Gelid Icy Vision VGA Cooler Review
Installation on a GeForce GTS 250
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In order to test the Icy Vision, we installed it on our Zotac GeForce GTS 250, which you can check in Figure 10 with its stock cooler.
Figure 10: GeForce GTS 250
In Figure 11, you can see the nuts that hold the cooler placed on the solder side of our video card. The cooler is heavy, and the addition of a backplate could help to hold the cooler without forcing the board. Note how one of the screws from our sample came with no thread, so we could only use three nuts to install the Icy Vision.
Figure 11: Solder side
In Figure 12, you can see the Icy Vision installed on our GeForce GTS 250. As in other tests with the same board, we didn’t install the heatsinks on the memory chips and on the voltage regulator transistors.
Figure 12: Installed on our VGA