A Closer Look

After unpacking the cooler and all its little bits, I began dismantling my rig and removing the cooler I had on at the time – The Arctic Cooler Rev 2. I grabbed the bottle of white spirit, some kitchen roll and a knife to scratch away any rogue dried heat paste, and got ready to go to work.

Next was to remove the heat paste that I had on already, so it was out with the white spirit and a bit of kitchen roll. Again, a less than a minute job and my GPU was as clean as when I bought it.

The next thing I did was the stick on the all copper ram sinks with their thermal pads. Very simple, took me less than a minute to do.

As far as ram sinks go they looked awesome, very neat and tidy, and very professional looking. It was at this point that I added the new coat of heat paste. (NB. I hope Jetart will forgive me for this, but due to its market leading thermal conductivity, I opted to use Arctic Silver 5 instead of the supplied heatpaste.)

Then it was on to mounting the heatsink. Following the given instructions, I screwed the spacers onto the heatsink and then rested it gently on top of the GPU, lining up the holes as best I could. This is where it gets a bit tricky, as you have to hold the heatsink in place, while turning it over, line up the backing plate then push a screw threw the holes in it, through the holes in the PCB and then screw them in enough for you to let go without the backing plate firing the screw across the room. Another hand would have been useful to say the least. However, once both screws were in, I tightened each alternately until the screws would tighten no more and the heatsink was sat very snuggly.

The next thing to do, was to mount it in my rig, no problems there. It also didn’t block the chipset fan on my DFI nf4 SLI-DR anywhere near as much as the Artic Cooler I had on before. It also looked awesome when turned on. The blue led fan working together fantastically with the rest of my system to add to the blue aura.