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Two New Coolers for Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX or Minus 20 Degrees for the Reference (page 3)

Category: Coolers

by Sergey Lepilov

[ 03/04/2008 | 04:44 PM ]

Installation Tips

The cooler is installed quickly and easily. First you have to insert the appropriate threaded spindles into the corresponding retention holes on the cooler retention frame:

Then apply a thin layer of thermal grease to the GPU surface, install the graphics card on top of the cooler and tighten then together with spring nuts at the bottom of the graphics card PCB:

This is what ZEROtherm Hurricane HC92 Cu 8800 looks like when installed onto a GeForce 8800 GTX:

By the way, in this case you need to install the aluminum heatsink on top of the NVIO chip (the green heatsink on the photo). Besides, you have to stick small heatsinks onto the power elements and graphics memory chips.

This is what the whole thing looks like inside a system case:

As I have already mentioned before, the cooling system blocks two mainboard slots next to the graphics card. Once the graphics card is installed into the system case, all you need to do is place the fan rotation speed controller in a convenient spot, connect it to the fan and then you will be able to enjoy the four blue fan LED’s:

In conclusion I would only like to add that the recommended retail price of ZEROtherm Hurricane HC92 Cu 8800 is $39. We will check out the cooling efficiency of this solution in the corresponding section of our review. And now it is time to meet another new “extreme” cooler from Arctic Cooling.