WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:07.839 Today I'm going to be unboxing the very first VGA cooler from Gelled Solutions. 00:00:05.279 --> 00:00:11.360 Gelled has a huge lineup of fans. They've got some CPU coolers under their 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:17.279 belt. They have excellent thermal compound, but this is their first foray 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:20.480 into a VGA cooling solution. So, it has 00:00:17.279 --> 00:00:22.240 dual UV blue fans, five power heat five 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:26.480 power heat pipes. I'm not sure what they mean by power heat pipes, but I can tell 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:32.239 you right now that the heat pipes will not consume extra power in your system. 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:35.920 That's right. If you have a GTX 480, the heat pipes will not make your power 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:40.719 consumption higher, so you don't have to worry about that. Support is pretty much 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:46.000 there for almost all current video. In fact, all current video cards. They even 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:48.719 have support for the 5850, 5870, the GTX 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:53.520 470, as well as the GTX 480. So, the compatibility list goes all the way back 00:00:50.559 --> 00:00:58.000 to the 4800 series as well as the 9800 series for NVIDIA. So, that's pretty 00:00:55.760 --> 00:01:01.680 darn good. Now, in terms of performance, Gellled claims, and here, let's see if I 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:06.799 can zoom in on this so that you can actually read it. Gellled claims on the 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:12.080 GTX 480. So, here's their Oh, here's their test bench. They are using uh Here 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:16.479 we are. Oh, wow. That's interesting. They're using someone else's CPU cooler 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:21.040 when they actually have their own CPU cooler. Very strange, but they're using 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:25.520 a GTX 480 from ASUS. And they're claiming that underload when you're 00:01:23.080 --> 00:01:33.280 overclocked. So that's the uh the green bar here. It's almost 20° cooler than 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:35.280 the stock fan while running at I'm going 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:39.520 Yeah. while running at a much slower RPM. So you're going to get much better 00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:47.040 acoustic performance out of the Icy Vision. So here is the Banchettto 101. 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:48.560 Interesting. So here is the stock. Yeah. 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:52.799 Okay. So they've just reiterated that again over here. Interesting. Here is 00:01:50.560 --> 00:02:00.960 their overclock. A mild 800 MHz overclock, but still 72° at 2,000 RPM is 00:01:56.479 --> 00:02:02.640 a lot better than 91° at 3300 RPM. So, 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:06.079 here we can see the back of the cooler. Here we can see the front of the cooler. 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:11.280 So, there's your dual uh what appear to be 92 mm fans, and they are UV blue. 00:02:09.679 --> 00:02:17.599 Let's get this thing opened up. I've had enough of talking about the packaging. 00:02:13.959 --> 00:02:20.400 Premium aluminum fins, pure copper base, 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:25.280 uh, dual S-shaped fans for 20% more air flow. H, okay. Ball bearing for long 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:29.520 lifetime, and they are Crossfire and SLI compatible. But something you will have 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:34.879 to watch out for is that this cooler does appear to be a triple slot cooler. 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:39.360 So, unless your system has the Oh, actually, hold on. Let's see if I think 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:45.640 it is a triple slot cooler. Okay, here just a moment here. So, here is a here 00:02:42.160 --> 00:02:48.280 is a video card and here is the 00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:52.879 cooler. So, yeah, this has got to be a triple 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:57.360 slot cooler. So, unless you've got the appropriate spacing. So, you can see 00:02:54.400 --> 00:03:02.400 here I've got a motherboard that has one PCIe slot, two additional slots, another 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:05.599 PCIe slot, and two additional slots. So, if you had two of these coolers, you 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:08.800 would be effectively using all of the slots in this motherboard. So, just be 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:13.120 aware of that. All right. So, let's have a look at the 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:17.040 accessory package. First, we have Ooh, color instructions. Very, very nice. 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:21.840 Thank you, GED Solutions. I always appreciate a color instruction booklet. 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:25.760 These are great diagrams, too. I can tell right off the bat, they've gone and 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:30.159 shown you all of the necessary little steps where to install all the little 00:03:27.920 --> 00:03:34.000 RAM syncs, everything that you need. They've got this is for the NVIDIA 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:36.959 series here, and then I'm guessing on the other side is going to be ATI 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:42.319 series. Yep, here's your ATI series instructions. All right. Very nice. So, 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:47.640 it's about a ninestep program to uh install your graphics card cooler. Here 00:03:44.799 --> 00:03:52.159 they've got an adapter. So, the Icy 00:03:49.640 --> 00:03:55.680 Whoops. I forgot what it's called. Yeah, the Icy Vision there. That's not that 00:03:53.760 --> 00:03:59.439 complicated. The Icy Vision comes with one of these little proprietary video 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:03.519 card fan connectors, but you can go ahead and adapt it to either a three pin 00:04:01.760 --> 00:04:08.159 fan connector or a Molex connector. So, even though it has two fans, you only 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:15.479 have to plug it in with one header. So, that's pretty handy. Okay. It includes 00:04:10.480 --> 00:04:19.519 some GC2 thermal compound, which is this 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:22.560 color. Okay. Then, it also includes a 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:24.400 bunch of RAM sinks. So, those are here. 