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    Best Air Cooler for a 280X?

    I have been examing what the better Air Cooler for an R 280X is, I was into the Accelero mind set for a while until I got on frozencpu and saw what they had.

    So... I have narrowed it down to a few Heatsinks and did some research, the one that really caught my eye was the Logisys Dracula VC6006, I also found it at near bargain basement prices. I was about to go for it already but, I read somewhere that it might only fit on a Reference 280X where as mine is the HIS. Do you think I will be alright? Because I can get four Silverstone 141's to go with it at the price I found it at, which would be a nice setup I am speculating. Well, for Air.

    The other ones I looked at were the Accelero, obviously and the Prolimatech, Zalman, and a few others. What would you say is the absolute best Air Cooling solution for this card? Any feedback or ideas welcome. I was thinking of maybe modding a CPU Heatsink onto it but that isn't a good idea is it? I got plenty of space for what ever below the card.
    AMD Powerhouser!
    Tower: CoolerMaster Elite 371 | PSU: ThermalTake Smart M 850W
    CPU: AMD FX-8350 @ 4.6GHz on 1.4V's | GFX: HSI IceQ X2 R9 280X 3GB @ 1250MHz/1630MHz
    MOBO: M5A99FX PRO R2.0 | Mem: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 (9-9-9-24-1T)
    HDD: Primary'd: Seagate 600 Pro 240GB SSD-Slave'd: Hitachi 1TB | Media Drive: ASUS DVD-Burner
    Cooling: Tower - 1990's Old School Lasko Box Fan|CPU - CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO with (2x) Silverstone FHP-141Push and Pull|GFX - Stock|NB - Stock|SB - Stock|Mem - Stock
    Temps(in Idle/Load Key) No OC: CPU - 28c/48c|NB - 22c/24c|GPU - 28c/45c| OC'd: CPU - 30c/56c|NB - 22c/24c|GPU - 29c/54c

    http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2325886

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    Why upgrade it? The IceQ X^2 heatsink on yours is already very good. Just replace the thermal paste with some Gelid GC-Extreme or something.
    Unless you're itching for an extra 30 MHz overclock or you're up at 95c load and the thing is screaming loud there's no reason to change it.
    Last edited by BeepBeep2; 06-19-2014 at 09:31 PM.
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    It is doing pretty well as it is, I hadn't really tinkered with it til I posted this because I was looking for the optimal CPU Frequency.
    AMD Powerhouser!
    Tower: CoolerMaster Elite 371 | PSU: ThermalTake Smart M 850W
    CPU: AMD FX-8350 @ 4.6GHz on 1.4V's | GFX: HSI IceQ X2 R9 280X 3GB @ 1250MHz/1630MHz
    MOBO: M5A99FX PRO R2.0 | Mem: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 (9-9-9-24-1T)
    HDD: Primary'd: Seagate 600 Pro 240GB SSD-Slave'd: Hitachi 1TB | Media Drive: ASUS DVD-Burner
    Cooling: Tower - 1990's Old School Lasko Box Fan|CPU - CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO with (2x) Silverstone FHP-141Push and Pull|GFX - Stock|NB - Stock|SB - Stock|Mem - Stock
    Temps(in Idle/Load Key) No OC: CPU - 28c/48c|NB - 22c/24c|GPU - 28c/45c| OC'd: CPU - 30c/56c|NB - 22c/24c|GPU - 29c/54c

    http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2325886

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