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So, I thought I could do a budget build with a single loop for CPU/GPUs with water cooling. Turns out that's going to be a waste of time.
I recently upgraded from a EVGA 285GTX to crossfired 6870 XFX cards (non-Double-D). My 285GTX was overclocked to EVGA SSC specs, and has ran fantastic, quiet, and cool since the day I bought it. With switching to the XFX 6870 cards, they do NOT use the squirrel cage fans like the EVGA 285 card had, and as such are intolerably loud to me. So, I'm searching for a more quiet solution to cool these cards that won't break the bank (no point in spending 500+ in water cooling on cards that cost 160/ea before rebates). I've researched all I can to find what out there is available for these cards, and I have come up with the following five:
1. Zalman VF3000A: http://www.zalman.com/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=385
2. Arctic Cooling Accelero Mono Plus or Twin Turbo II: http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/cooling/vga.html
3. GELID Solutions Icy Vision Rev2: http://www.gelidsolutions.com/products/index.php?lid=1&cid=17&id=52
4. Xigmatek BiFrost 2: http://www.xigmatek.com/product.php?productid=124
Another member here (ssjwizard) said that he has a friend with the Gelid cooler and the guy was happy with it.
My concerns with all of these coolers is overall height. I have an older Asus motherboard that has 62mm on the center to center distance between the card board.
More than one of the manufacturers I listed above are rather vague about the dimensions on the card. Only Arctic Cooling has blueprints on their site showing actual dimensions, but unfortunately they don't have the total height dimension for their Twin Turbo II (I have e-mailed them asking for it).
Does anyone else have any real world experiences with these coolers that they can comment on? I can easily Google "<model number> cooler review" and find articles out there, but even they are vague about dimensions to a certain extent.
Thanks in advance for any insight lent.
-Abe
So, I thought I could do a budget build with a single loop for CPU/GPUs with water cooling. Turns out that's going to be a waste of time.
I recently upgraded from a EVGA 285GTX to crossfired 6870 XFX cards (non-Double-D). My 285GTX was overclocked to EVGA SSC specs, and has ran fantastic, quiet, and cool since the day I bought it. With switching to the XFX 6870 cards, they do NOT use the squirrel cage fans like the EVGA 285 card had, and as such are intolerably loud to me. So, I'm searching for a more quiet solution to cool these cards that won't break the bank (no point in spending 500+ in water cooling on cards that cost 160/ea before rebates). I've researched all I can to find what out there is available for these cards, and I have come up with the following five:
1. Zalman VF3000A: http://www.zalman.com/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=385
2. Arctic Cooling Accelero Mono Plus or Twin Turbo II: http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/cooling/vga.html
3. GELID Solutions Icy Vision Rev2: http://www.gelidsolutions.com/products/index.php?lid=1&cid=17&id=52
4. Xigmatek BiFrost 2: http://www.xigmatek.com/product.php?productid=124
Another member here (ssjwizard) said that he has a friend with the Gelid cooler and the guy was happy with it.
My concerns with all of these coolers is overall height. I have an older Asus motherboard that has 62mm on the center to center distance between the card board.
More than one of the manufacturers I listed above are rather vague about the dimensions on the card. Only Arctic Cooling has blueprints on their site showing actual dimensions, but unfortunately they don't have the total height dimension for their Twin Turbo II (I have e-mailed them asking for it).
Does anyone else have any real world experiences with these coolers that they can comment on? I can easily Google "<model number> cooler review" and find articles out there, but even they are vague about dimensions to a certain extent.
Thanks in advance for any insight lent.
-Abe