Zalman VF900-Cu Dual Heatpipe VGA Cooler

**Doctor Feelgood**

Zalman continues to innovate in the field of high performance, low noise cooling. The VF-900Cu provided excellent cooling performance and was able to do so with absolutely no noise. Even at full speed, the cooler was quieter than the stock unit it replaced, and it kept the X800 GTO almost 10 degrees Celsius cooler! - The Review

trajik78 · Rated PG Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1

i hear this cooler performs terribly on the X1900XTX. anyway of ammending the review if you get a sample 1900XTX?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:42:08 Post Subject:

Hi... We can't go back and ammend each review based on hardware we might get later down the road. but, if I happen to get my hands on one I'll post some data on the cooling performance with the VF-900Cu.

kroton181 · Rated PG Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 1

I recently purchased 2 of these coolers with plans to run SLI on my Gigabyte MoBo. What you neglected to allow for in your SLI test was that the bolts used to attach the cooler will actually stop the fan from turning on the top card. No adjustment is possible.

This renders the vf900 cu cooler useless for SLI unless your MoBo has more than one slot between top and bottom PCI-e.

I'm thinking of putting a vf700 on the other card to see if that will work.

Just thought you'd like to know.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:16:37 Post Subject:

Ooh, you are very right... That does look like it would be close even in my pic:

http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/imageview.php?item=vf900cu&file=29.jpg

Maybe a modified nut on the back?

Thank you!

zachig · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 313

Thanks for the info. It's good to know that this VF900 ISN'T suitable for SLI configuration, altough I'm planing such soon...

Anyway, I still keep hearing different opinions (good and bad as well) on this VF900. I just know that I had the VF700-Cu installed on my previous Video Card (XFX 6600GT AGP) and it cooled it down pretty good (from 85C on load to somewhere around 56C!!!).

I'm currently using the stock cooler on my new MSI 7800GTX, but I'm thinking of replacing it soon woth the new Arctic-Cooling Accelero X1. What do you think? Is the Accelero X1 a good choise? Confused

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 16 May 2006 14:42:10 Post Subject:

zachig · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 313

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 16 May 2006 14:48:37 Post Subject:

It is the next review up. Not head-to-head with the Zalman, but it does battle other coolers on a 7800GT.

zachig · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 313