Aeolus Gamer Storm Dracula heatsink for Radeon HD 7970 pictured

Posted on Thursday, January 19 2012 @ 22:40 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
TPU found shots of the Dracula Radeon HD 7970 GPU heatsink from Aeolus Gamer Storm. This model has a nickel-plated copper base, six 6mm heatpipes, and two aluminium fin arrays. Tests by the company reveal a Radeon HD 7970 runs up to 35°C less hot with the Dracula + two 80mm fans than one with the reference cooler.
The heatsink is designed to handle thermal loads of up to 250W, when outfitted with fans. The heatsink design consists of a nickel-plated copper base (this particular variant has a circular bump where the GPU die makes contact), with the appropriate mount-hole spacing for HD 7970. Through this base, six 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heat-pipes pass, the opposite ends of these heat pipes pass through two aluminum fin stacks.


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