Zalman VF900-CU VGA Card Cooler

By member: yikes - Oct 28, 2006

Kick a$$ cooler for the price

Strengths: Super quiet, powerful cooling, easy install, good quality item, and good instruction.

Weakness: Should have included a 3 pin connector adapter or use 3 pin connector.

Just got myself an ATI X1900GT 256mb card for my 3D intensive game. Within 30 mins of playing, I got a message that the temperature had exceeded its limit and it would tune down the clock speed to protect itself. As I play on, the message continue to pop up and game became painfully slow. On top of that, under heavy load, the stock fan is very very loud. My only remedy is to open the side panel...

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the best

Strengths: quiet, easy to install, very good cooling, tons of ...

Weakness: pricy

I love this fan! Installed the fan on my 7600 GT in less than 10 minutes and the temp went down about 10c (idle) and about 20c (peak). Very satisfied and strongly recommended!

Great VGA Cooler

Strengths: Quiet and it works.

Weakness: Don't work with dells unless you buy an pin adapter. Expensive.

Lower My VGA temp by 5cs. Much more quiet than my stock cooler. Best of both worlds. Great looking. But for $50 is it worth it?. But then again, these are for $500 cards, what's another $50?

Excellent

Strengths: Cooling power, Dropped my evga overclocked 7600gt down from 58/71 (idle/100%) to 45/58... totally worth it now games dont lock up!

Weakness: The wiring is a bit obtrusive.. I think they should have sleaved teh cables with black to make them less visiable. Also copper heatsinks for the ram would be a plus.

Definitely worthwhile buy! Tons of reviews mark this as the next best thing to watercooling. I have a pci slot exhaust fan right below it so it does not add a lot of extra heat inside the case either. be prepared for up to 20C drop in temps!!

Great, Quiet Cooling

Strengths: Very quiet, very effective.

Weakness: Installation.

I replaced the stock cooler on my eVGA 7900GT (256P2N584AR), which was rather noisy, but moderately effective. The VF-900 was a little troublesome to install. I've done 2 other Zalmans before on a CPU and a GPU, but this one was difficult to tell when to stop tightening. The instructions said to tighten all 4 screws completely. I opted to stop early on all of them. The heatsink was secure and I...

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Amazing

Strengths: Quiet and eficent

Weakness: None so far- its not overly expensive like some other reviewers have noted

I've heard a lot of good things about Zalman but this GPU cooler still blew me away. With my stock cooler I was idling at 43-46 C; and getting up to about 66 C under load. With the VF-900 CU on its "silent" fan speed setting I am idling at 35 C and running at 48 C under load. The cooler makes no noticeable noise on the "silent" setting and is noticeable nut not loud on full speed.

Zalman VF900

Strengths: Easy to install. Lightweight. Dual copper heatpipes.

Weakness: A bit pricey. Fan Mate 2 is a bit obtrusive, because you have wires running out of your PC.

All copper heatpipes, smooth base and fins are indeed a great combination, at least 10C drop on temps, compared to stock cooler. Runs quiet even on max output. Fits almost all VGA cards.

Zalman VF900-CU VGA Card Cooler

Strengths: Great cooling on 7800 GTX cards. Quiet

Weakness: Costly, comes with 3 pin connector for fan and my graphics cards have 4 pin connectors. Although, the vga cooler does come with adaptors. Still, it's extra wiring.

I have two 7800 GTX cards, which ran 53C idle, and 70C full load. These have dropped the vga temps to 36C idle and 51C load. Additionally, my case temp dropped 5c and the cpu temp dropped 5c as well. They were easy to install, about 10 minutes each.

ok product, too little voltage on its lowest setting

Strengths: quiet

Weakness: may not spin up on startup on the lowest controller dial setting, it just sits there and trembles like its not getting enough voltage.

be sure to keep the original fan and heatsinks available in case your card fails and you have to send it back to the manufacturer. not having the original fan and heatsinks will void your warranty, i learned this the hard way.

Cool Cooler!

Strengths: Ease of installation, compatibility.

Weakness: None

The directions were clear and consice. I had no problems installing this item. I used it on an old Geforce Ti4600 since the stock fan was whining. Cools well, quite, and looks good too.