Regardless of how noise insulated your case is, there are still vents out the back of the card, and the airflow through those vents combined with the spinning fan makes for a fair bit of noise. I notice the card spools up the fan to a high rate momentarily when I turn on and off my comp.

juine, are you getting mid-40 degree temps with the HR-03GT? Is it totally passive, or does it have a fan on it?

also, bulk for the accelero: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/749599
which one to choose... hmmm...

Updates...
Yesterday bought a Corsair TX650W, to make sure any OC'ing are stable...My rig now is

Biostar TPower I45
E8400 @ 4.004GHz @ 500 x 8.0 multi @ 1.28V
2GB Corsair Dominator @ 1000MHz @ 2.1V
Sapphire HD4870 @ 780/1080
4 CM 120mm 90CFM Fan
1 Evercool 120mm Fan on Xigmatek 1283 w Crossbow Kit
1 CM 120mm Bling2 Fan
1 Vizo 120mm UV reactive Fan
1 500GB Sata2 HDD 32MB
1 40GB IDE HDD 2MB
1 DVDRW Drive
1 Floppy Drive

Good to see another Corsair psu user... I got HX620 yesterday la... haha
i think should be no problem to pump your rig + oc... nice choice~

even CF also no problem la

I'm eyeing on Coolermaster M700 Modular when I upgrade together with cpu, motherboard, ram, casing and hdd.

Coz rivatuner has not supoorted 4800 series, nothing to do with the drivers

juine not aiming for DA700 ?? btw, i want to know whether the Thermal right HR-03GT ram/heat sink is sufficient for 4870 ? i notice there are quite a lot small component need to cover with ram sink

have a look here

PC&C is better lehz.

HR-03 GT? that's nice... load at 43 and idle 33... really nice.. with a single Zalman 92MM fan operating at 1600RPM along with Arctic Cooling MX-2...

its not silent anymore though...

Wah nice rig..

Thanx...Also put a nice hole in my wallet too

can i noe what does "reference board" means??

It means BBA board or Build By ATi in this case. U can say original PCB design by Nvidia/ATi and respective gpu makers.

Roland San, thx for the article, i did saw it few days ago, but somehow i doubt about the review, from the pictures, seems the card is very barely cover..... eventhough 4870 running more on ceramic components, i believe it still need quite some cooling too rite? the stock heatsink cover most of it if not mistaken......

now i'm thinking to get a HR-03GT or not,

i have one simple question: should i buy the 4870 tomorrow or wait another 2 weeks? *big grin*

What's with the 40GB IDE HDD? Hope you're only using it as a data disk..
If the system partition lives on it it'll definitely bottleneck your PC lol.

acronyx
If u wait,you will wait wait wait and wait.

argghh it's so true dude! ahaha. well i have the money, and i need the upgrade. but i'm afraid right after i bought it they're gonna come out with the OC, extreme, whatever-u-name-it version of it. sigh. hahaha..

Will probably get the accelero twin turbo. Read the installation guide, it comes with ramsinks and voltage regulation chip sinks.

Right now running with stock cooler with two profiles, Idle (31% fanspeed) and Load (45% fanspeed). Just have to remember to switch between them before cranking up any game.

Waiting for the right time is like waiting for a train that never stops. Just have to bite the bullet, and jump on.

This post has been edited by Roland San: Jul 25 2008, 08:59 PM

Yes more than enuff.