Joined on 03/06/09
Quiet operation
Pros: Quiet, cools very well
Cons: Big. . . oh yeah
Overall Review: As with other reviewers, my two main points are its size and its cooling capabilitiy. I put this onto a Radeon 9800 GT card and my temps dropped a full 20 degrees C at idle and up to 35 degrees C in game. The fan is quiet. I don't hear it running. If it weren't for the temp readout, I wouldn't know it was running at all. The heatsink is quite thick. I've lost the ability to utilize the unused PCI slots in my tower, but I'm okay with that. The trickiest part of the installation for me was putting on the double-sided sticky tape to hold the stand-offs in place on the mounting plate. Tweezers would have been helpful had I thought of that before getting the tiny rings stuck to my fingers. Make sure you have thermal compound on hand. It took me a couple of tries before I successfully aligned and attached the cooler to the card and so the preloaded compound got mucked up. Overall, I am very pleased so far.