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What do you think of when you hear the word “hurricane"? Words like wind, rain, destruction, Katrina or New Orleans? How about words like graphics cards cooler or VGA cooler? No, we didn’t think so! With so much negativity associated with the word hurricane, let’s hope ZEROtherm’s new VGA cooler doesn’t live up to its devastating namesake!
Details
The Hurricane HC92-CU consists of a full copper heatsink which is attached to the base of the cooler via four copper heatpipes. These heatpipes transfer the heat away from the GPU and into the fins where the attached 92mm fan cools everything back down. This process works very well indeed.
The blue LED fan supplied with the Hurricane is a standard 3-pin model and is designed to connect to the supplied fan controller. This controller works in a similar way to Zalman’s FANMATE2 and when connected, you can change the speed of the fan to a speed that suits you. From a noise point of view, the fan is very quiet. Its noise level starts at only 19 dBA and rises up to 40 dBA at full speed - not that you would ever need to set it to run so fast!
One feature that ZEROtherm state this cooler has, is something called 3-in-1. The “1” refers to the cooler and the 3 refers to Aerodynamic, Overclocking and Fanless. Aerodynamic is basically the cooler with the silver ducting attached. The airflow is guided in such a way that it cools virtually the whole of the graphics card. The second is Overclocking. This feature requires you to remove the silver ducting. ZEROtherm state that this will reduce the GPU temperature. This speaks for itself and should only be used with a low-end graphics card which has a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of under 50W.
Installation
ZEROtherm’s Hurricane HC-92 is an imposing VGA cooler. It is one of the largest VGA coolers in our product range with the Thermalright HR-03 being the only cooler which is larger, especially when you consider that the HR-03 still requires a fan. The Hurricane will occupy the graphics card’s adjacent expansion slot and if the silver ducting is not removed it will also prevent the next slot from being used.
Compatable Cards
nVidia Geforce 7600, 7900, 8500, 8600, 8800 series - ATI Radeon X1600, X1800, X1900, X2600 series
Incompatible Cards
nVidia Geforce 7800 AGP and 7900GX2 - ATI Radeon X2900 series
Combined Dimensions: 170 x 97 x 55 mm
Fan Dimensions: 92 x 25mm
Fan Noise Level: 19-40 dBA
Max Air Flow: 55.6 CFM
Weight: 372g
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£27.60
(32.43 inc VAT)
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