Thermalright's new VGA cooler, the HR-03
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Thermalright's new VGA cooler, the HR-03
According to NokyTech Thermalright is about to release a new VGA cooler, named HR-03. It has four (4) heatpipes and is to be sold as a fanless solution, altough it will allow mounting of a 92mm fan.
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Oh and although this is a dual slot solution BESIDES THE PCI-E/AGP SLOT OCCUPIED BY THE GRAPHICS CARD, adding a fan will make it a three slot solution, as you can see from the picture above.
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Oh and although this is a dual slot solution BESIDES THE PCI-E/AGP SLOT OCCUPIED BY THE GRAPHICS CARD, adding a fan will make it a three slot solution, as you can see from the picture above.
It seems to have only 30-32 fins, and the fins are a bit thick, so heavier.
Since two of the heatpipes make double contact with the fins, they distribute the heat more evenly, but efficiency of the heatpipes decreases with lenght.
I would have preferred a 6 heatpipe design, but the base would have had to be larger.
It would have been better to carry the heat to the back of the card, like the Aerocool VM-101 solution, but maybe Aerocool have some patent on this?
At least a third of the fins are beyond the area obstructed by the video card, so they would get their share of case airflow.
There is some torsion applied to the GPU die, but less than the horrible (IMHO) Aerocase Condor, I hope it's well fixed by four bolts.
Correction: I counted again and found 34 fins.
Since two of the heatpipes make double contact with the fins, they distribute the heat more evenly, but efficiency of the heatpipes decreases with lenght.
I would have preferred a 6 heatpipe design, but the base would have had to be larger.
It would have been better to carry the heat to the back of the card, like the Aerocool VM-101 solution, but maybe Aerocool have some patent on this?
At least a third of the fins are beyond the area obstructed by the video card, so they would get their share of case airflow.
There is some torsion applied to the GPU die, but less than the horrible (IMHO) Aerocase Condor, I hope it's well fixed by four bolts.
Correction: I counted again and found 34 fins.
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Hmm... I reckon that if you opened up the pci blanks at the back of the case, and mounted a nice quiet 120mm fan across the front of the GPUs, then you could duct off your SLi setup, exhaust the hot air out the back of the case, and run the whole thing surprisingly quietly.
Well, quiet for an SLi rig, anyway
Well, quiet for an SLi rig, anyway
Exactly.Bobfantastic wrote:Hmm... I reckon that if you opened up the pci blanks at the back of the case, and mounted a nice quiet 120mm fan across the front of the GPUs, then you could duct off your SLi setup, exhaust the hot air out the back of the case, and run the whole thing surprisingly quietly.
Well, quiet for an SLi rig, anyway
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the ram cooler!
Hi guys,
just a quick unrelatd question - Does anyone know where i can get ram h/sinks like in the original picture from the start of this thread?!
P.S. i was thinking of getting these sinks for my PC (X1900 crossfire edition and X1900 XTX) then enclosing them with some acrylic (with a few vents) and ducting out to a 140mm fan attached to the side of my 830 stacker! . Think this could be a possible solution to improving cooling!
Cheers, Thad
just a quick unrelatd question - Does anyone know where i can get ram h/sinks like in the original picture from the start of this thread?!
P.S. i was thinking of getting these sinks for my PC (X1900 crossfire edition and X1900 XTX) then enclosing them with some acrylic (with a few vents) and ducting out to a 140mm fan attached to the side of my 830 stacker! . Think this could be a possible solution to improving cooling!
Cheers, Thad
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previous post
by the by i meant the VGA Sinks when referring to the ducting!
Thad
Thad
Re: the ram cooler!
The CPU, DRAM, NB and video heat sinks in that photo are all Thermalright products.thadford87 wrote:Hi guys,
just a quick unrelatd question - Does anyone know where i can get ram h/sinks like in the original picture from the start of this thread?!
P.S. i was thinking of getting these sinks for my PC (X1900 crossfire edition and X1900 XTX) then enclosing them with some acrylic (with a few vents) and ducting out to a 140mm fan attached to the side of my 830 stacker! . Think this could be a possible solution to improving cooling!
Cheers, Thad
Don't bother putting VGA RAMsinks on your card. Modern video memory doesn't get hot. Ducting might be fun, but it won't improve the cooling. Invest in a better GPU heat sink instead.
