CoolViva Pro review at Xbitlabs

They make noise, too.

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Tzupy
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CoolViva Pro review at Xbitlabs

Post by Tzupy » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:57 pm

Seems quite a bit better than the VF-900, also cheaper, but bulkier:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cooler ... a-pro.html
When my 7900 GTX's stock cooler will get noisy, hopefully not very soon, I might get this one.

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Post by niels007 » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:06 pm

similarities with the Arctic Accelero series are VERY obvious!

This coolermaster:
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An old Accelero without the plastic:
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/6718 ... 004yh9.jpg


Three 'flat on the floor' heatpipes, but with seemingly less surface area on the Coolermaster. The Arctic can be had for 15 euro, seemingly making that the better deal..

It seems well worth waiting for the new Arctic coolers though, they look very suited for passive / very low airflow cooling of decent midrange cards!

/Niels

edit: URL instead of IMG.. bit of a large one :)

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Post by aztec » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:13 pm

what are the new Arctic VGA coolers?

I'm guessing they launch the same time the R600 goes out (April?). :D

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Post by niels007 » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:47 am

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=125

It wasn't *that* hard to find ;) ;)

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Post by aztec » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:50 am

ahh...the S2.

Thanks Niels...I thought it wold be some upgrade (with fan) to the X2 Series.

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