DH Review: Arctic Cooling and Zalman GPU Coolers

Zardon · Aug 16, 2007, 11:32 AM

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For years now the majority of graphics cards have required significant cooling when running intensive 3D tasks. Despite this it would be fair to say that many manufacturers place little importance in the quality of the cooling systems attached to their hardware. There are some exceptions which have mainly come from Nvidia’s high end designs such as the 7800 and 8800 series however even ATI’s latest 2900 series still suffer from large and loud cooling solutions. So what happens if a fan just is not cutting it? Well, in the first of a two part article we turn to two of the most well known cooling experts, Zalman and Arctic Cooling to see the alternative cooling they offer for mainstream/budget and older cards such as the Radeon X1950.

Bart1987 · Aug 16, 2007, 04:31 PM

there is an error with the flash on the overclock results page. The jpeg of the Turbo results are correct, but the flash is the same in both pictures.
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/...lers/turbo.jpg
and
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/...erclocking.jpg

Good review though. And do they take up a lot of space? As much as the accelero x's?

Aug 16, 2007, 11:32 AM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	DH Review: Arctic Cooling and Zalman GPU Coolers Read The Review Here ____________________________ For years now the majority of graphics cards have required significant cooling when running intensive 3D tasks. Despite this it would be fair to say that many manufacturers place little importance in the quality of the cooling systems attached to their hardware. There are some exceptions which have mainly come from Nvidia’s high end designs such as the 7800 and 8800 series however even ATI’s latest 2900 series still suffer from large and loud cooling solutions. So what happens if a fan just is not cutting it? Well, in the first of a two part article we turn to two of the most well known cooling experts, Zalman and Arctic Cooling to see the alternative cooling they offer for mainstream/budget and older cards such as the Radeon X1950.

Aug 16, 2007, 04:31 PM	#2
Bart1987 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 634 Rep Power: 0	there is an error with the flash on the overclock results page. The jpeg of the Turbo results are correct, but the flash is the same in both pictures. http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/...lers/turbo.jpg and http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/...erclocking.jpg Good review though. And do they take up a lot of space? As much as the accelero x's? Last edited by Bart1987; Aug 16, 2007 at 04:36 PM.