A Closer Look

The VC1000 is put into the video cooling line from Jetart, along with the GPU coolers that have also been reviewed on this site. Running on the assumption that the higher the number, the better the product, this will be the bottom of the line. Hopefully its performance with exceed its rank.

The product itself is pretty simple, and nearly everything is ready to do, bar the DIY installation of the 50mm side fan. All that's needed is for you to clip it on the side so that's pretty easily accomplished. The fan clips onto a rail with bumps on it so you can position the fan wherever you want it and it will stay there.

Its nice to see that they packaged the ever important screw to attach the PCI bracket to your case.

The main body of the product is made of blue plastic which is apparently UV reactive. I don't have an UV sources so I can't prove this, but if this is true it would make the whole product a lot more aesthetically pleasing.

The 70mm fan is clipped into place on the PCI card and is again an advancement on the older 3D cooler as it has more, thinner fins. Its also thinner and doesn't have the unsightly blue band around it covering up the LED wires. In this case the LED's are built into the fans hub. The side fan is a 50mm blue LED equipped fan that blows at right angles to the 70mm main fan.

The wire management issues that the 3D cooler was stricken with are solved with this new model. The fans are pre-connected to the main base and are concealed along the top of the main body of the Storm 2 unit. The wire terminates in a pass-thru molex connector meaning that you don't add extra cabling to your PC, but you still keep a molex plug. This type of pass-thru connector is becoming more and more popular as its cheaper for the manufacturer and more useful to the end user.

The cable can run out the front or the back of the product, meaning that once again you can have the neatest cabling possible. And we all know that neater cabling means better cooling.

At the bottom of the card, there are three fins. These slot into the PCI slot to keep the card in place. However, many of you are thinking that people who have PCI-e already are going to have problems with the left tab poking into motherboard capacitors and such. This is where Jetart have made it possible for this tab to be snapped off by using a pair of plyers. Whilst this is a clever idea, it makes little sense why they put it on there in the first place; if the VC1000 can be supported with just two tabs on it (PCI-e configuration) why put on three tabs? Anyway, at least they have thought of forward/backward compatibility whichever way you look at it.

On the back of the card, there is a small variable resistor. This means that you can change the speed of the fan when in use. It only controls the main fan, which doesn't really make that much of a racket on full pelt. The side fan is the one that seems to make all of the noise in my opinion. The main problem with using this control, is that on the 'L' setting the blue LED not only becomes dimmer but gives out a different colour which really isn't that attractive.