Thermalright HR03 plus

[adairusmc]

I am considering ordering one of these tomorrow when I order my Ultra 120 extreme, and I was just wondering if anyone here has experience with this video heatsink. I was mostly looking for side pictures of it mounted in a case, to see how many slots it takes up with a 92mm fan on it. The reviews that I have seen just show pics of the heatsink attached to the card, sitting on a table or something. No pics that I can find of this thing installed in a case.

I have a Audigy card that I would like to keep installed, and just want to see if it will fit in the bottom PCI slot with this cooler installed as well. The motherboard I have is an Asus P5N32-E SLI.

Thank you for any input.

 

[adairusmc]

Anyone?

 

[Noubourne]

I saw a review that says it takes up 5 slots when the fan is installed.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: Noubourne
I saw a review that says it takes up 5 slots when the fan is installed.

Thank you for the reply.

I did some digging last night, and found a forum where a guy had one installed, and it left his last two slots open, one of the pics he took is Here

It looks like I can get away with using my sound card, so I went ahead and ordered one this morning.

 

[Daverino]

You can install it one of two ways. You can have the pipes go over the card, so the fins are on the opposite side of the GPU or you can install it as in the pic you have, with the fins on the same side as the GPU. This flexibility should allow you to keep a slot or two free. I know the older V1 used to support two fans, one on the base and one on the fins, and that configuration would actually take up about 5 slots.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: Daverino
You can install it one of two ways. You can have the pipes go over the card, so the fins are on the opposite side of the GPU or you can install it as in the pic you have, with the fins on the same side as the GPU. This flexibility should allow you to keep a slot or two free. I know the older V1 used to support two fans, one on the base and one on the fins, and that configuration would actually take up about 5 slots.

Thanks. I saw some pics of two of the things installed on an SLI 8800GTX setup, but they were passively cooled. I dont know if putting a fan on the fins the backwards way like that will work, since I will be installing a Ultra120 extreme as well. I guess I will find out Friday when everything arrives.

 

[subman]

This is what I did for a while - I had the HR-03 PLUS riding piggy back on the 8800 without a fan and I attached a fan to the Ultra-120 which blew air onto the HR-03 PLUS heat sink. The single 120mm fan did the job of cooling both the CPU and the 8800 card. This was not keeping CPU or 8800 temps low so I do not have my setup like in the picture any more. Difference was about 2 - 3 C.

MY HR-03 PLUS and Ultra-120 setup

 

[bfdd]

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[subman]

Originally posted by: bfddLooks pretty cool, did you try using better fan or setting it up in a push/pull?

I have a Panaflo 120 x 38 mm medium speed fan and this more or less filled in the space between the 2 heat sinks and this made a lot of air flowing noise. I did not try attaching one more fan from above pushing air onto the Ultra-120 heat sink... will try that the next time I turn the heat sink around. THANKS for this idea.

 

[adairusmc]

Well, I got this thing installed just now. I have not had a chance to check out the load temps yet, but so far it is idling at 39C. Before, with stock cooling it was running 75C idle (house stays kind of warm this time of year). Temps were taken with Everest Ultimate.BIG difference so far. I did not put a 92mm fan on it, but instead used some zip ties and got a 120mm fan on there.

Now I just gotta wait until next wednesday when the Ultra 120 extreme arrives, so it can replace my Zalman CNPS9500.

I was able to get the sound card fit in there just fine on the bottom slot, so far so good.

 

[adairusmc]

Well, I let the Nvidia Cascade demo run for about 3 hours today, and the temp just after it was done was about 50C. I would say that is a pretty good decrease. I am sold on this thing.

 

[Hauk]

Works well for GPU temps I'm sure. How about case and CPU temps, any idea where you were before vs. now?

 

[adairusmc]

CPU temp is about the same, but I am going to change the CNPS 9500 I have on the thing now with an Ultra 120 extreme next week (should be here wednesday). I don't know about the case temps, never really paid attention to that.

 

[kY]

Originally posted by: subman
This is what I did for a while - I had the HR-03 PLUS riding piggy back on the 8800 without a fan and I attached a fan to the Ultra-120 which blew air onto the HR-03 PLUS heat sink. The single 120mm fan did the job of cooling both the CPU and the 8800 card. This was not keeping CPU or 8800 temps low so I do not have my setup like in the picture any more. Difference was about 2 - 3 C.

MY HR-03 PLUS and Ultra-120 setup

subman, love to see an updated link on this, previous one is broken