Arctic Cooling

[joeisabigdork]

Does anyone have any experience in this heatsink? I was curious as to if it was worth buying since their other products have done relatively well for videocards.

If anyone has any links to reviews of this product it'd be great as well =D

 

[pirred908]

This video card get written about quite often. I won't be a jerk and tell you to search for it though.

The bottom line is:

The Artic Cooling VGA Silencer(Rev.3) is the best cooling for a video card aside from water.

 

[joeisabigdork]

Um...I know about the Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer (Rev.3).

I know the Arctic VGA Silencer is good, in fact I'm using it for my Radeon 9800 Pro


But...

What I was asking information/feedback on, was about the Arctic Cooling Silencer 64 TC. The Heatsink for 939 Processors.

 

[jipe]

I haven't seen any reviews in english, but here's a couple in german and danish respectively:

Tweakpc.de
Tweak.dk

In short, the installation procedure is slightly awkward and it's cooling performance falls somewhat short of the best heatsinks on the market (it seems to be pretty quiet, though). They'll probably release a second revision later that will adress these flaws - at least they did that for their excellent Socket A-heatsink

In fact they might already have done so, as I've seen a model called 'Silencer 64 Ultra' in several shops here in europe, though it hasn't appeared on their website yet. Personally I've only had good experiences with their products, especially since they tend to be priced very competetively.

(I hope this makes sense - english is not my native language...)

 

[orangat]

O/T but why do most people from Europe/Scandinavia apologise for their 'poor' English? Your English is just as good as any native speaker.

 

[joeisabigdork]

Thanks for the info on the reviews...too bad I can't read german and danish. From the charts by tweak.dk
It seems that the Zalman 7000A-Cu is a good choice.

But the problem I have is SPACE, only because I happen to be using the Radeon 9800 Pro with the Arctic cooler, and that blue thing that holds the cooler onto the video card gives me less room for bigger heatsinks for my CPU (whew...what a run-on sentence that was

Basically, I want a decent heatsink that will stay SILENT and provide better cooling than the stock heatsink.

By the way, on the tweak.dk charts for load temp, what is the '220 FSB 1.600 vcore' supposed to represent?

 

[jipe]

The '220 FSB 1.600 vcore' line shows the results when they overclocked the testsystem. As for the german review, here's a machine-translated version.

I use the Zalman 7000 myself and can certainly recommend it, as it doesn't make too much noise and also delivers good cooling performance. Make sure to pick up the AlCu version, though - it's a bit cheaper, cools almost as well as the copper version and weighs a lot less (and hence puts less stress on the motherboard).

Zalman maintains this list of compatible motherboards, which might help you.