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8th March 2004, 20:52
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| [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002
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 |  Graphic Card Cooler roundup  Quote:
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8th March 2004, 21:34
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| great review, is it possible to mention the estimated price of the products? in the end, for most people it doesn't come down to a performance difference of a few degrees between cooler A and B, it comes down to the ease of installation, pricing and availability IMO the VGA silencer is the all-around winner: you can get it for under 20€ (under 20$), it's easy to install, it lowers the case temperature (hot air is blown out of the case) while other cards raise the case temperature. and last but not least: with some casecooling it's the best performer out there  |
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8th March 2004, 21:37
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| I wanted to include price estimate, but the coolers vary too much in price. I've seen the 80C-HP for as low as 20, and as high as 35 euro... maybe i should include a prijswatch.be link?
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8th March 2004, 21:39
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 | prijswatch.be and pricegabber.com maybe for our international readers? Great piece of writing, great pictures, awesome testing, good conclusion.. you are truly the 
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8th March 2004, 21:42
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8th March 2004, 23:59
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| super review  , and now sell me that arctic silent cooler :grin:
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9th March 2004, 09:36
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| Very good review indeed, I just wish you issued it 2 weeks earlier: I won't have bought the Giant 2 !! lol Seriously, in the beginning of the test you measure the noise level of the Giant2 using either no fan, the opt. fan in 5V and the fan in 12V. But in the rest of the test you never tell wether the fan is spinning at 5 or 12 V... Could you be a bit more precise please next time ?? An indication of wether the passive solutions enter or not in a Shuttle-like mini-PC would have been great too !! |
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9th March 2004, 13:16
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| The Giant 2 does not come with a 5V/12V adapter, so it's only tested at 0/12V, but not 5V. You're mixing it up with the zalman 80C-HP + opt fan, which comes with a 5V/12V molex split, hence it's tested at 0/5/12V. It's hard to tell whether the passive coolers will be good enough for mini-PC's. The arctic cooling vga silencer would be great, but you'll need a spare pci slot next to your vga port.
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9th March 2004, 15:44
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| Hi Just wondering if the Artic Cooling VGA Silencer can be used on the geForce FX 59xx platform? Great review by the way, keep up the good work! |
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9th March 2004, 15:46
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| RichyB, is that arctic cooling vga silencer available in .be?
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