Zalman GV1000 Quad Heatpipe Extreme Gaming VGA Cooler

Innovative design

Zalman’s new GV1000 VGA cooler is without a doubt their best yet. The GV1000 boasts many features which could possibly make it the best graphics card coolers ever to grace our website. As you can see, this cooler benefits from a unique and striking design. The surface area of its heatsink has been maximised without compromising compatibility with either the video card itself, or the components around it.

The GV1000 uses four heatpipes to transfer the heat from the GPU directly to the fins. Because the fins are incredibly thin (just 0.3mm), their ability to dissipate heat has to be seen to be believed. Using one of these coolers instead of the cooler your graphics card came with will significantly reduce your card’s running temperature and increase its reliability, longevity and (if desired) overclockability.

The product comes with eight RAM heatsinks which can be attached to the memory chips on your graphics card, ensuring that they are cooled adequately. These are not needed when fitting the product to nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS*/GTX/ULTRA cards; the ZM-RHS88 heatsink should be purchased instead (see below). The GV1000 comes with a handy FANMATE2 variable fan speed controller, giving you total control over the balance of noise versus cooling. But we have found that even with its fan set to the lowest speed, the GV1000 is easily capable of cooling all compatible graphics cards currently on the market.

Compatibility

The GV1000 is compatible with virtually all video cards which have original heatsink mounting holes around their GPU. However, it is not compatible with any Matrox card, ATI’s Radeon 9550/9600, nVidia’s PCX 5 series, GeForce 7000 AGP and 6000 AGP series.

To provide compatibility with nVidia’s 8800 series cards, Zalman have designed a RAM heatsink which cools the memory, FETs and I/O chipsets found on the 8800 GTS*/GTX/ULTRA series. The ZM-RHS88 is available separately and is designed specifically as a supplementary product to the GV1000 and VF1000-LED to enable GeForce 8800 compatibility. It is not compatible with any other VGA cooler. The ZM-RHS88 is not compatible with the 8800 GT series.

If you intend to use this cooler in an SLI or Crossfire configuration then you need will require a flexible bridge because the heatpipes will obstruct the non-flexible type.

If you are going to install one of Zalman’s VGA coolers on an ATI HD3850/4850/4870 card, please consider also purchasing one of Zalman’s ZM-RHS50/70 VGA FET Heatsinks to ensure sufficient cooling of your card’s FET chips.

ZM-RHS88 Compatible with nVidia 8800 series only

ZM-RHS88 and VF1000 shown installed onto a nVidia 8800 Ultra

*PLEASE NOTE: The ZM-RHS88 is only compatible with 8800 GTS 320MB and 640MB cards. The new 512MB version is not supported.