I reviewed this thing today for OCPulse. What a heatsink! Maintained a 57ºC load on my OC'd GTS 640.
The thing looks sick too.
Review Link: http://www.overclockerspulse.com/har...xe-vga-cooler/I tested the BattleAxe on my eVGA 8800GTS 640MB video card. It is overclocked to 648MHz core, 1566MHz shader and 972MHz RAM. The RAM is vModded. I compared the BattleAxe to my watercooling system. I have an independent VGA loop, consisting of a BIX 2 radiator, D-Tek Fuzion GFX block & a Swiftech MCP-655-B pump. While this may seem unfair, I think it’s fair. We all know the Xigmatek would beat stock cooling by a huge margin, so I think it’d be more interesting to see how this air cooler does when stacked up against a real watercooling setup.
To generate a load, I ran a program called RTHDRIBL v1.2. I ran this program for ten minutes, at 1680×960 with 16x mutlisampling. I used RivaTuner 2.06 to read the temperatures after I had completed the test. Room temperature was taken into account when calculating ΔT (delta temperature). ΔT is the difference between two measured temperatures. In this case, it is measured room temperature vs. measured card temperature. I chose to use the ΔT between the two because it is far more accurate than measuring the temperatures of the card with each cooling solution without factoring in the fluctuations in ambient temperature that may occur.
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