Zalman VF1000-LED Quad Heatpipe VGA Cooler Ultra

Innovative design

Zalman’s VF1000-LED VGA cooler is without a doubt their best yet. It boasts many features which could possibly make it the best graphics card cooler ever to grace our website. As you can see, it benefits from a unique and striking design. The surface area of the heatsink has been maximised without compromising compatibility with either the video card itself, or the components around it.

It 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.

Zalman VF1000-LED

The VF1000-LED comes with eight RAM heatsinks which can be attached to the memory chips on your graphics card, ensuring that they are cooled safely. These are not needed when fitting the product to an nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS*/GTX/ULTRA cards; the ZM-RHS88 heatsink should be purchased instead (see below). The VF1000-LED 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 VF1000 is easily capable of cooling all compatible graphics cards currently on the market.

Compatibility

The VF1000-LED is compatible with virtually all video cards which have original heatsink mounting holes around their GPU. However, they are 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 9800 and 8800 series you may require additional heatsinks to cool the FET, RAM, MOSFET and HSI chips. To do so we recommend purchasing Scythe’s VGA Chip Heatsinks to provide the extra cooling that maybe required.

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