Vantec iCEBERQ4 VGA Cooling Kit

Vantec iCEBERQ4 VGA Cooling Kit - Installation

Here's what we are starting out with today. Don't mind the odd colors on the card, the guy who I bought this from thought it would be neat to paint this thing like a friggin' clown. The cooler that's on it here is actually a BFG cooler and not the stock cooler that comes with the card. I think though, that this is merely a stock cooler off a different card so it's nothing fantastic at any rate.

One awesome thing I noticed almost immediately after taking the iCEBERQ 4 out of it's package was the mirror-like finish on the contact side...

The smoother the finish on your heat sink the better the contact between it and the GPU, which of course translates into better heat dissipation. I used the thermal tape that was included to adhere the 4 memory heat sinks...

Once all four were attached it looked pretty damn good, too bad there weren't four for the other side...

Next I installed the GPU cooler itself and I thought I was S.O.L., check out the pic below to see what I mean...

As you can see the cooler hangs over the gold AGP connectors which would obviously prevent me from properly installing the card. Duh, it turns out you have to install it with the words facing the other way. So once I had it turned around, and I used some of the old memory heatsinks I had for the other chips I was left with this...

Once it was installed I got to see the blue LED's light up the PCI card area as shown below...

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