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Hardware-OC has posted a video card cooling guide.



Some of us may be familiar with the kits available for overclocking a video card : Vantec Chipset Cooler GPack III Extreme and the top dog - Vice III Extreme. Some may feel these are total overkill and for the price I tend to agree. The Vantec version isn´t very expensive but gives us little performance gain in terms of overclocking. Here is where the Blue Orb comes into play. It is cheaper than other chipset coolers out there and performs just as well excluding the copper based Vice Extreme. A comparison can be
seen here. This being a budget upgrade we will use some inexpensive RAM heatsinks from 2Cool. What in the world will we use to slap all these guys together? You guessed it, Artic Silver thermal heatsink compound and the newly released Artic Silver thermal adhesive epoxy.
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