Size of Zalman VF700 coolers

[Flurd]

 

[Flurd]

Hi. Presently I have a micro-ATX board that has its AGP port occupied along with the 2 bottom PCI slots. I want to add a Zalman VF700 series cooler to my video card but I don't know how much space it will need. I know it is supposed to be a two-slot solution but will a PCI card in the third slot affect it at all? Any help that can be offered will be appreciated.

 

[Continuity28]

You can put another card 2 slots below the video card... as long as it isn't another video card with a Zalman cooler.

Zalman coolers have a rised back plate as well as the fan that sticks out in front, so if you have two video cards, you'll need them to be 3 slots apart.

---VIDEO CARD---
---EMPTY SLOT---
---CARD---
---VIDEO CARD---

You get it?

 

[Imarif]

I've got a VF700-Cu on my 6800GS (PCI-E) and it should be more like:

Video Card
Empty Slot
Empty Slot
Card

For best effect.

When it's:
Video Card
Empty Slot
Card
Empty Slot

The temps rise a good bit. However running it with a single PCI slot between cooler and card will be OK as long as you aren't looking for max cooling.

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: Flurd
I want to add a Zalman VF700 series cooler to my video card but I don't know how much space it will need.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=1833183

 

[Flurd]

Thanks for the help everyone. I'm going to go ahead and buy a VF-700Cu. Your comments cleared up all my worries.