{"id":115479,"date":"2017-02-17T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=115479"},"modified":"2017-02-17T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T06:46:57","slug":"evga-launches-ultra-advanced-icx-graphics-card-coolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/115479-evga-launches-ultra-advanced-icx-graphics-card-coolers","title":{"rendered":"EVGA launches ultra-advanced iCX graphics card coolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EVGA\u2019s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evga.com\/articles\/01084\/evga-icx\/\" target=\"_blank\">new iCX cooling<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0technology aims to provide gamers with an expanded level of control over their GPU temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>iCX cooling systems use nine sensors to monitor the temperature of the graphics card\u2019s GPU, memory, and power components, to ensure all sections of the PCB are adequately cooled.<\/p>\n<p>Users can monitor each thermal sensor in EVGA\u2019s bundled software.<\/p>\n<p>The system\u2019s two fans are asynchronous and each rests over one half of a card\u2019s PCB.<\/p>\n<p>The iCX announcement follows EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 graphics cards suffering from overheating issues and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wccftech.com\/nvidia-gtx-1080-1070-evga-cards-dying\/\" target=\"_blank\">bursting into flames<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The cards\u2019 coolers did not have thermal pads applied to their VRM components, which overheated and caused the fires.<\/p>\n<p>The company fixed the issue in a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evga.com\/thermalmod\/\" target=\"_blank\">VBIOS update<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 which forced the cooler\u2019s fans to spin faster. It also gave users complimentary thermal pads to place over their cards\u2019 overheating VRM.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ALytYxBc4SY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/199138-evgas-new-icx-graphics-card-has-9-temperature-sensors.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/198893-new-razer-blade-gets-latest-intel-cpu-and-4k-screen.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New Razer Blade gets latest Intel CPU and 4K screen<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVGA\u2019s new iCX cooling technology aims to provide gamers with an expanded level of control over their GPU temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":115481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1794,1771,24017],"class_list":["post-115479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-evga","tag-graphics-cards","tag-icx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115483,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115479\/revisions\/115483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}