Review: GELID Icy Vision 2 VGA Cooler
Published by Christian Ney on 12.12.11Construction and design
Construction
The Icy Vision Rev. 2 has got a well manufactured copper base plate with a visible mirror effect as you can see on the picture below. The heat is dissipated thanks to a set of no less than 85 fins using five copper heatpipes which have a diameter of 6 mm. An efficient cooling surface is quite important, with 85 fins and two 90 x 20 mm fans this cooler should be capable of good heat exchange.
Design
We did not see any manufacturing mistakes on our sample, and it seems that it has been well made which means that manufacturing is on a high level. We can see that the cooler is split into two separate cooling blocks which are connected via the copper heatpipes. One block offers 39 fins and the other 46. All the fins have been soldered to the heatpipes to guarantee good stability as wells as a good heat transfer.
Fan
Gelid Solutions equips their Icy Vision Rev. 2 with two 90 x 15 millimeters fans named 9215 S-Shape UV Blue Fan (Model No.: GC-VGA02-01). They both have eleven blades and they glow when illuminated with UV light. Unfortunately they are not PWM, so they are working at a constant speed of 2'000 RPM. However you can lower the voltage/fan speed using an adaptor power cable provided to connect it to one of your motherboard header and use your motherboard to monitor and control the fans. For our test, we used a fan speed controller. As for the specs of the fans, Gelid Solutions declares no more than 26 dBA, with an airflow of 114.13 CMH (Cubic Meters of air per Hours) and a static pressure of 1.3 mmAq. Furhtermore those fans have a magnetic nanoflux bearing which allows the fans to operate almost noiseless at low rotating speeds. Once the fans are dirty you can even disassemble them and wash them with floating water.
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