Article: A quiet air-cooled Radeon HD 7970

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TalkinHorse
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Article: A quiet air-cooled Radeon HD 7970

Post by TalkinHorse » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:35 pm

FWIW...An article on installing a monster heatsink.
The good news is that it’s possible to cool AMD’s flagship Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to less than 75 degrees Celsius under full load, maintaining a quiet 32 dB(A) at the same time. The bad news? It'll cost you five expansion slots and more than $100.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dee ... ,3246.html

I think this retail listing is the heatsink they're using:

http://www.xoxide.com/deepcool-draculavgacooler.html

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Re: Article: A quiet air-cooled Radeon HD 7970

Post by rpsgc » Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:23 pm

Why would anyone want to use this 5 slot monster when the ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme 7970 is better, cheaper and blocks less slots?

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Re: Article: A quiet air-cooled Radeon HD 7970

Post by lb_felipe » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:42 pm

I guess because that Deepcool's is quieter using picked fans for this purpose.

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Re: Article: A quiet air-cooled Radeon HD 7970

Post by claes » Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:04 pm

rpsgc wrote:Why would anyone want to use this 5 slot monster when the ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme 7970 is better, cheaper and blocks less slots?
From reviews I've read it actually outperforms the Accelero Xtreme at idle and load while being quieter. Of course with a huge heatsink like that this makes perfect sense - 5 slots is definitely a trade-off.

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Re: Article: A quiet air-cooled Radeon HD 7970

Post by flemeister » Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:28 pm

Look at all that wasted space between the heatsink and the fans, and the whole thing still sags downwards... Could easily be a 4 slot cooler if the fans were directly attached to the heatsink. Use a suspension wire (DIY job, one end attached to a heatpipe, the other end attached to the roof of the case or any sturdy point) or a support column (like HIS provide with some of their high-end AMD cards such as the blower-style IceQ models) to prevent sagging. :)

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