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this video is going to be a short casual test comparing these stock GeForce GTX 480 to the zotac and Perdition GeForce GTX 480 to a GeForce GTX 480 with the gelid IC vision so you can see these two coolers are quite similar both triple slot coolers where as the stock cooler is a dual slot cooler that blows the exhaust still at the back of the case both of these are going to exhaust air into the case so while this isn't a perfect test because I am using an open test bench as opposed to a closed case where these two would be at a disadvantage it's still gonna give us a little bit of an idea so you can see I am running fur mark in extreme burn mode right now I am running at 87 degrees Celsius so I got MSI Afterburner running in the background there 87 degrees Celsius fan speed a 79 percent so I'm gonna let you listen to the fan it's quite loud a little bit on the obnoxious side my room temperature is 27 degrees Celsius right now so at 87 27 we're gonna take that to be a 60-degree Delta so Delta means the difference between the ambient temperature and the temperature of the GPU and that's at a hundred percent load at 79 percent fan speed so next we're gonna run the the amp Edition and then we're going to run the IC vision and see how they compare in terms of noise and in terms of the Delta Paul I should probably mention the overclock I'm running at right afterburner I'm running at 1.07 5 volts and then I'm running at 850 and 2200 on the core and memory respectively fan speed is set to auto at all times well here's the zotac amp Edition I have to say right off the bat I'm very very impressed because we're running up the same overclock here okay so you can see here all the settings are the same we're running the same burden test and we are hitting a maximum of 72 degrees on the GPU but that's not really the interesting part because that's not a whole lot lower our room temperature right now is 26 so it's gonna make me do math so that's about 46 I hope 26 22 whatever I'm gonna guess 46 and then I'll double check my math later so it's a 46 degree Delta and here's the kicker 47% fan speed some 47% so let's say we go ahead and kick the fan speed up I'm sure we can achieve dramatically better temperatures like let's say let's put this fan up around 80% which is where the other one was and I bet even at 80% it won't be nearly as loud I'll actually hold on no no no wait are we gonna go back to auto get it go back to auto okay so we're back to 45% okay so I'll let you listen to the fan basically you can't even hear it it's super quiet so if we go and ramp it up to a fan speed that's more like what the other one was at which even at 80% it's still not nearly as loud as the stock cooler at 80% then I think we're gonna see really really low GPU temperatures so I'll come back once that stabilizes you can see my room's heating up a little bit now we're at about thirty degrees in the room but so even more impressively than it would be if we were still at the same temperature we're seeing 64 degrees on the GPU that's very consistent so that's at 80% fan speed we're not even going as as fast as we possibly could so that's only a 34 degree Delta at 80% on the zotac amp Edition card so that's very very impressive running at the same overclocked setting so what that means is you can either have more overclocking Headroom on on an amp Edition card so you can turn your GPU voltages up higher or it means you can run at the same settings you could on a stock card but you can do it very very quietly now there is the disadvantage that you can't install as many expansion cards in your system because you can see it's quite a bit thicker than I regularly do card right here and you can still run SLI even in this motherboard which is just a p55 board it just has the right spacing as long as you got three slot spacing you can even run SLI with two and up Edition cards well the icy visions temperatures and fan speeds have finally stabilized a little bit I'm not I mean okay if I was upgrading from the stock cooler I'd be absolutely thrilled with the results but based on the fact that I'm running this compared to the zotac amp Edition card I am not quite as impressed we've stabilized around 80 degrees on the GPU and then get that to focus and at about 57% on the fan speed but it's the fan noise that's kind of bothering me here because even at lower fan speed I find it has a bit of a pulsating pulsating sound to it when it's in a closed case it's probably not going to bother you but it's one of the things that I do notice when it's on the test bench so here I'll just let you listen to it I'm not sure if you can hear that or not but um anyway so eighty degrees and my room is actually a little bit cooler now whoops oh that's bad you're trying to turn on my my thermometer here and I went and moved my probe I'm trying to keep it in front of the fan and take without jamming up the fan which is what I just managed to do there we go so basically I want the the temperature of the air that's going into the fan so eighty degrees minus about okay looks like it's about 27 degrees in here so that's 50 a delta of 53 so that's a little bit worse so 53 degrees at 58% on the fan so I'm gonna go ahead and turn it up to sort of a more comparable 80% and then I will see what it settles on in terms of temperatures well very interesting that appears to be as high as the fan speed on the icy vision goes so you can see I've turned it up even to a hundred percent now it sounds exactly the same and it's cooling exactly the same rooms about a degree warmer now and it's at 82 degrees so that's all sort of well within margin of error so it looks like that's as fast as the fans on the icy vision run I mean it has the advantage of being compatible with a lot of different GPUs but I'd say overall in the GTX 480 if you're looking at an option of either buying a stock card and then throwing an icy vision on it versus just buying an amp Edition card in the first place it comes to about the same price so I think the recommendation at this point should be fairly clear I just want to explain these results a little bit better so remember this is not the temperature of the GPU this is the Delta so that means that's the difference in temperature between room temp and the temperature of your graphics card so a delta of 60 degrees means that if your room was 40 degrees your GPU would be 100 degrees if the Delta is 34 it means that if your room is 34 degrees for example sort of a more realistic room temperature although quite warm even in the summer 34 degrees then your GPU would be at 78 degrees or if it was at 40 it would be at 84 degrees so you see how what I mean there so this is a delta this is not an absolute temperature so these two are for the amp this is for stock and this is for the IC vision okay hopefully that's all pretty self-explanatory