VR Features

Thermalright is no newbie to third-party PC cooling solutions. Having received the HR-03 GT a while back, we were looking for opportunities for the beefy cooler to be put to good use. The 8800GT Sonic was a candidate amongst others. Doubtful that a third party cooler could make much overclocking headroom for the 8800GT Sonic with it's 2 slot cooler, we decided to give it a try anyway. On went a 38mm thick, 92mm wide, 12W Sunon fan with PWM control.

Load temperatures fell by 2K under load, which got us really interested. So we tried it another way around.

By excluding mounting variables like mounting force and consistency, it appears that the HR-03 GT loves the extra breathing space. Where space constraints are inexistent, try mounting the Thermalright the way it works better! At under 50 Celsius, one can expect to gain a notch in both core and shader clocks. We'd have done more detailed tests if Triple-SLI weren't waiting for us!