Gainward HD4850 Golden Sample

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:11 pm

Hello,

What can you tell me about this card's cooler? It looks similar to the one Gainward placed on its non-reference 8800GT card.

Dual heatpipes and a 80mm fan @ 1500rpm. Would it [the fan] be easily volt-modded? Maybe with a fanmate?

Website

It looks good, is factory OC'ed and is better than the stock cooler. If I could just connect the fan to a fanmate and make it silent it would be win win

More pics here

EDIT: Holy ....! The fan can be regulated through software!

I'm officially in love with this card.

Matija · Post by **Matija** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:10 am

I have my eyes on it... Looks very interesting; it's a shame that it's not a full exhaust card.

BTW, I think that's a 60mm fan.

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:13 am

Matija wrote:BTW, I think that's a 60mm fan.

A large aluminum heatsink features a central fan thatâ€™s some 6.5cm in diameter

Meh... :/ As long as it's quiet.

Matija · Post by **Matija** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:27 am

Supposedly it runs at around 850 rpm in idle, but perhaps it could be lowered even more.

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:44 am

rpsgc wrote:EDIT: Holy ....! The fan can be regulated through software! I'm officially in love with this card.

Default speed is 50% IIRC.

oakdad · Post by **oakdad** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:50 am

Question is who sells it here in the states?

Cyco-Dude · Post by **Cyco-Dude** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:14 am

oakdad wrote:Question is who sells it here in the states?

palit does. it's the same exact card as the gainward. there will be a 1gb version as well.

thejamppa · Post by **thejamppa** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:30 am

Cyco-Dude wrote:
oakdad wrote:Question is who sells it here in the states?
palit does. it's the same exact card as the gainward. there will be a 1gb version as well.

Yeps, that's the gainward card with different shroud and nicklepalted heatpipes...

Matija · Post by **Matija** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:05 pm

Anyone bought this thing?

neumein · Post by **neumein** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:25 pm

I had this cooler on my 8800gt golden sample. It sounds like a leafblower at full rpm, but running the fan at it's lowest setting via software, I can't hear it at all, and have yet to see my video card go over 70 degrees Celcius.

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:01 am

This cooler really should be in the HD4870... the HD4870 version of this just fails, fails miserably

Fozters · Post by **Fozters** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:54 am

Hi, all. I just bought Gainward HD4850 -> http://www.gainward.com/product/product ... cts_id=179
It has the same kind of cover than gold sample but the heat sink is different. No heatpipes and its round shaped just like in many other hd4850 oem upgraded heat sinks. My problem is that the fan is spinning too fast = too loud. Temps are ok 44c. I can't change the fan speed by software like others. Or yes I can but my start % for speed is 6% so I can only drop speed 6% which means really nothing..well little bit. I can make it much louder 100%

..But that is not what i want

. Any ideas, could some fanmate do the trick

Edit.
More Pics:
1 2 3 4

ps. Like u see the fan power cord is 2 pin and not 4 pin like in retail hd4850. And sorry about picture qualitys, they are taken with cel phone.

Fozters · Post by **Fozters** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:41 am

Well I took power off from the leafblower and set 12cm silent fan under the card. Temps rised 5c+ at idle and 10c+ at stress (48c/74c). That'll fix it for a while

...sorry about posting off-topic

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:29 am

A couple of reviews for anyone interested.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1607/
http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/vid ... -3-p1.html

Yeah, they're not that great but it's what's available!

seVen · Post by **seVen** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:37 pm

hello,

i had this card for a while now. lately the fan started making weird noises, which isn't good

my question is, does anyone know what aftermarket coolers(AC S1?) are compatible with this?

now, the card isn't based on the reference 4850 design, but i think the mounting holes are at the same place.

so anyway. Any advice?

Gainward HD4850 Golden Sample

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