GELID Icy Vision Rev. 2 gets GTS 450 and GTX 460 support

Posted on Thursday, September 30 2010 @ 14:51 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
GELID announced the second revision of the Icy Vision VGA cooler, this new model adds compatibility for NVIDIA's GeForce GTS 450 and GeForce GTX 460 graphics cards. It is available in retail stores for $55 (45EUR).
Thermal Solutions specialist GELID Solutions has launched the 2nd revision of its multi-award winning VGA Cooler “ICY VISION” of its GAMER product line. In comparison to the previous edition the “2nd rev. of ICY VISION” is now compatible to Nvidia’s™ promising GTS 450 & GTX 460 card.

The “Rev. 2 ICY VISION” cooler contains 5 power heatpipes in a unique heatpipe constellation. The heatpipes are interlaced into 85 optimized high-quality Aluminium fins. Together with a flat stack fin soldered Copper base, they enable the most efficient heat transmission and dissipation from GPU core in its class.

Besides the heatsink, two 92mm UV-reactive fans with 11 blades in S-shape generate 20% more air flow than traditional fans. The fan contains a high-quality ball bearing to ensure a longer lifetime in high temperature environments. The “Rev. 2 ICY VISION” is both CrossFire and SLI compatible on a number of cards. Screws were optimized to enable a proper SLI in the 2nd revision. To ensure a better cooling more Ram and Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) heatsinks are created to cool down the components around the

GPU. The high performance GC-2 thermal compound is also included in the package. The “Rev. 2 ICY VISION” VGA cooler is available now and has a MSRP of USD 55 or Euro 46. This cooler is RoHS, WEEE conform and carries a 5 year warranty.


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