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Zalman VF3000A review

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I made a little review of Zalman's new cooler for Radeon HD 58xx-family!
Zalman VF3000A!

Box of VF3000A


..and inside of the box i found these:


VF3000A itself!


Back of the cooler, 120 aluminium fins and pure copper bottom.


Mirror polished bottom!


Big vrm-sink! It works very well also!


Cooler installed on Radeon HD 5870.


Components:
- VF3000A
- VGA RAM Heatsink
- Thermal Grease (ZM-STG2M)
- Rubber Rings
- PVC Washers
- Fixing Nuts
- Springs
- Nipples
- FET Heatsink
- Rubber Washers
- Fixing Pins
- FAN MATE 2
- FAN MATE 2 cable
- Double-sided Tape
- User’s Manua



Time to show some numbers!

Test system:
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE @ 4200MHz / 2800MHz
Noctua NH-D14
Asus Crosshair IV Formula
Corsair Dominator GT @ 6-6-6-18 1T 1600MHz
Corsair HX1000W
Samsung F1 750Gb
Samsung DVD-RW USB2
Dimastech Bench/Test Table Hard V2.5 Inox
BenQ G2411HD
Windows 7

Ati Radeon HD 5870 @ stock and oc'd to 1000MHz 1.25v core and 1275MHz for mem!


Results:



Those are average value's of GPU Temp #1,2 and 3 and VDDC Phase # 1,2,3 and 4.
Difference of those were max 4°C and 5°C. Ambient temp was around 23-24°C.

GPU-Z screens:

Stalker:
GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z

Unigine Heaven 2.0:
GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z

MSI Kombustor:
GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z GPU-Z

Fans are little too loud when running at 100% speed, after reducing speed to 70% i couldnt here those back of those Xigmatec fans!

I must say this cooler was better than i thought, price/quality value is very good on this one, costed "only" 45€!

***Update***
Crossfire results with MSI Kombustor





GPU 1 is closer to cpu and GPU 2 is outer.

I Hope You Liked!
Edited by Asmola - 7/23/10 at 6:54am
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Great review, thanks! Also very nice results.
Only thing missing from this post is information about where to buy this
    
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Originally Posted by zefs View Post
Great review, thanks! Also very nice results.
Only thing missing from this post is information about where to buy this
For the US: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...Ltd-_-35118061

Looks good, especially on the VGA side, might have to pick one of these up, can i ask what volts you were using on your OC?? Or where you using stock
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Oops, i totally forgot to tell that i was using 1.25v for 1000MHz core!
And yes, you can buy that one from newegg!
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Oops, i totally forgot to tell that i was using 1.25v for 1000MHz core!
And yes, you can buy that one from newegg!
Oooh now i'm gonna have to get one, when i run at 1.25 Volts with Stock cooling (Fan @ 45%) VRM temps hit mid 90s, and i didn't wanna go out and get a GPU cooler plus that $35 VRM-3 Cooler from Thermaltake, but it looks as if this cooler does a great job
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post #6 of 62
Looking good thanks. I wonder if it'd fit my card.
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Here some benches with 5870 feat VF3000A, 1100MHz 1.35v was undoable with 24c ambients but
1080MHz with same volts was pretty stable! Good enough i think?

3DMark Vantage


Unigine Heaven 2.0


Stone Giant


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Nice review thanks. Seems to perform very similar to my set up just I obviously have cooler vrm's.
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Needs to arrive in nz now tbh
    
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Duuude... so tempted to buy another case and get two of those coolers.
    
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