New VGA cooler features modular cooling plates to make it fit a variety of graphics cards
Top British retailer and high-spec PC builder, Vadim, has just introduced two new waterblocks to its Blastflow range today - the Siberian Rev2 VGA Block and the Tidal Skulltrail SB Block.The new VGA block is made from CNC-milled copper with a 5mm acrylic cover, and it’s thin enough to ensure that your graphics card still only takes up a single slot. Vadim says that the block is ‘compatible with the majority of the single GPU high end cards,’ although there are issues with GeForce 7950GX2 and ATI Radeon HD 3870X2 cards. However, you can simply use two waterblocks to cool the former.
As with Vadim’s previous graphics card waterblocks, the new VGA block uses Vadim’s patented universal modular system, and just requires a replaceable cooling plate in order to fit various different graphics cards. Plus, Vadim says that you can use it just to cool the GPU if a specific plate for your card isn’t available.
However, the cooling plate offers a major benefit in that it extends the block to cool the VRMs and memory too. Vadim currently has plates for GeForce 8800 GTX, Ultra, GT and GTS cards, as well as Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 cards. The idea is that most of the cooling power is expended on the GPU, and less for the RAM and VRMs, which Vadim calls ‘intelligent distribution of the cooling power.’ We’ve yet to put the block to the test, but Vadim claims that it has ‘a cooling advantage of up to 20°C on load when compared to the competition.’
Meanwhile, the Tidal Skulltrail SB Block is made to cool the Southbridge and SLI bridges on Skulltrail motherboards, and is made from 3mm copper with 8mm acrylic
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