Thermalright Readies VRM Heatsinks for Radeon HD 5800 Series Graphics Cards

[btarunr]

Closely following up the launch of its SpitFire VGA Cooler, air-cooling specialist Thermalright introduced the VRM-R4 and VRM-R3 graphics card VRM heatsinks designed for AMD Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards. In many ways, these two heatsinks resemble the VRM-R1 and VRM-R2, which the company introduced back in July, for the Radeon HD 4800 series accelerators.

The new VRM-R3 and VRM-R4 measure 122 x 85 x 99 mm and 133 x 53 x 127 mm (LxWxH), respectively, and consist of baseplates that double up as small heatsinks, from which, two 6 mm heatpipes convey heat to an aluminum fin array big enough to mount 80 mm fans. For the VRM-R3, this fin array propagates perpendicular to the plane of the motherboard, while for the VRM-R4, is goes along the plane. Like their predecessors, the two should be compatible with popular Thermalright GPU coolers such as HR-03 Rev.A, HR-03 GT, HR-03 GT V2, T-Rad2, and T-Rad2 GTX. Pricing isn't known as yet.



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[AsRock]

Maybe wxw.sidewindercomputers.com will get these ones in stock too. Seen the $48xx series ones there around $28..

Maybe one day i'll pick up the 48xx series one of these days.

 

[1Kurgan1]

How would these look in CF, or would they even work?

 

[cadaveca]

From Thermalright direct(in question ot the 4800-series):

Dear Dave,

Thanks for your mail.
I'm sorry to inform you that our VRM solution is not compatible with
Crossfire setting.

Best regards
Armand Cheng
Lea-Min Tech., Co., Ltd.
(Thermalright, Taiwan)

Maybe they will fix this for 5800-series, but that remains to be seen.

 

[pantherx12]

Why couldn't they make these with double mounting options like their GPU sinks.

Idiots XD

 

[Polarman]

Believe me! they are big. But boy! do they work!

 

[my_name_is_earl]

How would these look in CF, or would they even work?

That. The thing just look awkward to be mounted.