Dracula VGA coolers are compatible with
most high-end graphics card today, including a few cards in GeForce GTX 500
series of Nvidia and AMD's Radeon 6900 series. With 2 holder frame offer 7
different mounting holes, it has added support for multiple GPUs. We checked
Dracula and found it has very impressive performance.
As GPU cooler, it is a big unit. Cooling
device is 10 inches long and may extend beyond the graphics board, so make sure
the chassis provides more space around the PEG slot where you installed the
graphics card. For example, we installed Dracula on AMD Radeon HD 6970 (1 card
is approximately 5.10 inch long) and the GPU is located near the PCB, Dracula
extend over PCB about half of an inch. High heat dissipation, so you will need
to spend three expansion slots for it in the case.
Cooling equipment Dracula looks like what
you’ll see with high-end GPU heat sink, because there are 6 copper heat sinks
and 2 arrays of aluminum foil. The hard chromium-plated grille and will not
bend easily. To cool Dracula, Logisys includes a fan bracket that you install
into an empty expansion slot. Fan bracket can hold 3 140mm fans or 4 120mm fans
(fan does not supplied), and you can mount the fan in parallel and
perpendicular to the GPU. We have installed 2 140mm fans in parallel with the
GPU, as well as a 140mm fan at right angles to push hot air out through the
mesh panel at chassis side.
Logisys also includes 4 types of cooling
equipments to cool the VRM and GDDR on your GPU, 2 devices with small grilles
(6 narrow and 9 square), 18 high square radiator grilles, and a long device
with a radiator grille. We used 8 square cooling equipment, high grille, as
well as the heat sink comes with.
When you take all components out of the box
and find the components that fit GPU, it is easy to install Dracula. The memory
heat sink device requires a little bit of thermal paste and pressure to rub it.
The GPU heatsink installation includes the installation of suitable bracket and
screw the bolt into the cooling device. Then just slide the bolts through 4
holes in the PCB screws of the graphics card and lock heatsink into place using
the spring nuts come with. After you install the graphics cards into the
chassis, you can add the fan bracket and install the needed fans to fit the
chassis cooling.
We tested the Dracula on Radeon HD 6970 by
running Unigine Heaven at the highest setting and using Real Temp to monitor
GPU temperature. With the available cooling, the temperature rose to 86 degrees
C, and it reached 44 degrees C in idle mode. With a 140mm installed fan,
Dracula 6970 reduce the temperature to 62 degrees C under load and 32 degrees C
in idle mode. Next, we performed tests with 2 fans set square to the GPU,
Radeon 6970 reach to 66 degrees C under load and 34 degrees C at idle. With
just a fan, the temperature is 70 degrees C under load and 34 degrees C at
idle.
As you can see, Dracula VGA Cooler can
reduce temperatures compared to the available cooling equipment. Performance
makes it ideal for people who are trying to overclock GPU or improve its
long-term stability.
Dracula VGA Cooler
$79,99
Logisys - www.elogisys.com
Specifications: Dimensions: 1.7 x 10 x 3.9 inches (HxWxD); material: copper
nickel (heat pipes), aluminum nickel (grille); fan: 3 140mm fan or 4 120mm
fan over fan bracket.
