Review: GELID Icy Vision 2 VGA Cooler
Published by Christian Ney on 12.12.11Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| Gelid Solutions released his new high end cooler for graphics card that proved to be very good in our test. Featuring a very complete bundle, where you will be able to find even more than you need and very good performance on every levels as well at 7v as at 12v. The Ivy Vision 2 cooler has also been very well manufactured although the mounting kit, the fans' fixation and heatsinks look a bit less well made. This can be justified by the price which is very competitive. Indeed Gelid Solutions made his monster available for only CHF 57.- (est. EUR 46.-). | -
Performance - Price - Manufacturing quality - Bundle |
- Noisy at 12 V | |
| Installation | + | - | |
| Mounting the cooler is quite easy and doesn't take a lot of time. There is a very good pressure onto the graphics chip. Applying thermal pads onto the memory chips and VRM can be annoying because it's not that easy to remove the peel off the protective films, but if you take your time it will be definitely easier. And those thermal pads proved to be good as glue, the heatsinks were well fitted. We did not test the cooling efficiency though. Also note that as we did on this test, the Icy Vision 2 may not be compatible only with reference cards but also with own brand PCB cards like our MSI Twin Frozr II. | - Easy and robust - Compatibility list | ||
| Performance | + | - | |
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If you drive your two Gelid Solutions fans at twelve volts there are a both noisy. And unfortunatley they are not PWM capable, we would like the manufacturer to change this with the next revision of their cooler. We recommend to make use of the power cable provided and use the motherboard's bios/software to drive the fans at 7v if you like silence. Because even if we drove the fans at ''only'' 7 Volts, where they are almost noiseless, Gelid Solutions' cooler was still on the top, I mean even with 7v it did better than all other coolers we tested at their full 12v performance. Which makes the Gelid Solutions Icy Vision 2 perfect value if you can control the fan speeds. |
- Very good performance - Noiseless at 7v - Performance at 7v | - No PWM Feature | |
| Recommendation | + | - | |
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The battle is over and we are happy to say that Gelid Solutions' cooler Icy Vision 2 won. Eveybody who is looking for a powerful GPU cooler should take a look at the Icy Vision 2. Even when the fans are at very low rotation speeds it outperforms the other coolers. |
- Desktop PC - Gamer - Overclocker |
- Office PC |
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Author: Chrictian Ney c.ney@ocaholic.ch
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