Friday, December 4th 2009

Thermalright Intros Spitfire VGA Cooler

Heatsinks specialist Thermalright released to the market its Spitfire VGA heatsink. This 147 (L) x 123 (W) x 154 (H) mm, 550 g heatsink comes with a unique angled design. A GPU contact base made of nickel-plated copper forms the starting point for six sintered nickel-plated heat-pipes, which then propagate perpendicular to the plane of the video-card, typically passing over other expansion cards in the system. The heatsink can then provide silent passive cooling, or active cooling, by latching on 140 mm or 120 mm fans (fans not included in the package, fan-clips are).

The package includes three types of heatsinks for the memory chips and VRM, all necessary retention mechanisms, including thumb-screws for tool-free installation. A syringe of the Chill Factor TIM is also included. The cooler is compatible with most modern GPUs, including GeForce 7, 8 (excluding G80-based ones), 9 series (single GPU), Radeon HD 3800 series, HD 4800 series, and HD 5800 series. There is no support for GT200-based GeForce GTX 200 series. Pricing and availability are yet to be known.
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37 Comments on Thermalright Intros Spitfire VGA Cooler

#26
theubersmurf
OnBoardHeh, good point, totally forgot that you could use that without a fan mounted on it with less strain on GPU. I've just never used side panel fans, as I don't like them, but with this it would make sense.

Not for extreme overclocks though, fins too tight for the side panel fan to work optimally at a distance. Some sort of push pull action could be had though if you'd mount the fan under the GPU cooler and side fan blowing on top.
If I do buy one, I'll definitely be putting a fan directly on the fin/heatpipe/surface area.
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#28
pantherx12
theubersmurfIf I do buy one, I'll definitely be putting a fan directly on the fin/heatpipe/surface area.
With my experiance with HR-03 if this is anything like it it won't be nesscery.

I once had just a 80mm side fan blowing on its heatpipes at it wouldn't go over 60 load at 910mhz on my core : ]

Not bad for just a side fan on the pipes :laugh:
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#29
theubersmurf
pantherx12With my experiance with HR-03 if this is anything like it it won't be nesscery.

I once had just a 80mm side fan blowing on its heatpipes at it wouldn't go over 60 load at 910mhz on my core : ]

Not bad for just a side fan on the pipes :laugh:
what kind of card was it on? Which revision of the HR 03? (mostly just curious)
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#31
Meizuman
This would work really well in Antec 300... If the side fan would be blowing the heat out of the sink. :)
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#32
HaZe303
I like it. FInally some new innovation for gpu cooling. So im very pleased of TR´s new design. Hopefully it cools well too. With 6pipes it should, only thing that worries me is space requirements inside the case?
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#33
pr0n Inspector
HaZe303I like it. FInally some new innovation for gpu cooling. So im very pleased of TR´s new design. Hopefully it cools well too. With 6 pipes it should, only thing that worries me is space requirements inside the case?
6 heat pipes on a small flip chip = LOL
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#34
pantherx12
Thermalright don't use direct touch, so the heat will get to all the heatpipes.
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#36
pr0n Inspector
pantherx12Thermalright don't use direct touch, so the heat will get to all the heatpipes.
I highly doubt that few mm of copper can spread heat very well.
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#37
pantherx12
I have a HR-03 GT technically only 2 of the heat pipes would " touch" the GPU, Yet I have outstanding temps : ]
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