GPU Coolers, question

[umboma]

Hello,

After a lot or research today, I've decided to buy a GPU cooler to replace the stock one and give me better performance and lower sound, I have a GTX470 and the cooler I have found is "DeepCool V6000"

I have two questions, 1st is this the best cooler for my card and 2, are they easy to install can anyone point me in the right direction fo a guide of some sort?

Many Thanks

 

[Tealc]

The cooler itself should come with a guide on how to fit, my Thermalright Shaman certainly did. It's really not much more than whipping of the existing, cleaning the GPU die, RAM and VRM chips (watch for the locations of these as they can vary), fitting the little heatsinks to VRM and RAM and then applying TIM and fitting the cooler, then screwing it all in place and mounting the fans.

Like pretty much anything else every cooler available has plus points and negatives. I haven't looked at the V6000 myself as I don't think it was around when I was buying my grfx cooler but just from visuals it looks competent enough with it's 94mm fans, nice big heatsink and things. There are a few similar coolers like this though, the Gelid Icy Vision and the Arctic Twin Turbo. There is also a three fan cooler in the guise of the Arctic Accelero Xtreme Plus 2, which is quite long but will clearly give good results over a dual fan solution. Deepcool also do a 120mm single fan cooler which looks nice and Thermalright do a beast of a 140mm fanned, 8 heatpipe, 4 slot cooler called Shaman, which is what I use. Zalman also do some coolers and I think one was specifically for the 470, but I have read a few times they are noisy.

 

[CinderzFTW]

might fit

will fit

 

[Deception]

I've got an Accelero Xtreme PLUS here on my GTX 470 and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a GPU cooler. It is pretty much silent and keeps card very cool, including the 470 (my temps never go over 50c).