I have some watercooled 5970s. I still have the reference air coolers, they do not have many miles on them because they were only used for gaming. I am travelling for work, but when I get home this weekend I will post them for sale in the classifieds. I had no clue there was a market for them.
I have 6 of them.
3x Sapphire
1x XFX
1x Powercolor
1x Diamond
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Topic: HD 5970 replacement fans (Read 3449 times)
I have not found a source for the 5970 coolers at all... The Arctive Cooling ones are out of stock everywhere and of course it's impossible to buy the reference cooler. No one else seems to make an aftermarket cooler for them, either. I would definitely be interested in locating a source.
its standard turbine.visit your vendor service center or order one via internet.
you can also buy slightly more powerful thing
reference, link ?
I have not found a source for the 5970 coolers at all... The Arctive Cooling ones are out of stock everywhere and of course it's impossible to buy the reference cooler. No one else seems to make an aftermarket cooler for them, either. I would definitely be interested in locating a source.
its standard turbine.visit your vendor service center or order one via internet.
you can also buy slightly more powerful thing
I have not found a source for the 5970 coolers at all... The Arctive Cooling ones are out of stock everywhere and of course it's impossible to buy the reference cooler. No one else seems to make an aftermarket cooler for them, either. I would definitely be interested in locating a source.
just replace turbine with similar properly working in service center for nominal fee.
"alternative coolers" less noisier, sure, but they usually not exhaust hot ait, but messing with it inside PC case, so resulted noise not lower[meaning in result you NEED add extra fans to PC case to back this up]amounts, but shifts in frequency below[GPU turbines use high-RPM's, while 120mm/140mm/250mm PC case fans signinficantly lover RPM rate].
so to summarise: ext-exhaust reference cooler ftw, for long-term full-stress usage.
"alternative coolers" less noisier, sure, but they usually not exhaust hot ait, but messing with it inside PC case, so resulted noise not lower[meaning in result you NEED add extra fans to PC case to back this up]amounts, but shifts in frequency below[GPU turbines use high-RPM's, while 120mm/140mm/250mm PC case fans signinficantly lover RPM rate].
so to summarise: ext-exhaust reference cooler ftw, for long-term full-stress usage.
I use a Arctic cooling Accelero Extreme on my 5870. Excellent replacement fan kit, has 3 pretty big fans on the side though I'm not sure if they make one for the 5970 GPU.
Anybody know of a good source for replacement fans for 5970's?
Got some that are starting to get noisy, seems like they may have a shorted pole or something .... feel quite 'coggy' when turning by hand and sometimes make a clattering on start-up.
Would be good to know if it was worth the cost.
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