Zalman VF900-CU review

Zalman VF900-CU could be considered a rather uninteresting product as it is just a cooler for your graphics card. Even if may not sound very exotic or even necessary to many there are overclockers and enthusiasts who can gain much from changing graphics card cooler. The cards of today are more advanced and develop more heat than ever before and considering the manufacturers’ tight stock coolers there is usually something that has to be sacrificed. Most cards of any caliber have coolers that get pretty hot but still makes way too much noise, it’s not uncommon that the graphics card cooler is the noisiest component of the computer. Zalman is known for its effective and quiet processor coolers but we’ve taken a look at one of its creations for the graphics card market to see how it handles its task of keeping the graphics card both cool and quiet.

“As the performance improve the heat and power consumption increase as well, this has resulted in the fact that the manufacturers have had to fit the cards with bigger and bigger coolers. If you want to squeeze that little extra out of your card the stock cooling is in many cases not enough.”

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