Installation

The Blue Ice is a rather large cooling device and combined with a non standard GPU cooler (like my Zalman VF-700), you can easily run into space limitations. The cooler made my second PCIe 16x slot unusable and came pretty close to the copper cooling as well. Don't even try to use it together with large cards and a SLI setup, because it simply won't work unless you have a lot of room between the PCIe slots.

The pictures show there's almost no room left between VGA and chipset cooler. The second PCIe slot becomes unusable with the cooler installed.





The Blue Ice Pro doesn't have to deal with all of that, simply because its overall design is superior in almost every way. Both PCIe 16x slots were still available and even installing other (larger) cards won't be a problem with this cooler. The installation itself is a bit more difficult than the normal Blue Ice, but no real worries there.




Here you can clearly see that even installing a larger card won't be a problem with the Blue Ice Pro.