Idle / OCCT GPU

Fan Speed

Basically at 30 % the fans are almost noiseless, at 50 % you hear them and at 100 % it's noisy. The Icy Vision 2 though has got a fan speed of 2'050 rpm at 100 % that is less than the MSI's Twin Frozr II fans at 50 %. That said, Gelid Solutions' cooling solution is not as loud as other coolers at 100 % fan speed.

Idle Temperature

When Idle, every coolers perfom the same, there is only 1°C difference at most between them. Though the MSI Cyclone did really bad in Idle, we even unmouted the cooler and mounted it back again, same result.

Temperature under OCCT GPU

OCCT GPU as well as furmark are the graphics card's nightmare for both power consumption and heat keeping the graphics card under heavy load. MSI's Twin Frozr II proved to perform very well at both 100 % and 50 % fan speed but failed the test at 30 % as the temp of the GPU reached 85°C (OCCT shut down the test). Asus' Direct CU and MSI's Cyclone coolers failed both at 50 % and 30 % speed. Impressive results from Gelid Solutions' Icy Vision 2, even at 30 % speed, the temperature of the GPU did not reach the temperature of other coolers at 100 %.