I made a little review of Zalman's new cooler for Radeon HD 58xx-family!
Zalman VF3000A!
Box of VF3000A
..and inside of the box i found these:
VF3000A itself!
Back of the cooler, 120 aluminum fins and pure copper bottom.
Mirror polished bottom!
Big vrm-sink! It works very well also!
Cooler installed on Radeon HD 5870.
Components:
- VF3000A
- VGA RAM Heatsink
- Thermal Grease (ZM-STG2M)
- Rubber Rings
- PVC Washers
- Fixing Nuts
- Springs
- Nipples
- FET Heatsink
- Rubber Washers
- Fixing Pins
- FAN MATE 2
- FAN MATE 2 cable
- Double-sided Tape
- User’s Manual
Time to show some numbers!
Test system:
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE @ 4200MHz / 2800MHz
Noctua NH-D14
Asus Crosshair IV Formula
Corsair Dominator GT @ 6-6-6-18 1T 1600MHz
Corsair HX1000W
Samsung F1 750Gb
Samsung DVD-RW USB2
Dimastech Bench/Test Table Hard V2.5 Inox
BenQ G2411HD
Windows 7
Ati Radeon HD 5870 @ stock and oc'd to 1000MHz 1.25v core and 1275MHz for mem!
Results:
Those are average value's of GPU Temp #1,2 and 3 and VDDC Phase #1,2,3 and 4.
Difference of those were max 4°C and 5°C. Ambient temp was around 23-24°C.
GPU-Z screens:
Stalker:
GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z
Unigine Heaven 2.0:
GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z
MSI Kombustor:
GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z
Fans are little too loud when running at 100% speed, after reducing speed to 70% i couldnt here those back of those Xigmatec fans!
I must say this cooler was better than i thought, price/quality value is very good on this one, costed "only" 45€!
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