I got my regular weekend bargains email from eBuyer a couple of weeks back and saw this and couldn't resist the temptation at the price of a mere £5.95 + VAT. eBuyer have slowed their order process down in recent years, so after I changed the order slightly, it took over a week to get to me, but their stuff is cheap and they're catering increasingly for the modder/tweaker. So I take the rough with the smooth.

Here is the packaging of the cooler. It claims to fit almost all Radeon 9x00s series of cards and some GeForce 3 GTS boards. It fit my Connect 3D Radeon 9700 Pro perfectly.

The package claims the following:

Compared to the 9800 Pro stock cooler cooling to 79.6c (according to them), its high speed mode cools to 47C at the same noise level. Its low speed setting is 50% of the noise and cools to 58C. Clearly these will depend on case temps, clock speeds, brand etc. These claims aren't hard to believe either. Put a huge chunk of metal on a card and you can expect it to run a bit cooler.

The thing that drew me to this cooler, is it blows air past the massive heatsink and straight out of the back of the case. Many nVidia based cards are coming with systems like this as standard, but generally radeons get a tiny 50mm fan like mine below. It makes a hell of a noise and the fins on that heatsink are too hot to touch.

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