Installation of The Card Cooler XT is just as
easy as the original Card Cooler. Just line up the unit with the screw holes for
the AGP card and the second lower PCI slot then screw it on. Plug in the power
and you're done.
As you can see from the above photo, The Card
Cooler XT is just plain huge! It almost covers up the entire motherboard. The
lower fan cools your cards and the upper fan provides additional cooling for
your CPU.
And cool it does! With The Card Cooler XT
installed, the case temp of the computer dropped a full 10 degrees. The nice
thing about all this performance is it doesn't come at the cost of noise. The
twin fan remain very quiet during the test. As a matter of fact, the 60mm YS
Tech fan on the Alpha cooler was louder.
This is not to say there is no down side to
The Card Cooler XT. The first problem is the size. The Card Cooler XT is too big
for some smaller cases that position their power supply over the motherboard.
You must either remove the top fan or use the original card cooler. Another down
side to The Card Cooler XT is that you have to run it with the case cover off to
get maximum effect. This is why the unit comes with protective metal grills.
However, If you put the case cover back on, the metal grills of The Card Cooler
XT hits the case cover on our case. This reduce the cooling effect quite a bit.
Then again, some people would not consider this a down side. With the totally
wicked looks of The Card Cooler XT, why would you want to hide it?
Priced at $34, The Card Cooler XT is a great
value. It will cost you at least that much or more to do it yourself. And after
you have, you may wish you had just order The Card Cooler XT from the very
beginning. You can't get much better cooling for all your components than The
Card Cooler XT.
The Goods
The Bads
Rating:
9/10
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