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    Isn't it nice to see XFX cooling a GPU this far?

    http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=17578

    that heatsink and fan set up do a great job

    Maybe they learned a lesson from the nVidia XFX card that seemed to drop like flies for a while?

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    Re: Isn't it nice to see XFX cooling a GPU this far?

    Yarp, I bought the Asus HD4850 because of the custom cooler (Zalman like in design) cause I didn't want a noisy reference based card like my old 6800

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    Re: Isn't it nice to see XFX cooling a GPU this far?

    Quote Originally Posted by dave87 View Post
    Yarp, I bought the Asus HD4850 because of the custom cooler (Zalman like in design) cause I didn't want a noisy reference based card like my old 6800
    does it "exhaust" out of the back of the case, or is it just a two slot cooler internally?

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    Re: Isn't it nice to see XFX cooling a GPU this far?

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    Re: Isn't it nice to see XFX cooling a GPU this far?

    Unfortunately just a two slot cooler internally.


    Even with my fans on minimum the case temp is around the 25C mark, so not too bad when you look at the specs
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    Thanks to Antec and Silverstone (P160 and 9 blade fans, respectively for that one )


    That said, I'd have preferred it vented out the back in the search for ever lower temps!

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    Re: Isn't it nice to see XFX cooling a GPU this far?

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    Re: Isn't it nice to see XFX cooling a GPU this far?

    Quote Originally Posted by dave87 View Post
    Even with my fans on minimum the case temp is around the 25C mark, so not too bad when you look at the specs
    v.nice. I panicked when I saw the last Hexus review that included an ASUS 4850, because it was up at 77 idle and I'd just bought one to go in an mATX build for a friend!

    Fortunately, it turns out they're still using the old one with the reference cooler rather than the Zalmanesque one. With one cheap 120mm case fan in a cheap mATX mini-tower everything sat at high 30s / low 40s. Not ultra-chill, I admit, but good enough given that the damn thing is small, cute *and* practically silent

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