Scythe Setsugen GPU air cooler

[thilanliyan]

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/video/video-card-cooling-scythe-setsugen-offical/

Looks pretty cool...i wonder if it will perform well.

 

[Fayd]

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/video/video-card-cooling-scythe-setsugen-offical/

Looks pretty cool...i wonder if it will perform well.

looks function wise about on par with the accelero S1/S2... except using a smaller profile than if you mount a fan on the accelero.

i'd get one. i'm gonna be getting a 5770 soon to replace my current 3870. the accel S1 doesnt support the 5770, unfortunately. so it looks like this will fit the bill.

 

[qazwsxokmijn]

It works quite crap on the 4890, more or less on par with its stock cooler. I believe under Furmark the memory IO ran even hotter than stock cooling. The core itself was pretty much as hot as with stock cooling.

Still, that was for 4890 only though as I was using that as to predict the cooler's cooling capacity for my 5870, which by the looks of it is pretty crap right now.

 

[God Mode]

It works quite crap on the 4890, more or less on par with its stock cooler. I believe under Furmark the memory IO ran even hotter than stock cooling. The core itself was pretty much as hot as with stock cooling.

Still, that was for 4890 only though as I was using that as to predict the cooler's cooling capacity for my 5870, which by the looks of it is pretty crap right now.

Is it more silent at least? Considering that typical prices are around $30-50, I personally notice a lot of aftermarket coolers performing like crap in comparison to stock sinks with similar design heatpipe etc. Most of them focus only on the core and you often have to hunt down and spend extra to cool the ram/vrm not to mention that some of these coolers hog up 3-3.5 slots with the video card. There is a cost/benefit ratio problem IMO.

 

[aigomorla]

My voice is lately on high end gpu cards, you cant really aftermarket it unless you take care of the PWM's on the card.

And not many GPU coolers think about PWM's now, because they were never important.

But now gpu cards can draw upwards of 300W 4870X2, so pwm cooling is very very important.

 

[qazwsxokmijn]

Is it more silent at least? Considering that typical prices are around $30-50, I personally notice a lot of aftermarket coolers performing like crap in comparison to stock sinks with similar design heatpipe etc. Most of them focus only on the core and you often have to hunt down and spend extra to cool the ram/vrm not to mention that some of these coolers hog up 3-3.5 slots with the video card. There is a cost/benefit ratio problem IMO.

Not sure if it's more silent, but from all the reviews the 5870 cooler is already pretty good anyway, a definite improvement over the the 4870 cooler, cooling wise and noise.

 

[mebiuspower]

Did anyone check out the review on this?

The arguments that it does not blow air outside of the case & doesn't cool the PWM are valid. Add the cost factor as well it might not be all that feasible...

Oh well... let me pickup a 5850 first to see how loud the stock fan is first before I decide what to do with it.

 

[Ayah]

The 5850 stock fan is epic fail for an overclocked card. Makes too much noise to keep the GPU core cool. The setsugen is much much quiet and keeps my GPU core cooler than stock cooling. Also, the little aluminum sink that comes with the setsugen is actually enough to keep the PWM cool enough.

 

[mebiuspower]

^But what if I don't overclock?

 

[Ayah]

If you don't overclock, there's no point in changing from stock. It keeps the GPU cool enough and is relatively quiet. My system is like a foot to the left of my head on a large table beside me, so when I overclocked, the stock cooler wasn't enough to keep the poor thing cool.