Monday, December 7th 2009
Prolimatech Unveils MK-13 Multi-VGA Cooler
Prolimatech, of the Megahalems CPU cooler fame, is ready with its first high-performance VGA air-cooler, the Prolimatech MK-13. The cooler boasts of a special OmniMount Retention system, that makes it compatible with all modern single-GPU graphics cards, including those from ATI Radeon HD 5000 series, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 200 series. Other series include GeForce 6 series ~ 9 series and GTS/GT/G 200, and Radeon X1000 series upward. This mechanism, the company claims, provides future-proofing.
The cooler consists of a nickel-plated copper GPU contact block from which six nickel-plated copper heatpipes arise, conveying heat to a densely-packet aluminum fin array. This array is designed such that it can hold four 120 mm fans despite there being low clearance between it and the card's PCB (enough room for memory and VRM heatsinks). Two of these fans attach along top of the array, with two on the sides (bridging two neighbouring VGA cards installed with the same cooler). The main heatsink measures 205 x 99.87 x 43.5 mm, weighing 555 g. The kit includes three different kinds of heatsinks for other components of the card, the necessary fittings, and a syringe of Prolimatech thermal compound. It is priced at 49.9 EUR.More pictures after the page-break.
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Case and Cooling.fr
The cooler consists of a nickel-plated copper GPU contact block from which six nickel-plated copper heatpipes arise, conveying heat to a densely-packet aluminum fin array. This array is designed such that it can hold four 120 mm fans despite there being low clearance between it and the card's PCB (enough room for memory and VRM heatsinks). Two of these fans attach along top of the array, with two on the sides (bridging two neighbouring VGA cards installed with the same cooler). The main heatsink measures 205 x 99.87 x 43.5 mm, weighing 555 g. The kit includes three different kinds of heatsinks for other components of the card, the necessary fittings, and a syringe of Prolimatech thermal compound. It is priced at 49.9 EUR.More pictures after the page-break.
36 Comments on Prolimatech Unveils MK-13 Multi-VGA Cooler
This IS some SERIOUS vga cooler!!!!
I bet u can give your 5870 like 1.6volts and it will be really cool!!!
I am so tempted to buy it even if it costs 50 EUR!!!!
Or on a HD5350 for the lulz.
Any whom! looks nice, but they missed a trick here, could of made it double ended heat pipe style due to how this card mounts.
I am in love.
That's what I'm doing right now with my 8800GTX and Accelero Xtreme 8800. I have two fans (one 92mm and one 80mm) blowing down across the vertical fins. I also have another 70mm fan that fits perfectly onto the right side (separate heatsink of the 8800), blowing through the fins. It performs 3 degrees better than the stock fans that come with the Xtreme 8800!
However, about the 4 120mm fans as shown in the picture, with two blowing thru the fins and two blowing down across the fins, I think this is a horrible setup. I think this setup would actually perform worse than just having 2 fans blowing one way. It's because having 2 fans blowing against 2 other fans would just stifle airflow and conflict with the fan rotation speed of each other. There is the most amount of airflow and highest pressure coming from near the edge of the fan, a bit "diagonally" outwards.
2 fans on top would be PERFECT for SLI or crossfire setups, with 2 of those Prolimatech heatsinks. Especially if those cards are only 2 slots apart, which does not give any room for fans in between. All you would need are two moderately quiet 120mm fans positioned right in the middle, so that the airflow blows down across both heatsinks, or have four fans in total, with two blowing down across the first card, and then two attached to the side of the second card, blowing through it. I'd recommend two 92mm fans if there is not enough room in between the first card and the CPU tower heatsink, though.
This is great to see Prolimatech come out with a super heatsink that's compatible with ALL of the latest video cards (especially both GTX 285 and 5870). :rockout: Hopefully it would also fit with a GT300 (at least with a separate mounting bracket kit, if it's possible).
Just thinking were i could get my hands on one lol.
That long bar thingy beside the sink.. is that a PCB brace? because if it is, then we a have a win.