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Your AfterMarket Cooler Choice?

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I'm curious on your choices. Say you going to buy 1 card from each Team, which
Brand/Cooler would be your choice?

You must pick one from each team


Here's mine
AMD
Sapphire Vapour-X
Because they have some serious cooling power & look pretty stunning

Nvidia
MSI Gaming
Heard very good things about these coolers, running cards very cool & Quiet
 
I would go with:

AMD - Reference Cooler
nVidia - Reference Cooler

I've modded my case to improve the noise & temps of the reference cooler and I must say, the results have been very impressive. Temps are still late 80c, but the fan speed doesn't exceed 65% which is perfectly acceptable. With my case being the Parvum S2, I didnt really want heat to be dumped back into the case, so venting out the back is my preferred choice.
 
Any gigabyte wf model from AMD or NVIDIA. Superb cooler, the twin frozr cooled cards are good too. I own an msi TF 650ti and its comparable to the windforce.
 
setter said:
Any gigabyte wf model from AMD or NVIDIA. Superb cooler, the twin frozr cooled cards are good too. I own an msi TF 650ti and its comparable to the windforce.
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I had a 7970 WF3 for a while, hated it. It was too noisy at stock compared to thhe TF III - they do look nice though.
 
As much as I've extolled the virtues of the gigabyte windforce cooler many times on here, I like the idea of variety just as much. So, if I was buying at the moment, I'd 'probably' go for :

Nvidia : EVGA (heard much praise for them).

AMD : Sapphire Vapor-X (comes well recommended, looks great imo and has a back plate).
 
Surprised at that snips, possible faulty fan perhaps? I've used some wf AMD cards and found them to be equally as quiet as an nv equivalent. Its also nice how the cooler is only a two slot model. Unlike some Asus models.
 
setter said:
Surprised at that snips, possible faulty fan perhaps? I've used some wf AMD cards and found them to be equally as quiet as an nv equivalent. Its also nice how the cooler is only a two slot model. Unlike some Asus models.
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had 3 7970 windforces all had fan rattled after 7 months rmed got replaced for cash then got a gigabyte 7990 which started artfiacting after 8 months

wont be getting giga had enough:p
 
remove the cooler and clean up the processor...........use liquid pro metal cpu paste instead.

my 7970 has liquid pro but i havent tested it yet
 
ive used liquid pro on a 7970,it was a waste of time,temps were waay hotter,gues its down to being too thin

much better results with mx4 paste on gpu's

fitted an accelero aftermarket cooler to mine
 
1) MSI Twin Frzr Gaming Cooler.
2) Titan Reference Cooler. (Reference for 780, 780Ti and Titan)
3) Sapphire Tri X Cooler.
4) Gigabyte Windforce.
5)..




100) AMD Reference Cooler.
 
Hmm, wait, doesn't "aftermarket" cooler mean a cooler that didn't come installed with the product originally?

ie something like the Arctic Cooling or Alpenfohn range?

ITT what you're talking about is just non-reference coolers I think.
 
FoxEye said:
Hmm, wait, doesn't "aftermarket" cooler mean a cooler that didn't come installed with the product originally?

ie something like the Arctic Cooling or Alpenfohn range?

ITT what you're talking about is just non-reference coolers I think.
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Yeah that headline confused me too! I wanted to know what aftermarket cooler would suit my hot-running XFX 7950...

Bit hard for people to judge just from non-reference coolers; which ones are available as aftermarket?

Also, how many buyers have had *all* the non-reference solutions on each comparable video card to compare :p
 
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