hey everyone i have a ATI RADEON X 850 PRO with a ZALMAN VF900 CU. I want some more air circulation down in that area since all my fans are circualting air right above the card and nothing below. Does anyone have The ANTEC VCOOl. And if so how did it work for u and did it make a difference. I have read reivews on this but every review there was. They only had stock heatsinks on the gpu. So im wondering if this would even help my ZALMAN VF900CU.

Quote: Originally Posted by bikeboy541 hey everyone i have a ATI RADEON X 850 PRO with a ZALMAN VF900 CU. I want some more air circulation down in that area since all my fans are circualting air right above the card and nothing below. Does anyone have The ANTEC VCOOl. And if so how did it work for u and did it make a difference. I have read reivews on this but every review there was. They only had stock heatsinks on the gpu. So im wondering if this would even help my ZALMAN VF900CU.

i have the blue one .... ( yes, there's a black non-clear version)
right under my gtx ( stock cooler ) and honestly i did see a couple of degrees drop on its temp ....

k im getting the blue one with leds. So does it really pump out enough air to make a difference. i wotn be putting it right up against the video card like i have seen i will be putting it near bottom of case. I just want somthing to move air up from the bottom.

Quote: Originally Posted by bikeboy541 k im getting the blue one with leds. So does it really pump out enough air to make a difference. i wotn be putting it right up against the video card like i have seen i will be putting it near bottom of case. I just want somthing to move air up from the bottom.

yup, thats the same one i have ... the one with the blue leds
but i do have it right next to the card so that it blows directly into the vid car fan ....
i dont know if it will "vent" but it will sure move air inside the case, just make sure you dont remove the extension that comes with it so that it centers the air inside the case ... i took mine off to aling it properly but for the reazon you're getting it, is better of leaving it as is ... plus, is only 20$

k i installed all fine and everything. But i was feeling air between 2 cards and id id one of the dumbest things ive ever done. My Zalman heatsink blade was spinning and cuaght my finger nail breaking one of the blades off. IM wondering if this will hurt the fan down the road. THe thing is now im getting better temperate and more rpm lol. And the fan isnt off balance at all since it is so light.

Quote: Originally Posted by bikeboy541 k i installed all fine and everything. But i was feeling air between 2 cards and id id one of the dumbest things ive ever done. My Zalman heatsink blade was spinning and cuaght my finger nail breaking one of the blades off. IM wondering if this will hurt the fan down the road. THe thing is now im getting better temperate and more rpm lol. And the fan isnt off balance at all since it is so light.

this is quite odd .... for what i've read in this forums before,.... when someone happens to break a fan blade ussually the temps worsen ..... causing the need to replace the fan .... but hey , of is working fine i'd probably just leave it as is ( unless one of the more experienced users wants to shed some light ??? )

im not to worried espeically since i just added the antec v cool. So i no that will deffintly help. I still feel like an idiot for doing it. Especially since i jsut put that new heatsink on less then a week ago. O well accidents happen im just glad this accident didnt cost me any money.

It has to be causing some balance issue wether you see it or not. Just make sure your using your temp monitoring software and have the allarm set. It may run forever like that or it may burn a bearing after some use. Good luck!

yes now that i feel around my case and on video card ther is a noticable vibration. So i turned the fan down to 1600 rpm and the vibration goes away. I downloaded monitoring software and alarm. And even if that fan fails i still have the ANTEC VCOOL running below it full speed. And there is no difference wen i run the gpu heatsink on high rpm or low rpm, it still stays at same temperature. So im going to leave the gpu heatsink fan as low as it can go and ANTEC VCOOL AS HIGH as it can go that should even it out.

I figured there would be some vibes. That's never good for the card. Good job in checking it out and resetting the rpm's. Glad I was able to have something useful to say for once. Have a good one Bro! By the way, when ya gonna start folding?

lol man im still a noob wit comp talk i dont really no wat folding means. Im guessing it means overclocking.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

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