Video cards are getting more and more powerful as time goes by, and with that power comes more heat, and that heat needs to go somewhere, so that's why we have these elaborate and sometimes ornate stock VGA cooling solutions on them. The stock coolers usually do a good job at cooling the video card, or at least an adequate job, but the problem is that they are usually loud and don't allow for much overclocking headroom if you wish to do that.

Lots of companies make after-market VGA coolers to help us quiet our systems and keep our expensive video cards running cooler. A cooler card means longer life and possibly allowing for overclocking to improve the cards performance.

Today for review I've got the DoublePower from AeroCool, it's a VGA cooler that promises to help keep our video cards cool while looking rather cool as well. The DoublePower is fairly lightweight, and it features a built in fan speed controller, the fan has white LEDs in it that get brighter as the fans speed is increased to give you a visual clue to the speed of the fan. I've put the DoublePower up against the Stock cooler on my X1800GTO video card along with the Thermalright V-1 Ultra and the Arctic Coooling Accelero, so read on to see what I learned...

AeroCool DoublePower VGA Cooler Review

Author: Kristofer Brozio

Sponsor: AeroCool

Tech Specs,Features or the Basic Info:

AeroCool DoublePower VGA Cooler

Features:

1. High thermal conductivity

2. Heatpipe with aluminum fin

3. Stylish double flowers heatsink

4. Quad white LED fan with speed control

5. Easy to install and compatible to nVIDIA ( nVIDIA 88xx / 79xx / 78xx / 68xx ) & ATi ( ATi X19xx / 18xx )

Specifications:

Applications: Compatible with nVIDIA/ATI cards

Material: 2 x 6mm Heatpipe +Aluminum-Fin

Dimension: (D1) 50 + (D2)120 + (H)48 mm

Fan Model: 8010 Frameless Fan

Noise: 19.51~33.86 dBA

Air Flow: 27.16~37.28 CFM

Speed: 2000~3000 RPM

Cooler Weight: 230 +/- 5 gram

Videocard Compatibility

ATI

- X 1300 Series

- X 1600 / 1650 Series

- X 1800 Series

- X 1900 / 1950 Series

- Radeon 9200 Series

- Radeon 9500 Series

- Radeon 9600 Series

- Radeon 9700 Series

- Radeon 9800 Series

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NVIDIA

- Geforce4 MX 4xx Series

- Geforce4 TI 4xxx Series

- Geforce FX 5xxx Series

- Geforce 6xxx / 7xxx Series

- Geforce 8800 / 8600 / 8500 Series