Thermalright Shaman Unboxing & Review

An unboxing and review of the Thermalright shaman VGA cooler including installaton.

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Quick review:
and excellent cooler with very low core temperatures and low noise, the cooler is only slightly audible at 1300Rpm. The only donwsides are that it is quite a large cooler so may not fit in some small cases and the VRM temps are not brilliant but still shouldn't overheat. (my fan mod as shown in the video did improve VRM temps quite a bit)

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[SYLFan2008]

That cooler looks way too big for me to consider (takes up 4 slots), but thanks for the video nonetheless. Oh, and I've heard at EVGA's GTX 560 and 570 VRMs are not necessarily the best thing around for overclocking (I'm sure you might have figured out already), and therefore I might make the switch to ATI after all.

[gmodertom]

@SYLFan2008 I got rid of this cooler as it caused my other components to overheat. It dumps all the heat from your gpu into the case. With the stock cooler my 560 runs at 85 degrees! and this is without overclocking and the fan is at about 70%. So I wouldn't recommend overclocking with this card unless you get water cooling :)

[SYLFan2008]

@gmodertom: Well, I am torn between GTX 570 (EVGA SC version) and HIS 6950 Iceq OC version (I realize you cannot flash the new 6950s to 6970 now). Have some advice?

As for your cooler, it was blowing right over your PSU. I wonder if that had something to do with it. Moreover, I see no sense in blowing hot air downwards when it naturally rises up.

[gmodertom]

@SYLFan2008 I would hold off for the new AMD 7series, they just announced the 7970 due out in January along with the cheaper models. If you really have to buy one this week then I would get the 570. But I would wait its only about 2-3 weeks till its release.

My cooler was blowing the hot air upwards, that was the problem though as it was blowing directly into the CPU and motherboard heatsinks. I was running it in a small case and the temps were better with the side panel off.

[SYLFan2008]

@gmodertom: I am buying this week (ordering thru CyberPowerPC and using their Xmas special) and they don't have the 7000 series AMDs on their list yet, although they added the 560 ti classified just yesterday and it seems comparable to 570 sc (save for 32 fewer cores) and about $30 cheaper.

As for my assessment on the cooler...oops! Now that I see your vid again, it's obviously pushing air through the fins. Hope you found a better replacement.

[gmodertom]

@TheAk3m1 Check on the Thermalright website, It has detailed diagrams with all the measurements :)

[TheAk3m1]

@gmodertom can u tell me the width of this cooler I am thinking of buying it but im unsure if i can fit my wireless card and this in it.

[gmodertom]

@idesignandcreate Thanks Malkin, The temps are lower now, I forgot to mention room temps were about 26-28 degrees when I ran the tests which is pretty warm. I am getting about 65 degrees on really stressful games but on most games it stays around 55-65 degrees. The stock cooler is fine if you dont overclock though, my card was factory overclocked so the stock cooler sounded like a jet lol.

[idesignandcreate]

Try test the temps again in like 2 days I bet they will lower more, thermal paste can take a while to set/conduct.

Great proffesional review. I am gona stick with my stock coolers and a my custom SLI cooler for now though.