Showing off the power of dual fan: Thermalright T-Rad2 GPU cooler review
◆ The performance of T-Rad2
The performance of T-Rad2 with dual 92mm fan reaches the best performance. The temperature is 8℃ lower than HR-03 GT with one 92mm fan, 2℃ lower than T-Rad2 with one 120mm fan, and even 43℃ lower than reference cooler, imparessing result.
The most outstanding feature of T-Rad2 is not only providing cooling for GPU, but also great for other component for PCB. With T-Rad2 and two fans, The PCB temperature is as much as 30℃ lower than HR-03 GT, mainly thanks to the thin design of T-Rad2. The space between fan and PCB is only 24mm, So the fan cam blows exactly to the whole PCB. Compared with reference cooler, its superiority can be easily seen.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: a closer look at T-Rad2
Page 3: Installation
Page 4: Multi-card issue
Page 5: Test setup and remarks
Page 6: The performance of T-Rad2
Page 7: Fanless with T-Rad2
Page 8: Who to challenge T-Rad2
August 18th, 2008 at 5:00 am
[...] FurMark has been used to overload the GPU. [...]
August 21st, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Detailed and professional review as always.
Hope TR will improve it.
Anyway, an awesome cooler!
August 21st, 2008 at 8:08 pm
You have made a vital mistake in your review of the Thermalright TRad 2 VGA cooler. You have calculated the total height of the graphics card and cooler to be 58mm, and then stated that this won’t fit in the 55mm space between the slots of a 2 x PCi slot motherboard. However, when calculating the 58mm dimension you have included the 11mm for the bolts, which protrude at the rear of card. Therefore the space required between slots is actually 24mm (heatsink) + 20mm (fan) + 3mm (debatable for PCB) = 47mm
August 21st, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Ahhh no. I see…..
The bolts on the second card would conflict with the fan[s] on the first.
Doh! Sorry
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:06 am
BTW use the “start-Xtreme-Burning.bat” start file with Furmark, it makes the cards ever hotter!
August 26th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Where could one find a 92mm x 20mm thick fan. Google tells me no such beast exists.
August 26th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
@wheatbread:
AVC have a 9220 fan. And i believe other company also have this type
http://www.avc.com.tw/china/products/DC-FAN-home.htm
August 30th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
so how thoes this compare to HR03GT + 120mm fan? I bet its a close score.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
A great review! I’ve been waiting to see some real-world results from this cooler for some time now.
@wheatbread, I’m sure a standard 25mm thick fan will fit just fine. 92mmx20mm fans are very rare.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:28 am
[...] Page 1: Introduction Page 2: обзор кулера [...]
October 9th, 2008 at 6:11 am
on the bolts at rear comment , potentially simple fix is just to trim them down and replace the knurled nuts with standard nuts , this would free up a good 5mm , ill test the theory when i get my second 4870 later on this year , ordered one of these babys from usa this week
November 13th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Are there any sites that you can buy those thin 92mm fans from? The link from That Linux Guy is in Chinese and there is no were to purchase from them. Google returns no results for the DA9220 part number.
November 17th, 2008 at 9:01 am
You incorrectly state that the HR-03GT cooler can only use a 92mm fan. I have attached a 120mm fan to the HR-03GT with a little bit of modification of the wire clips.