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Evercool turbo 2 review |
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Written by Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
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Page 3 - Tests
In order to test the Evercool Turbo 2 capabilities we used the ATI Tool's artifact test, that loads the card's core very nicely. The eason to choose precisely 8800GT for the tests was that it's still one of the most popular ones, while having a crappy stock cooler. Not only he is obscurely noisy, he is immensely ineffective. Sure in the winter the card was fine - he kept it at 50-60%, at 17-18 degrees room temperature, but now in the summer, when after a long July day the room temperature is way past 30 degrees an between 15-19 at night, the cooler was buzzing at 80%, which is VERY noisy, and the card is on the edge of overheating after a mere 15 minutes of gaming. The same problems are quite well known ti the owners of GeForce 8800GS, GeForce 9600GT, GeForce 9600GSO, Radeon HD3850 and other models of nice cards with lousy stock coolers.
- Albatron 8800GT 512MB (referent design and stock NVIDIA cooler)
- Cooler Master Mystique 631 Case
- Asus P5K-E WiFi P35
- Intel Core 2 E4500 @ 3.2GHz 8x400
- A-Data DDR800 @ 1000MHz 12-5-5-5
- GlacialPower AL 650W PSU
End here are the results.
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Honestly speaking our expectations were surpassed! The cooler was completely noiseless, unlike the buzzing stock cooler of 8800GT, and the temperature was much lower! The room temperature when measuring the results after 20 minutes under load was 27.3 degrees centigrade, meaning the card was operating at the quite acceptable 71 degrees. With the stock cooler with under 80% fan it easily goes over 90 providing ample opportunity of kill your card.
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