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GPU Coolers
Thermalright and Sytrin go head-to-head.
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Intro Silence is golden. Hardware gets hotter with every new product launch which in return requires larger and better cooling solutions. Fortunately 3rd party manufacturers have noticed that the cooling power and the noise level of stock products are not always enough. Nowadays markets are full of all kinds of silent coolers, cases and other products. Few years ago Zalman was one of the first manufacturers to produce extremely silent, yet high performance CPU-coolers. Since then, the range of silent products have spread to power supplies, fans and VGA-coolers. Today almost every manufacturer have some sort of "silent" product lineup. Heatpipes have boosted efficiency of silent coolers to new levels and even made totally silent cooling possible.
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Sytrin KuFormula VF1 Plus vs. Thermalright V1 Ultra

Graphics Processing Unit Coolers
This time we received two VGA-coolers for reviewing; from Sytrin and Thermalright. These manufacturers share one thing in common which makes reviewing these particular products very interesting. Both manufacturers have never done VGA-coolers before. Both coolers have copper bases, heatpipes and aluminum fins, but that's pretty much all they share in common as the designs are totally different from each other. While sytrin looks more traditional, Thermalright has used heatpipes to move the heat from GPU to the fins on the other side of the graphics card. There is also difference in fans; while Thermalright uses a normal axial fan, Sytrin's solution utilizes a cross flow fan.