NEW ZALMAN GPU COOLERS (NVIDIA AND ATI) - PRE ORDER NOW (NOW WITH ADDED BENCHMARKS)

There was some of the Zalman paste included, but I opted for Arctic Silver 5 - not because it was better, cos I don't actually know if it is of not on GPU's. But because the paste from Zalman was in a heinz ketchup type packet and Arctic Silver which I had to hand comes in the better push-tubes. :)
 
Ace Modder said:
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Are all the heat sinks in the pack or did you require any extra. (the one with push pins & the loner red one in the 1st pic.)


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Yes they do. lol Just looked on the Zalman website.
 
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Noob'ish question, but are these easy to fit?, havent realy messed with GPU coolers in the past, but seeing the difference these make, I might put 1 on my sapp 5850...
 
I can't say for this particular cooler, but I fitted my hd4870 with an Alpenfohn Heidi and it was easy enough. I think a lot of people find it hard to remove the stock cooler shroud.
 
Ace Modder said:
Right I have completed some benchmarks using a Club 3D 5870 GFXs card. This has the standard reference board and cooler from AMD/ATI so this is one of the best cards to test with.

I have run Furmark in windowed mode at 1280 x 1024 with the card running at stock speeds.

Stock cooler - 69 degrees
Zalman cooler - High fan speed - 42 degrees
Zalman cooler - Medium fan speed - 38 degrees
Zalman cooler - Lowest fan speed - 38 degrees


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I think you've got that table back to front, the high speed was 38 not 42 surely? ;)

Still impressive though, especially if that medium speed is much quieter than the stock cooler.
 
will13 said:
Noob'ish question, but are these easy to fit?, havent realy messed with GPU coolers in the past, but seeing the difference these make, I might put 1 on my sapp 5850...
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The Vortexx Neo I fitted to my 8800GT was a piece of cake. As long as you haven't got two left thumbs, you'll be fine.

 
will13 said:
Noob'ish question, but are these easy to fit?, havent realy messed with GPU coolers in the past, but seeing the difference these make, I might put 1 on my sapp 5850...
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According to the 3DGuru review of the Nvidia version, they busted a resistor during instalation of one of the small heat sinks, (too much pressure required on the 'push-pins)so caution should be excersised.:eek:

I ordered one anyway because it looks like a very good cooler, but I will be VERY cautious during instalation.
I may even pull the pins off that heatsink and use a thermal adhesive for that particular sink.

I have some As5 so im not sure weather to use that for the rest or the included stuff, theres really not much info about apart from the Guru review, well, not for the Nvidia version anyway.
 
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