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Thermalright V-1
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CrimandEvil
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Saw it awhile back, I'm waiting for when I see someone get some stock.
Looks quite impressive.
Since in this review the V-1 cooled the 6800GT ten degrees better than the NV5, I am very interested at a comparision between the VF700 and the V-1. I currently have a VF700 on my 6800GT that has served my very well and I wonder if the V-1 could provide better cooling? My only concern would be the lack of active memory cooling, but that could be partially overcome by proper placement of a side panel fan.
Since in this review the V-1 cooled the 6800GT ten degrees better than the NV5, I am very interested at a comparision between the VF700 and the V-1. I currently have a VF700 on my 6800GT that has served my very well and I wonder if the V-1 could provide better cooling? My only concern would be the lack of active memory cooling, but that could be partially overcome by proper placement of a side panel fan.
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on my x800xtpe they did when i raised them to 580. after a bit of gaming i put my hand on the back heatsink and it was hot (not warm hot)
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Can the V-1 work in SLI on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe?
DangerIsGo said:
They will. I have 2 on my 6600gt's right now using a Premium board. You'll have to use the 15mm fans though, as you only have about 10-15mm between the bottom cards fan and the top card's sink.
As for cooling it's not so sweet. 50c idle 58c load (my zalmans were going 35c idle 48c load. I think that the rubber "frame" they give you to put around the GPU is too tall and prevents the base of the sink to make correct contact with the gpu. There seems to be some potential with these coolers if a workaround can be made. Sent a email to them (thermalright) a few days ago and have not received a response yet. I'm modding the gpu cushion as we speak.
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I'd love to see a comparison between the V-1 and the stock Leadtek 6800GT cooler.
DarkBahamut
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qbackin said:
Once again, another review that shows that NV5 'getting whooped' but they dont say what fan speed the NV5 was run at. If no software was used to set it to 100% speed, then it would be speed adjusted against the temp, and since it cools better than the stock cooler, the NV5 was probabaly running at 30% fan speed, maybe even less, while the V-1 had a 100% full speed fan.
No exactly a fair test, and 95% of reviews make this exact same mistake when reviewing the AC silencer coolers, against things like the zalman for example.
I noticed this on my X800 with a silencer, i thought the results were disapointing till i noticed the fan speed was low (even in games). After setting it to 100% (still very low noise) i knocked a good 10-12C extra off my temps. MY X800 Pro @ 16 pipes with the core set to 550MHz would load at 55C, which is pretty much exactly what the Zalman (and other coolers) get, with the added extra of the rear exhaust. Yet everyone thinks the Zalman massively out-performs the silencer due to bad reviewers missing out important facts.
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aaaahi said:
What size fans does it come with? Do they come with 15mm fans? Do you think another cuase of too high a temperature on ur 6600GT's could either be becuase of there being two of them (SLI) or becuase of a bad installation? Just throwing the ideas out there.
They come with a 15mm thick 80mm fan. It just fits. I've taken both sinks off and remounted from step one about 10 times each with the same (or worse) results. I trimmed one of the rubber surrounds today and the idle temps stayed the same but load is only 3c over idle now. Seems better. Now the cards are 50c idle 53c load. Same at stock or way overclocked. much happier now.
Oh, BTW the cards are reading the same temps by themselves or both in the system.
BenT
Oh, BTW the cards are reading the same temps by themselves or both in the system.
BenT
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what do you mean ugly? the V-1 is really nice looking.
What did you cut on the base? I also have a 6600GT (MSI) and am wondering if the V-1 will work on a 7800GTX
What did you cut on the base? I also have a 6600GT (MSI) and am wondering if the V-1 will work on a 7800GTX
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I still prefer the Zalman cooler but that is one neat piece of hardware. A better looking cooling fan would make it shweet. Dunno if I like that plain black one. Maybe a fan with some LED's to bounce light around would look better.
What's with the love affair with thermalright? This reviewer mentioned that the poor design left no cooling for the RAM chips, and actually decreased the RAM overclock from the STOCK cooler. Yet totally ignores that when grading it. So you get a bigger core OC at the cost of the RAM OC. And that is worth my $$$ and voiding my warranty for what reason? give me a break, this thing's a total ripoff.
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pigpen said:
Just picked one up and it does have ram sinks and it dropped my hot 6800gt from stock 94 load to 70 load. Pretty damn good cooler and thats without using as5.
http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1027918440&postcount=7
bottom of the first page (which has four pictures taking up a lot of room):
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With the fan removed, we can start to see more details of the V1's construction. The base portion mounts to the front or GPU side of the card, and the heat pipes curve out and around, placing the fin portion over the back side of the card. With the fan on that side, some additional cooling is provided to components on the rear of the card, such as memory chips, in some cases.
On the third page:
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However, the image below illustrate one shortcoming of the V1, at least as far as the nVidia 6800 cards are concerned. The design and placement of the base and heatpipes is such that the user will be unable to cool the memory chips on the board. With most cards, this is of only modest concern, but we were a bit worried given that even the stock cooler of the 6800GT also cools the memory, as well as most aftermarket coolers we've looked at. Only time will tell if this is truly a problem.
bottom of the first page (which has four pictures taking up a lot of room):
Quote:
With the fan removed, we can start to see more details of the V1's construction. The base portion mounts to the front or GPU side of the card, and the heat pipes curve out and around, placing the fin portion over the back side of the card. With the fan on that side, some additional cooling is provided to components on the rear of the card, such as memory chips, in some cases.
On the third page:
Quote:
However, the image below illustrate one shortcoming of the V1, at least as far as the nVidia 6800 cards are concerned. The design and placement of the base and heatpipes is such that the user will be unable to cool the memory chips on the board. With most cards, this is of only modest concern, but we were a bit worried given that even the stock cooler of the 6800GT also cools the memory, as well as most aftermarket coolers we've looked at. Only time will tell if this is truly a problem.