Introduction
The past few years have seen tremendous gains in the level of video card performance, as manufacturers push the envelope and develop new technologies.Unfortunately, along with those gains typically comes an unwanted byproduct- heat.Evercool, makers of a wide range of cooling products, offers a variety of VGA coolers that claim to reduce heat significantly without producing any noise.Today we�ll look at one of their offerings, the Turbo 2 Video card cooler.Read on to find out how it handles the heat.
About Evercool:
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EVERCOOL is headquartered in Taiwan and has its own factory located in Guang Dong China. This means that you can count on availability, as EVERCOOL warehouse is full of components and ready to ship goods, at all times.
Our China factory occupy approximate 30,000 meters, there are around 1000 employees. Our production line produces about 2.5 million pieces per month at present, which are manufactured in accordance with the approvals of ISO 9001, therefore you can be guaranteed your special request will be completed in the shortest amount of time. Growing numbers of happy customers such as Hewlett Packard, Acer, FIC. ….etc. can weigh our success and growth. It is rely on our steady quality, fast delivery and reasonable price.
EVERCOOL provides the very best products of the highest quality which are cost effective and incorporate the latest in technology and technical design. And backed by first class service and support.
We would like to emphasize that we put our entire strengths on the research and improvement of our innovative “PC Thermal Solutions” and ensure you that we do our best to meet the needs of our customers.
Features:
�The exculsive design of dual heat pipe with spcial welding techniques enable seamless connection between fins.
�The heat pipe can help to increase the thermal conductive efficiency.
�All in one design with easy & quickly installation. Compatiable with all High-end VGA card in the market now. .
�By using 8cm silent & high air flow fan to help reduce the temperature more quickly.
�The special fin design with fan, not only for cooling down the high temperature of VGA die, also for the other components.
�The Unique silver and brief design transpire out the high quality. It is your best choice to using in High-end VGA card.
� Specifications:
Overall Dimension : 162 x 112 x 44mm
Heatsink Dimension: 145 x 112 x 38mm
DC Fan Size: 80 x 80 x 10mm
Heatsink Material :Heat Pipe
Bearing Type : Ever Lubricate bearing type (Long life bearing)
Speed : 2000�10% RPM
Rated Voltage :12 V.DC
Weight :300 g
Application:
ATI:
RADEON 9000/9000 PRO, RADEON 9200/9200 PRO, RADEON 9500/9500 , RADEON 9600/9600 SE/9600PRO/9600XT , RADEON 9700/9700 PRO/9800 PRO/9800XT , RX300/600/800, ATI Radeon X1300 Series, ATI Radeon X1600 Series ATI Radeon X1800 Series
nVIDIA:
GeForce 4 MX 420/400/460, GeForce 4 MX 440 SE/440 8X, GeForce FX 5200/5500/5600/5700 , GeForce 4Ti 4200/4200 8X, GeForce 4Ti 4400/4600/4800 GeForce FX 5600 UL TRA/5700 UL TRA, GeForce FX 5900/5900 XT GeForce FX 5950 UL TRA, GeForce FX 6600/6600GT , GeForce 6800/6800GT GeForce 7800/7800GT
The product:
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The Evercool Turbo 2 VGA cooler comes well-packaged in a clear plastic package with the cooler prominently displayed on the front.The back provides a list of features/specs and a compatibility table.One thing that I noticed right off the bat is that the cooler isn�t compatible with some of the latest video cards such as the 7600GS, 8800GT, x1950, etc.This limits the versatility of the card; hopefully, Evercool will update their design to accommodate these new cards.
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Carefully opening the plastic packaging, we find the cooler snug inside a custom-fitted plastic insert.Along with the cooler itself, the package comes with some thermal paste, a set of screws/mounting accessories, and of course detailed instructions.One thing that was missing from this cooler that other coolers come with were RAM heatsinks, which help dissipate heat away from those ever-important RAM chips.
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The cooling module is made of copper base that interfaces with the video card GPU and a large set of Aluminum heat fins, connected by 2 copper heat-pipes.The copper base appeared to be machined-smooth and free of imperfections, and I was glad to see a plastic covering preventing scratches or oils from degrading the important conductive surface.Overall, I was impressed by the size to weight ratio of the cooler; despite being almost as large as the video card, it weighed very little.
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There is a single fan on the cooler, with nice red blades.I was a little surprised to see that the heat pipes were routed to the side of the fan instead of directly underneath it; you would think that direct air flow would work better.The cooler is actually fairly thick; about as thick as a deck of cards.
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