- Jan 20, 2004
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I am going to make this thread a little review, after DerwenArtos12's recommendation in this thread, I thought this would be the best dual slot setup for Crossfire operation.
Pics/results and installation to follow hopefully in the coming days
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EDIT 1:
Okay so I apologize for the blurry pictures but they were taken with my old 3.2MP Olympus cam, I didn't have anything else on hand. Anyway they arrived in two rather small boxes and the surface of the heatsink was rather shiny however you could see machining marks, not the best job but certainly not the worst I've seen. They came with about 9 Aluminium ramsinks, the fan clips for 80mm fan, Thermalright's own paste and the heatsink itself. Note- they did not included the Vreg Heatsink you get with the HR-03 coolers so I used the stock one that came with my Ice Q 3.
Removing the stock IceQ 3 cooling was easy enough as the GPU heatsink was removed by unscrewing the 4 screws connected to the backplate- the stock ramsink came off separately. Here is a shot of the stock cooler off and the ramsinks attached.
Installation was quite easy, mounting required 4 screws in the top and then 4 fasteners on the other side, GPU made perfect contact with the core. Note I used Arctic Cooling MX-2 instead of the Thermalright compound. The end product, note I attached 1 Sythe 80mm fan that was pictured in the first pic and 1 generic 80mm fan I had lying around.
To test I ran around the first level of Crysis for 10 minutes. Settings used were all set to medium 1920x1200 DX9 0xAA/8xAF. Core OC'd to 760/1100 on both cards,
Stock cooling Idle: 39-41c
Thermalright V2 Idle: 31-34c
Stock Cooling Load peak: 70c
Thermalright V2 Load peak: 50c
Here is Rivatuner monitoring with the V2's in Crysis.
Overall I think the V2's has done it's job admirably, 20c drop under load is excellent! I will update again to see if I can find a new Max core.
Pics/results and installation to follow hopefully in the coming days
.EDIT 1:
Okay so I apologize for the blurry pictures but they were taken with my old 3.2MP Olympus cam, I didn't have anything else on hand. Anyway they arrived in two rather small boxes and the surface of the heatsink was rather shiny however you could see machining marks, not the best job but certainly not the worst I've seen. They came with about 9 Aluminium ramsinks, the fan clips for 80mm fan, Thermalright's own paste and the heatsink itself. Note- they did not included the Vreg Heatsink you get with the HR-03 coolers so I used the stock one that came with my Ice Q 3.
Removing the stock IceQ 3 cooling was easy enough as the GPU heatsink was removed by unscrewing the 4 screws connected to the backplate- the stock ramsink came off separately. Here is a shot of the stock cooler off and the ramsinks attached.
Installation was quite easy, mounting required 4 screws in the top and then 4 fasteners on the other side, GPU made perfect contact with the core. Note I used Arctic Cooling MX-2 instead of the Thermalright compound. The end product, note I attached 1 Sythe 80mm fan that was pictured in the first pic and 1 generic 80mm fan I had lying around.
To test I ran around the first level of Crysis for 10 minutes. Settings used were all set to medium 1920x1200 DX9 0xAA/8xAF. Core OC'd to 760/1100 on both cards,
Stock cooling Idle: 39-41c
Thermalright V2 Idle: 31-34c
Stock Cooling Load peak: 70c
Thermalright V2 Load peak: 50c
Here is Rivatuner monitoring with the V2's in Crysis.
Overall I think the V2's has done it's job admirably, 20c drop under load is excellent! I will update again to see if I can find a new Max core.
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