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Review of the universal cooler for graphics cards Ice Hammer IH-900B

With an excellent combination of cost and efficiency, cooling systems Ice Hammer continues to advance steadily to our market, crowding out products over top manufacturers. Today the characteristics, efficiency and noise level of another novelty — a cooler for graphics cards Ice Hammer IH-900B will be studied.

The novelty comes in a compact cardboard box with a small cutout on the front side, through which part of the fan and radiator is visible. On the reverse side there is also present cut-out in the form of the cooler. There is a list on GPU graphics cards from NVIDIA and AMD, which is compatible with the Ice Hammer IH-900B. On the sides of the package you can find specifications and other information about the cooling system.

Along with the cooler are supplied: small aluminum heatsinks for memory chips and smaller radiators for power elements, two sets of sleeves, key pads and screws, and a brief installation instruction, thermal compound A2, cables, adapters, as well as a holographic logo sticker Ice Hammer.

Warranty period is 1 year. Ice Hammer IH-900B is a beautiful and relatively compact cooler. Its small size — 141x127x67,5 mm, and weight by today's standards quite modest — 493 grams. The design of the cooler is very simple. Its «frame» consists of six nickel-plated copper heat pipes with a diameter of 6 mm, leaving a copper nickel-plated base and penetrating 58 aluminum plates. A nice 120mm fan is mounted on top of radiator.

At the base of the cooler the tubes lie in the grooves, the places of its junctions are soldered. It is noteworthy that, that the radiator tubes are grouped in two groups of three tubes in each. This was done in order to maximize air flow of fan, shifting the tube from the dead zone at the edges of the fan stator of the heatsink. Even considering the regular ventilator 120x120x25 mm, Ice Hammer IH-900B is relatively not thick cooler (67.5 mm), but two adjacent PCI-slot on the motherboard will still be blocked.

The processing quality of the contact surface of the base of Ice Hammer IH-900B can not be considered as a reference, but in general it leaves a good impression. The main thing is that the surface is very smooth, which is important for both the open crystal graphics processors and for the GPU, equipped with a heat spreader. On the Ice Hammer IH-900B installed 120mm fan with a glossy black frame and seven blades impeller with translucent orange colour.

Uninformative label is attached on the stator, so the true fan manufacturer can not be evaluated. Its speed can be controlled by PWM-ranging from 800 to 2000 rev / min at 18-38,5 dB noise level and air flow 20-70 CFM. The service life of the hydrodynamic bearing performance as well as the current power consumption is not specified. The fan of Ice Hammer started with 3.4 V and on maximum speed consumes only 3.5 watts of power.

Ice Hammer IH-900B is compatible with a fairly large number of video cards. However, current AMD Radeon HD 79xx and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 are not included, and it's because of cooler was released before these cards. The fact that the Radeon HD 79xx novelty can not be installed because of its slightly recessed GPU chip, resulting in cooler base contact with the crystal via the thermal paste is not achieved. Well, at the reference GTX 680 cooler is not installed because the plate that covers the power components and memory chips — a relatively overall base of Ice Hammer IH-900B just does not fit in the «cell» of standard radiator.

The new cooling system Ice Hammer IH-900B is a great alternative not only to any reference cooler for graphics cards, but the original cooling systems. It provides both higher efficiency and lower noise. Universal, elementary to install, relatively inexpensive and is equipped with a fan with a nice lighting, IH-900B has virtually no competitors. At the same time, there are deficiencies of cooler as a weak cooling power of graphics cards and too decorative radiators for it, as well as the overlap of two neighboring video card PCI-E slots on the motherboard. With that said, perhaps the ideal choice for IH-900B will be a middle class graphics card — AMD Radeon HD 6870/HD 6850 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and below. The choice, as always, is user’s.
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  • 13 August 2012, 13:51
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