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Topic: Cooling Devices
Product:
AeroCool Video Magic (VM-102) Fanless VGA
Cooler
Provided By:
AeroCool US
Reviewer: K Elliott
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The first
step towards installing the
AeroCool VM-102 AKA Video Magic
Cooler is to attach a small
slotted metal plate over the
contact block and attach it with
four M3X6 screws. This
will be the anchor point for the
swing arms that with attach the
contact block directly to your
video card via two extension
arms.
The two
extension arms are held in place
with a single small screw that
passes through the slot on the
metal plate we just attached to
the contact plate. When
attaching the extension arms
remember to not tighten to them
down, since you need to position
the contact block squarely on
the GPU before tightening them
completely. |
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The next step requires you to
apply a generous amount of
thermal past to the two grooves
that run side-by-side on what
will become the front plate of
the VM-102. These grooves
are where the heatpipes will be
fastens against the front plate
of the VM-102 thus turning it
into one very large heatsink.
I'm sure you're wondering how
the front plate is attached to
contact block and I'm just about
to show you. |
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If you look
back at the first picture of the
contact block you can see that
it has four holes equally spaced
around the corners of the block.
Once you have the heatsink and
heatpipes attached to the front
plate of VM102, it then just
becomes matter of attaching the
front plate to the contact block
with four small screws.
If you would like to view the
complete instruction for the
installation of the VM-102
please use this
LINK |
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Test System Specifications |
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Processor: |
Intel P4/3.2 GHz |
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Clock Speed: |
3.5 GHz |
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Motherboard: |
Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo-A |
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Video Card: |
Radeon X300 |
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Heatsink: |
(Being Tested) |
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Memory: |
Geil PC2-5300 (DDR2) |
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Hard Drive: |
80 GB WD Special Ed |
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Power Supply: |
AeroCool Turbine Power |
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Case: |
AeroCool CoolView |
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Software: |
Windows
XP 2600 +
SP2 |
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To record
the temperature changes
between the the various
configurations we used on
the Radeon X300 video card
we taped a sensor probe from
our
AeroCool CoolPanel˛
to rear of the X300 directly
behind the GPU. This
is the exact same process we
used to measure the
temperatures for both the
passive cooled stock video
card as well as the X300
with Titan Eagle VGA cooler
attached to it.
To create
what we consider a balanced
load we created a script for
Benchemall that ran demos of
Halo Evolved, Far Cry, Half
Life 2 and Doom 3.
These are the same
benchmarks that we ran on
the Titan Eagle, thus giving
us a fan based heat sink to
compare it against. |
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