MACS MA-8200 TEC Peltier VGA cooling - Page 3

Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/29/2006 02:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]

The Cooler Itself

Okay enough of the technical gibberish. Let's have a look at the product. Below you can see the bundle. The cooler we tested comes under the name M-Sorceress ... yeah I'll leave out the jokes ;)

You'll find the cooler itself to be large. It's basically a Peltier unit with heat pipe construction to remove the heat. The heat is guided to cooling ribbons where no less than two fans blow over these ribbons. Obviously the cooler comes with all materials needed inclusive are a screwdriver, mounts screws, retention bracket and thermal paste. On the note of thermal paste .. if you have some lying around from Arctic silver or something then please use that as the supplied thermal paste is cheap rubbish which i';ll now refer to as "goop".

MACS MA-8200 TEC VGA cooler review

Specifications MACS Sorceress MA-8200 TEC VGA Cooler
model number	MA-8200
TEC Type	30 x 30 mm / 5V DC
Total Power Range	3W-18W
Heat Pipe Material	Copper bass with nickel coating
Quantity of Heat Pipe	4 pieces
Fin Material	Aluminum
Quantity of Fin	Fin 49 pieces for A Module, 49 pieces for B Module, Total 98 pieces
Heat Sink Dimensions	78 x 108 x 37 mm (DxWxH)
Fan Dimensions	80 x 80 x 10 mm (DxWxH)
Fan Voltage Rating	12V DC
Fan Speed & Noise Level	Low-1800 rpm / 17 dB(A) / Mid-2500 rpm / 20 dB(A) / High-3000 rpm / 24 dB(A)
Cooler Weight	268 g
Thermal Resistance	0.3 (°C/W) base on nVIDA 7900GTX
Control System	Automatic control module
TEC Temperature Response Time	<1 second
TEC Sensor	temperature sensor on cooling assembly
Power Input	12V DC/1A, 5V/3A
Controller Dimensions	218 x 108 x 43 mm (DxWxH)
Total Weight	360 g
Supported VGA Card List
ATI	X1950/1900/1800 Series
nVIDIA	Geforce 8800/7900/7800/7600/6800 Series (except 7800GTS )

Features & Benefits

Active Cooling
The world's first GPU cooling module combining TEC
(thermoelectric chip) with Heatpipe.

Automatic Control
Management Unit design for best temperature control.

Overclocking Best
Excellent thermal resistance provides extreme performance.

International Patents
Including China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, USA.

Fail-safe Alarm System
Precaution in the unlikely situation of GPU cooler malfunctioning.

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MACS MA-8200 TEC Peltier VGA cooling
What we'll do today is simple .. we'll strip down an expensive high-end GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB, smack a peltier cooler on it and then see how well it functions. The product comes from MACS and is the MA-8200 TEC VGA cooler.