Aftermarket cooling for 4850 crossfire

[Salmon91]

Hello, my temps on my 4850s are starting to get out of hand, but that's to be expected since they are only single slot cooled. So I've been looking around and trying to find the best alternative for me. I thought about the scythe musashi, thermaltake duorb, akasa neo vortexx and arctig cooling twin turbo. The musashis would be a tight fit and also expensive, otherwise I would've got those. After I did some more searching I found the gfxchilla. It's small enough to fit crossfire and very good at cooling also since it's got 2 cooling fans. Here is a review I was looking at: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/740/1/. It seems to be a very good cooler and should fit crossfire, although I can only use one crossfire bridge but that shouldn't be a problem? So before I go buying anything I would like to hear some opinions, if this is a good choice? or is there a better choice for me?

Then another question I have, is it hard to install an aftermarket cooler? I've never done this before on a graphics card, what are the risks and what should I watch out for?

Any help is much appreciated!

[xtkxhom3r]

the gfxchilla looks like a pretty good cooler i would go with that one

and no aftermarket coolers are not hard to install its basically just 4 screws...

btw have you ever considered saving up for a watercooling setup?

[Salmon91]

Thanks for your reply and yes I have considered watercooling, but it seems a bit expensive for me right now. I have a decent cpu air-cooler (thermalright-120 with a 120mm fan) and if I get the aftermarket coolers for my gpus then my computer is "well cooled". I probably will buy watercooling for my next computer, which will be in a few years and from what I've read here on ocforums is that bad watercooling is just as good at cooling as decent air-cooling. If I get watercooling, I will try and get very good watercooling, which I don't need right now nor have the money for :(.

[xtkxhom3r]

its not as expensive as you think...you should look in the F/S threads thats how i first got into watercooling...i got my first full kit for 100 bucks!

[Salmon91]

Well, I looked around yesterday for some watercooling and I came to the conclusion that I will not get watercooling now, but most likely for my next pc. So I'm going to order 2 gfxchilla coolers now :D.

[fusion509]

you can always go with liquid cooling. I used liquid on both of my 4850's. Only bad thing was that i had to destroy my fan in the process to attach the liquid. One thing that i also noticed with the 4850 fan when i took it off there was a collection of dust where the fan pushes the hot air out. Try cleaning that. Other wise with my liquid i get 35c and 40c for my cards.