I wanted to get a nice VGA cooler for my super hot 6800GT. I had Thermalright V1-Ultra and Zalman VF900 in mind at first (not a fan of Artic Silencers). The VF900 is not yet released and the V1-Ultra cost a bomb, about RM180 to RM200 if you can find it. So i went scouting around LYN and saw a guy selling this, Sytrin KuFormula VF1 Plus and it looked pretty interesting. And got myself one It comes with a cross-flow fan and a tri-speed-controller Pretty powerful and not too noisy. Rated at 32db. The heatsink has 2 heat-pipes, kinda decent It doesn't have a finishing that i hoped for (sorry for the blurry picture), not as good as Thermalright's but definitely better than my previous Artic Silencer NV5. I had no problem what so ever on assembling the fan to it's speed controller but, it wasn't pleasant for me when it comes to mounting the heatsink to my card. The screws they provided were bumped headed screws and it prevents the base of the heatsink from touching the core. The screws were knocking onto the square metal thing around the core, at the area where i marked. I tried finding other screws in my drawer hoping to get a pair that fits but to no avail. It's either that the head is still to bumpy or the screws are too small. Then i noticed that my AcBel PSU has flat-headed screws on it, so i tried using those screws hoping that they fit and guess what? They do! I was so so glad that they fit in perfectly since the screws now do not have any contact whatsoever onto the square metal bracket anymore. The result: Stock idle: 66° Celcius Stock load: 79° Celcius VF1 idle: 53° Celcius VF1 load: 59° Celcius I tested the loading temp by running Guild Wars and 3dMark05 I'm satisfied with the product overall but hated alot bout that silly incompatible screws. I'll be sending an email to them later today regarding bout that issue.
OCIA review of the same cooler: http://www.ocia.net/reviews/sytrinvf1/page1.shtml Better than the Thermalright V1
Hey, if any of you KL residents have time, can you help me find out more about this cooler? I think it may be worth doing a bulk order since it's hardly available anywhere else in the world. Price and availability would be good. Thanks a lot
Thanks for the info, but at that price it's not going to be worthwhile. Might as well get a VF900 or something.
anyway i ordered 1 VF1 plus. something strange wif my 6600gt... rivatuner shows idle temps of 66 degrees, and a high of 124 degrees while playing oblivion. that said, whenever i play newer games like nfsmw or oblivion, my pc will pause for a few minutes, then return back to normal. happens to some online games (flyff and the golf one). isit cause of the heat? or some driver/hardware conflict? quake 3 doesnt hang on me though, nor does cs1.6
Looks like serious heat issue. Did you check if the heatsink is hot? If it's not, then there's something wrong with the contact.
yea the heatsink is pretty hot. hopefully the new cooler will solve my problems. btw in the nvidia tab, it shows max agp for OS to be 2x, whereas the rest (gpu,chipset,optimal) to be 8x. is this normal? i thought it should be 8x for all