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Yup, my soon to be 2 7600GT's with these babies in a P180 with the Cliped on 120mm on the drive cage, and the back slots open, should stay cool and quiet easily!Bobfantastic wrote:Hmm... I reckon that if you opened up the pci blanks at the back of the case, and mounted a nice quiet 120mm fan across the front of the GPUs, then you could duct off your SLi setup, exhaust the hot air out the back of the case, and run the whole thing surprisingly quietly.
Well, quiet for an SLi rig, anyway
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The TR HR-03 is in stock at www.pc-cooling.de at 45 euros.
Just as a sidenote, the Scythe Ninja 1100 plus Rev.B is too in stock at 40 euros.
Just as a sidenote, the Scythe Ninja 1100 plus Rev.B is too in stock at 40 euros.
Here is a link to the Thermalright HR-03 + Papst 92 mm U Silent (1,150 rpm):
http://www.pc-cooling.de/en/VGA-Chipset ... 1b1978#top
http://www.pc-cooling.de/en/VGA-Chipset ... 1b1978#top
Installed it today and I'm getting some really good temps running it just on the case fans (no mounted fan). Seeing at some 5 degrees C lower compared to the noisy stock cooler.
I had to loose the silicon fram for the GPU though that comes with the cooler as it made the gpu block (shiny!!) to have bad contact to the gpu.
I had to loose the silicon fram for the GPU though that comes with the cooler as it made the gpu block (shiny!!) to have bad contact to the gpu.
Official website:
http://www.thermalright.com/a_news/main_news_hr03.htm
http://www.thermalright.com/a_news/main_news_hr03.htm
Well I forgot to mention that possibility...Tephras wrote:As shown in the picture in the first post of this thread the cooler can be mounted with the fins on the other side of the VGA, so there should be no problem to put a SLI bridge between the cards.
Still, that's not a good solution either. It will only reduce amount of combinations you can use the cooler, which gives a smaller chance that the remaining free slots actually are the ones you need (PCI vs. PCIe).
Well it's the best performer I've had. In my case it's in passive mode and beats the Vm-102, but the enviroment might not have been the same at the two tests.
IMHO it will be hard to keep up with when ducted and fan on the HDD cage with the cooler hanging under the card blowing out the pci-openings. The Vm has a much smaller top heatsink with its fins in the rÃght direction so when active the Hr must beat it even more.
The build quality is amazing it's really sexy and shiny.
The engineers at Themalright have been listening to my prayers.
IMHO it will be hard to keep up with when ducted and fan on the HDD cage with the cooler hanging under the card blowing out the pci-openings. The Vm has a much smaller top heatsink with its fins in the rÃght direction so when active the Hr must beat it even more.
The build quality is amazing it's really sexy and shiny.
The engineers at Themalright have been listening to my prayers.
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My point was that if that's the only way of using it you may end up without the slots you need, just because Thermalright forgot to make room for the bridge. I hope I'm wrong.Bobfantastic wrote:With one of these above and one below the graphics cards, you could use passive SLi on a motherboard that doesnt have two slots between the cards (their example above does).
Yes, in your example.Bobfantastic wrote:And there'd definitely be no problem plugging in the SLi bridge either, the coolers would both be out of the way.
But what about the setup in the pic? It's a bit strange that Thermalright have a pic showing how it works, but it's not fully assembled (no bridge).
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They appear to be using two different models of card as well- the differences in the position of the cooler and the VRM capacitors are making me wonder whether their example shows an SLi system, or whether they've just put two test cards into the same motherboard to save time.
With the difference in length between the cards, I'd reckon that the top card is something like a 7950GT, and the bottom card a 7900xx or something along those lines.
Anyway, if Thermalright did somehow make a massive mistake and produced a cooler that would severly limit its own usefulness, (and judging by their previous products that seems pretty unlikely) it would be trivial to make up some double-sided-PCB extenders to stretch over the coolers. If you're that short of slots on your motherboard, you might need to reconsider using two graphics cards, each with a massive cooler, anyway.
With the difference in length between the cards, I'd reckon that the top card is something like a 7950GT, and the bottom card a 7900xx or something along those lines.
Anyway, if Thermalright did somehow make a massive mistake and produced a cooler that would severly limit its own usefulness, (and judging by their previous products that seems pretty unlikely) it would be trivial to make up some double-sided-PCB extenders to stretch over the coolers. If you're that short of slots on your motherboard, you might need to reconsider using two graphics cards, each with a massive cooler, anyway.