King WookieI've been hearing good things about the Akasa Vortex Neo. Basically a stock type cooler done right. Fairly cheap too. I'm debating whether to bring one in, just to see.

if you wait until i but my twin turbo ill sell you mine on the cheap ;)

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Just realised your in africa haha.

AddSubLooks decent I guess. Although, it is still dumping all that heat into the case.

I'm still waiting for Thermaltake or somebody to come up with something for the GTX 200 lineup. I hope it's not based on the DuOrb. I don't want 200+ watts of thermal dissipation being dumped into my case. Something based on the stock cooler with exhaust would be nice. Heck, it can take up to three or four slots for all I care.

They could even take the stock cooler and just make it all-copper and put in a higher CFM fan and it would probably be better than stock by 10C or so.

The effect of the extra heat in the case is greatly over exaggerated anyway. If the heat dump is enough to cause problems in your setup, you needed better airflow anyway.

Wile EThe effect of the extra heat in the case is greatly over exaggerated anyway. If the heat dump is enough to cause problems in your setup, you needed better airflow anyway.

True Dat!!!!:D

kyle2020if you wait until i but my twin turbo ill sell you mine on the cheap ;)

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Just realised your in africa haha.

Thx for the thought.:toast:

I can get 1 for $30 plus shipping from the States, and shipping is not too expensive.($25 on my last order)
Also, our exchange rate against the dollar is much kinder to my wallet!

Yes, the HR-03-GT Thermalright is a great cooler. Mounted one on my blazing hot 4870. But I've come to the conclusion that great GPU cooling numbers aren't that difficult to come by. It is the VRM's, especially the Slaves #1, #2 and #3 that are hell to cool. So I rigged two 120mm T-take fans mounted to the HR, plus sinking everything that looked like it might get warm. So far it's working quite well! Getting air on those VRM's is critical and not just case air movement either. They need direct air. I still have room for the 2nd 4870 adding the same vga cooling rig as well. This Mushashi would certainly provide more room in between.

By the way, after many tests of COD4, the GPU temp never gets above 55-60C and the hottest the Slave 1,2 and 3 get is 65-75C. Slightly o/c at 780/1090. This is a major improvement over the stock ASUS 4870 fan. And it's whisper quiet.

Frozen CPU lists the Musashi at $50 U.S., but out of stock.

KGW

Review with lots of great pictures (google translated):
translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerbase.de%2Fartikel%2Fhardware%2Fgehaeuse_kuehlung%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=de&tl=en

Seems like the cooler base should be more center. Now it hangs much more to right than it would need to, causes problems for shorter cases and for those cards with power plugs in the end.

GTX 260/280 isn't mentioned on the supported cards list, because there is no heatsink for the NVIO2 chip. Hardly a problem for most in hear with 4 mounting holes around it. Just some old aluminium sink, drill holes and bolt through.

Performance seems great even with low fan speed and 35€ would be a good price, not bad at all. Last time I wrote in this thread had 8800GT and not really a need for this. Now with 9800GTX+ I'm looking for an aftermarket cooler and this has even all the needed heatsinks (the long narrow is for this).

Only problem is the release date or if it even comes here and what would the price be. There isn't even any MX-2 in the whole Finland! :( Think I might have to go with Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo if I get bored of waiting, at least it has some MX-2 in the bottom :p

For you Nvidia 260/280 hounds, take a gander at this puppy. The new HR-03-GTX Too bad they don't have an ATI version out yet. :confused:

www.thermalright.com/new_a_page/product_page/vga/hr-03_gtx/product_vga_cooler_hr03gtx.html

As for waiting for the Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo or the Scythe Musashi, just take an Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 V2 and strap a couple of these ultra-thin 12mm babies on it. The only problem with these fans is that I do not think they are controllable. At least not for us mere mortals using a normal fan controller. :ohwell:

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185071

With the exception of the Twin Turbo fin assembly being a bit smaller, it's basically the same thing as the S1-v2. Adding the 100mm fans would remove the potential of the historically noisy 80mm fans.

With all that said, this is the one that I think has the most potential for XFire or SLI. Supposed to be out this month, (September), but I've heard nothing yet.

www.thermalright.com/new_a_page/product_page/vga/t-rad2/product_vga_cooler_trad2.html

I really like the looks of the T-Rad, but I do hope that T-Right will release their VRM cooling design to be used on ATI cards, (like the GTX model).

kgw