooler.

 

[EvilAlchemist]

I have 8 HIS 4850 ICEQ video cards. All of mine are running Folding@Home
They are awesome. I can highly recommend this product.

They run extremely cool and the fan noise if very quiet - even at 90% fan.

Mine are at 99% gpu load 24/7 so I have to have good coolers.

 

[Bo_Fox]

Anybody take it off a 4850 and slap it onto a 4870?

Fud said that HIS is not going to make an IceQ4 version of the 4870 for at least a long while (few to several months). Well, I'm not going to give HIS any more business because of that. UGH!

 

[EvilAlchemist]

Fud said that HIS is not going to make an IceQ4 version of the 4870 for at least a long while (few to several months).

Since the ICEQ 4850 is a non-refrence card, that sounds arouut right.
There was a few month gap between the stock 4850 and this version.

The 4870 stock cooler is not really bad, IMO at least.

 

[Bo_Fox]

the problem is that one of my rigs has a cool UV blue/purple theme and adding a red card in it messes up the aesthetics.

the blue PCB and UV-reactive cooler of the ICEQ 4850 looks awesome, and comes in both 512MB and 1GB variants. Why, oh why couldnt HIS do the same for the 4870? AFAIK, all 4870's come in red PCB's, which suck.

Remember when the 8800GTX used to be on green PCB's? A few months later, Nvidia changed the reference PCB for the 8800GTX from green to black to make it attractive, to keep selling them at $600 a piece. I still have 8800GTX's in both of my rigs and they're both black and beautiful.