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| | (Post a comment) » Zalman VF900-Cu ReviewSo you just bought a Radeon X1900 XT or XTX and you're looking for a high-end cooler that will do a good job of keeping your graphics card cool but will do so while running nearly silently? If so, you may want to check out Zalman's VF900-Cu. This heatsink fan unit is composed entirely of copper and has heatpipes for additional performance. OC guru Lenin22 from the forums takes it out for a spin on the X1900 XTX. See how it fares in today's review! |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Anonymous at 11:11am 08/1/2006
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This is a very important feature I didn't know about. I'm not ready
to do a direct mod like that so I'll stick with the noise of the
stock fan and a good set of headphones. Thanks for the heads up!
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Anonymous at 08:19pm 06/2/2006
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I don't have a fan connector on my mobo for this fan. Is there some
other method of powering it? I would have thought I could put a
decent graphics card in a Dell XPS 400, with a GPU fan. I've
searched, but it doesn't seem anyone else has the issue of trying to
power this fan.
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Anonymous at 10:21am 05/15/2006
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i take it this cooler will work on my x1800xt too? it's the same
board,same layout,so i would venture to guess it will work on
x1800xt's too.
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Anonymous at 03:06pm 05/9/2006
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let me guess
even attempting this will void your original manufactures warranty.
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OAKside (View my Profile) at 08:41pm 05/8/2006
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Wow, ordered one on sale from a Cali shoppe. Lowered ALL my case and
component temps, even at idle. Noticably my GPU is down Eight deg
Celcius at idle, Fifteen at load. The rest are down two to three and
more at load. Amazingly Perfect Performance, Extremely Quiet
[compared to BFGTech 7900GT stock] and Easy Installation. I <3
Zalman and it's coolers, first my 6800GT's VF700-AlCu now the
VF900-Cu. Great review, bunch of great reviews - never a negative. A
definite Grab it if you find on sale a bit.
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Cool.DK (View my Profile) at 01:12am 05/8/2006
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This is good to know. I was wondering if it would be okay to do
exactly that but I wasn't sure the graphics card would be okay with
the power needed for the VF900 (The fan is bigger so I asume it
needs more juice).
Have you experimented with putting the fan-mate in the middle? It
may be that you could exchange the better cooling with lower noise?
Looking foward to hear what you think.
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Anonymous at 05:28pm 05/7/2006
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I read through this review with great interest, anxious to see if
there would be a remark on how the cooler has to be connected to the
motherboard. But apparently this isn't considered a problem?
But wait, let me start from the beginning:
The built-in 1900XT cooler solution draws power directly from the
graphicscard itself via a small three-pin connector. This makes the
standard cooler TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED. Any owner will nod to that,
the earthshattering turbine sound fires up good when in a game. But
see where I'm going with this? By connecting the VF900-Cu to the
motherboard you lose this feature. How is that an acceptable
solution?
The problem is the connector on the graphicscard is smaller than
usual, it's pretty damned tiny infact, and you won't find a
compatible pin anywhere in the VF900 package. Now, we can all talk
about how fancy the Fanmate2 is, but since it's not
temperature-controlled you're never going to get the perfect balance
between cooling and noise.
What I ended up doing was stripping the fanmate for its standard
3-pin male connector, and snipping off the micro female pin from the
discarded 1900XT cooler. About 10 minutes and a bit of soldering
later I had a small converter-cable ready that connects the VF900-Cu
directly to the graphicscard.
And it really works.
My VF900 runs around 900-1000 RPM when idling, which on my computer
is completly inaudible (and I like to think I have a rather darn
silent computer). When playing games it'll start ticking upwards,
ending up at around a good 2000 RPMs if memory serves. By then it's
clearly audible, but just as humming really. Certainly a far cry
from the scramjet t
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Anonymous at 07:59am 05/5/2006
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Whoops, I mean 5 degrees hotter. I forgot to plug it in.
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Swaid at 06:29am 05/5/2006
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Probably full speed, as the fanmate is nothing more than a
potentiometer
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Anonymous at 12:24am 05/5/2006
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I actually just got one of these today for my XFX GF 6800GS. That
thing's stock fan was a real jet engine. I haven't used the fanmate
thingo that came with the Zalman, I just have the fan plugged
straight in, and I am now running 5 degrees cooler when idle and I
can't hear it at all.
Does anyone know what speed the fan goes at when the Fanmate is not
installed? Low, Medium or High?
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