GTX360 or PA120.3 ? which 1 to buy ?

[masaville]

Thermochill supports this board and vise versa, so any opinions on who is better will be bias. I have never used the PA120.3 but I have a GTX360 and it gets better temps than any PA120.3 with the same setup (E6600+8800GTX) that I have seen on this board.

Bottom line, find your own facts, don't trust what people say here. That's what I did and i'm glad that I did

( Don't bother flaming, I won't read it )

I have a PA120.3 and a GTX 480. I've tried them both on my E6700 and 8800GTX in SLI. Although we aren't comparing apples to apples here (I don't have a GTX 360) the 480 beats the 120.3 hands down, no contest. If you're cooling a rig with dual 8800s and really want to get your temps down definitely go with 480 as the 120.3 does a mediocre job on that configuration. If you have a single 8800 it will probably be plenty, but not for SLI rigs.

Then again it depends what temps you're looking for. On the aforementioned hardware with no overclock I got temps up to 61c on the GPUs under load and it raised ambient room temps from around 21 to 25/26. On the 480 the gpu load temps would typically remain around 55c. There was an overall increase in CPU and MB temps as well, probably because of the hotter GPUs. Idle temps were a few degrees higher on the 120.3. Having that extra 120 on the end makes a difference with dual 8800s....would like to see a PA120.4 heh.