Friday, May 15th 2009
Akasa Readies Freedom Force Universal VGA Cooler
Akasa is readying a new graphics card cooler for the consumer segment, this time touting support for almost all current single-GPU graphics cards. The Akasa Freedom Force was first pictured at the CeBIT event. It measures 190(L) x 107.5(W) x 55(H), and weighs in at 440 g. Its design consists of a GPU contact block that doubles up as a heatsink, from which four aluminum heatpipes convey heat to two aluminum fin blocks on either side of the GPU block. Each block is subject to air-flow by its own white LED-lit fan that spins at 2200 rpm. The GPU block has mount holes for 43.2 mm, 53.2 mm, and 61.5 mm cooler mounts. Also bundled are nine memory chip heatsinks. The cooler supports one of the broadest range of GPUs, including NVIDIA GeForce GTX 200 (GTX 260, 275, 280, 285), ATI Radeon HD 4000/3000/2000, GeForce 9/8/7 series, etc. A word of caution however, would be that the cooler doesn't pack VRM heatsinks, or heatsinks for NVIO display processors featured on G200(b) and G80 based graphics cards. It will reach retail in about a month's time, and is expected to be priced at 30 EUR (US $40.5).
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26 Comments on Akasa Readies Freedom Force Universal VGA Cooler
Akasa's pretty good. I've used their "IceQ"-like cooler on one of my 8600GT experiments before. 76C stock down to around ~55C. And that was from 540/700 (linked shaders) to 720/1000.
I had an Akasa Vortexx NEO on my 8800GT, absolutely spot on cooler, almost as good as an S1 and looks just as good - if I hadnt recently bolted this HR03 to my 260 this would definately be my first choice :toast:
www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,678011/New-VGA-coolers-from-Akasa-Spire-Thermaltake-and-Maxcube/Reviews/
www.caseandcooling.fr/evenement/news/371-cebit-le-stand-akasa-freedom-tower-freedom-force-et-apache
Didnt like it then dont like it now.
the heatsink for the memory & gpu is fine but theres nothing but air to cool the VRM section!
This looks good
You want GPU Air Cooling you go to Arctic Cooling.
Have you heard how poor the VRM solution is with the Acellero Extreme 280?
i dont think that these lgihtweight coolers can take the strain of a 4870 / 4890 card atall and wont be trying one soon
you wont notice at first as the gpu and mem temps are a bit lower than stock, but after having the card artifact and fchecking in GPUtool youll see the VRM's sitting at 130+ like i did ;)
dead card.... if you get this get the zalman mem and vrm heatsinks... then im sure itll be fine... on its own .. NO
I can't complain about the GTX's stock cooling, used since July of last year, but with overclocking and needing up to 75% fan speed is getting old with trying to have a quieter rig on air cooling. Come to think of it, this GTX260 is the first card to last this long on stock cooling without the cooling being modified/replaced...that alone is pretty impressive imo (for me at least!).
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Got the HR-03 GTX and its EPIC. looks amazing, cools even better - I used to idle at around 52 degrees and load at 78 - 90 degrees - I now idle at anything from 29 degrees to 36 degrees and load, up to this date, I have never gone above 50 degrees.
That made me laugh man, haha I've been there before! ATM my card stays below 70C at OC'd clocks w/64% fan speed, but with temps rising, that won't last long. I'll have to ramp back up to 80%, which still isn't nearly as bad as 100%. I've contemplated the HR03, but I've heard the VRM sucks, but I've also heard that with AC's Accelero GTX cooler. How's that part of it for ya? I'm not much for the looks of it anymore, I do like the Accelero's appearance in comparison. If I could find one at a decent price I may consider it, I do have some spare 120mm fans laying around. Any pricing on this Akasa? I do agree that the name is lame, but if it's performance is good and there's a good price point, it won't matter what it's called it'll be popular...but we'll have to wait and see if it's worth it's price or not.
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