Scythe Musashi Dual Fan Graphics Card Cooler Ultra

Not totally suitable for 6970 but I managed to fit it in. So far so good.

Bought this on the basis that a prior reviewer had hooked it up to an 8800 GTX. Okay an old card, but I got two of them, and they do what I need. This cooler was reasonably easy to put together. The manual is sketchy as previously noted, but once you work out what you are looking for it’s ok. Only complaint was that the heatsinks wouldn’t stick to the memory and vr chips on the card. After having a few of them fall off I pulled it all apart, cleaned off the double sided tape with ArctiClean, and then stuck them on with some Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive. All good now. Can now crank up the graphic settings and stay under 60 deg, and without creating a racket. It’s virtually silent with the controllers about 1/2 way round.

Awesome nice design of the cooler this is their first venture in gpu cooling but certainly an award winning product i ordered one from here and works like a charm the installation manuals are a bit sketchy but ok all in all a great product when installed u cant hear the fans no matter how close u r sitting to your pc and when i installed this thing i noticed almost a 20 degree drop on idle previously it was 62c on a hd4890 and now its 44c after installing and on loads it was 80-100c now 60-80c depending on average and full load and one more notice for Indian buyers only ship via ems its reliable and fast have a very bad experience with usps and ems as the service is terrible plus u cannot track it. i would have given it full stars if it only wouldn’t be for the shipping problem.

Best graphics card cooler ever! Silence is important to me, so having tried numerous other products, I was a bit apprehensive that this particular cooler would not live up to the marketing speak.

Boy, was I wrong. I can assure you all that it did. It is QUIET! The fan speed can be adjusted and it is fairly easy to install (just take your time and follow instructions). Oh, and it is BIG. The card will take over two bays.

Well recommended! I will be buying more!

Really good buy. Easy to fit to an ATI 4890 card. I would recommend using the back fitting that came with the card though instead of the plate that comes with this product, it just seems to sit better. Also it’s a shame that the fans are controlled manually by some knobs that take up another panel on the back on the computer. The fans can just be left on max though, you REALLY can’t hear them.

Fitted to a ATi HD 4890 which at idle with the fan left to auto stayed at a constant 45C in load in games with the fan still set to auto reaching peaks of 90C within a case with good airflow (Antec Twelve Hundred).

With the Musashi fitted, with fans on minimum, idle is 38C and load is 65C. With the fans on maximum the idle goes down to 35C and the load goes up to 61C. But do take in to account that even on maximum the fans are no louder than the stock fan on idle when set to auto.

This is extremely quiet and an excellent cooler.

I still need to turn it up when playing graphically intensive games but even then just a whisper. It doesn’t actually claim compatibility with my 8800GTX but Andy @ quietpc told me it would (if of a standard build) and it gives specific instructions in the paperwork. Not mentioned is that fan speed is controlled with a couple of knobs on a PCI bay plate (connected to some of the wires you can see disappearing off the photo) - not a problem for me but that means that my one card graphics setup now takes up 3 bays. As ever - brilliantly delivered within 24 hours of ordering.

This cooler is big - about 1cm longer than my Sapphire Radeon HD4870 TOXIC card. The Vapor-X cooler made an irritating whine with the card running as bought at 57c. I only just got the Scythe cooler in the case - it was so long - and it and the card take up three slots. There is a long narrow aluminium finned cooler on the Vapor-X held in by a couple of plastic clips - I kept this as there was no suitable substitute. Now the card is MAXIMUM over clocked with MINIMUM fan speed and virtually SILENT at 47c!!!!!!

When I first booted my ATI HD4870 I thought I had destroyed my rig, the noise was that sudden and loud! After that it settled into a merciless whine. This cooler found its way onto my GPU pretty sharpish. I have now overclocked it to 840 GPU clock and 1150 memory clock and the temperatures have remained insanely low. I am stunned by going flat out in unreal tournament and the GPU temp stays around 33 - 35C…One word of advice though. Attach heatsinks to the three VDDC chips behind what I believe is the memory chip - the longish chip just out from the array of squarish chips that surround the GPU itself. They are pretty small, but they are pretty important as the control the voltages for the card. The VDDC chips take a horrendous battering temperature wise (125C, anyone?), so be sure to stick heatsinks on them as well especially if you are going for an overclock. I think ‘strongly advised’ sums it up. Apart from that gap in the instruction leaflet, best 30ish quid I have spent in ages.