It's no secret that hardware runs hot these days. And that created a gap in the graphics card market as the ODMs always will try and put an affective yet cheap cooler on top of your graphics card. A couple of names out there have perfectly interesting solution, Artic Cooling for example makes some really good VGA coolers. But then there's always Zalman, they recently released their VF3000 series graphics card coolers for both (VF3000A) ATI's latest 4000/5000 series graphics cards and the VF3000N cooler for the GeForce GTX 260,275,280 and 285.

Over the next few pages we'll startup a large photo-session where we'll guide you through the product, its installation and then of course temperature and sound-pressure measurements. Have a peek at the prepped and finished card which just had a majestic makeover as it is mounted with a Zalman VF3000N cooler.