Thermaltake sucks.
Thats helpfull! Have you tried the schooner? What temps did you get?
The thing with Thermatake is that they do make some good products, and they do make some crocks as well. Depending on where you live in the world the price of TT stuff can be dramatically cheaper which can tip the balance dramatically in their favour.
My brother used the schooner in his system to very good effect up untill recently. Not unfortunately with the x800 so not sure how usefull this info will be.
Things to note.
Pros
It works.
It's silent
Here in the UK its very available and dramatically cheaper than the Zalman equivelant.
Cons
Its fiddly to fit. Though not overly so. Takes about 10-20 minutes to fit. You need a precision screwdriver for the task.
It leaves a protrusion at the back of the case. If your moving the case around a lot this may be a consideration
Different cases have different gaps for PCI back plates. My Brother origionally had a coolermaster case that wouldn't allow the external rad to fit through, This meant he had to part assemble the cooler outside and complete it inside the case. See point 1 and double it. In his Nexus Breeze case he had no such problem.
It can interfere with your plans for aiflow in the case. It leaves a gap in the case at the PCI bay. This is no biggie as there are various ways around it. Ghetto wise you can tape it up or use foam. If you really wanted to you could drill a PCI blank for the heatpipes to pass through and close the gap that way.
Otherwise I wouldn't knock the product, Its one of several offerings from TT that are often overlooked here thanks to the herd mentality.
With the deepest respect Mars I think you are doing users here a diservice when you make blanket comments like that on this forum. You are not the only one that does it. It leaves users quite often hunting for rarer more expensive products than they necessarily need. Great they may get a couple of degrees better performance from the more expensive product, but that may mean delaying the next phase of silencing unneccesarily.