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.880 All right. So, these are lowprofile RAM sinks. So, I'm guessing these are the 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:33.040 ones that are going to go under the cooler itself. And the thermal pads are 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:37.600 not pre-applied, which honestly I don't really mind because it's not really much 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:40.880 easier to to peel off the backing and then stick it on than it is to just peel 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:44.880 off two sides of backing and put it on the the RAM sink. So, here are the 00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:48.720 actual You can tell right away. These are 3M branded thermal pads. And then 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:53.240 they've also got another thermal interface for uh where did that guy go? 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:57.199 I saw it before. All right, here we have a multi. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:01.199 Okay, let's just finish with this. So, we've got some washers here. These are 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:07.199 for making sure that nothing shorts out. We've got some more thermal interface 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:09.280 material. We have some bigger sinks, 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:12.160 some smaller sinks. So, basically, Galllet's making sure they got all their 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:17.280 bases covered, no matter what little chips you need to throw sinks on. Then, 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:21.840 we have all of the mounting screws and hardware for actually attaching the Icy 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:27.199 Vision to your video card. Then, we have a little GEID case badge. Thank you for 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:29.120 that. Then over here we have more stuff. 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:33.600 And if I can Oh, yeah. There it is. I knew I saw this somewhere. So, this is 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:37.919 what that long thermal strip was for. Um, this guy right here. So, let me just 00:05:36.479 --> 00:05:43.280 adjust that. I'm wearing kind of a slippery shirt today. So, my camera isn't staying in place as well as I'd 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:48.639 like. So, that's going to be for VRM on one card or another. Then, we have the 00:05:45.520 --> 00:05:50.600 actual hold down or back plate rather. 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:56.560 If I could get this out then that would be splendid. There we go. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:01.600 And finally, one last little heat sink. Okay, so there's another heat sink. And 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:04.800 here is the back plate. Universal back plate by the look of things. So you got 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:10.560 lots and lots of different mounting holes in there. All right, let's have a look at the IC Vision itself. So here's 00:06:08.080 --> 00:06:13.520 our two fans. These spin at 2,000 RPM, although there's no reason you couldn't 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:17.039 turn them down if you're content with having higher GPU temperatures and 00:06:15.520 --> 00:06:22.400 you're more interested in just keeping the uh noise levels down. So you can see 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:26.240 we are using aluminum fins here. So, let's see how many heat pipes we have 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:31.840 going to each one of these uh thin arrays. So, we've got basically what 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:34.720 amounts to kind of two slim fans mounted 00:06:31.840 --> 00:06:38.880 on two kind of uh I guess they're about each about the size of an 80 mm water 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:44.240 cooling radiator or so. So, you got three heat pipes going to this one and 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:46.400 then you've got one two heat pipes going 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:49.199 to this one right here. Yeah. Yeah, that's correct. So, there's actually 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:53.600 five heat pipes running through the base. And we'll do the obligatory finger 00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:58.000 shot here where we show how shiny it is. It's not particularly shiny, although it 00:06:55.440 --> 00:07:02.240 does look to be machined quite flat. The base is bit of a more of a matte finish, 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:06.400 whereas the heat pipes have actually got like a shiny polished finish to them. It 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:09.120 looks quite nice. And then, let me see if there's anything else to really show 00:07:07.520 --> 00:07:15.120 you about it. Why don't I just sort of do some camera work here and just show you 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:18.479 the Icy Vision in all its glory here. You can kind of I haven't installed it 00:07:16.880 --> 00:07:24.080 yet obviously, but you can sort of visualize what it'll look like on a GTX 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:26.560 480 if I do this. So there there's a 480 00:07:24.080 --> 00:07:30.560 in its stock state and there's one with an Icy Vision. And if you happen to 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:35.280 already have Gelid Wing UV Blue fans, then this will go really well with it, 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:40.240 which I happen to have. So I'm uh I feel quite privileged to get my hands on the 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:43.840 Icy Vision. And uh yeah, I guess there's not too much more to say about it. What 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:46.720 it's really going to come down to is how well it performs. And hopefully I'll 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:52.639 have a chance to test it in the near future and show you guys my results. Thank you for checking out my unboxing 00:07:49.440 --> 00:07:55.199 of the Gellid Solutions Icy Vision VGA 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:55.199 Cooler.