How good is a Thermalright HR-03?

[Trash Man]

Well from what I have seen so far very

Temps on my X1950XTX with the stock cooler were around 55-57c idle and 75+ load. Now that's not to bad, I'm not fussed about over clocking, it was just the insane noise the cooler made

After fitting the Thermalright HR-03, which was a little fiddly for me and my big hands but I got there in the end I tried running it without a fan and just the side 120mm blowhole fan on it, a 800rpm 33.5 CFM sflex. Temps were around the same as with the stock cooler, a little lower on load, around 71c.

I had an old Papst 92mm 19CFM fan lying around so I've stuck that on and now it's sat 40c idle and hit 60c load using the ATI Tool 3D test.

For £25 it's worth it just to get rid of the noise the stock cooler puts out, lower temps are nice as well Very impressed indeed.

[Clunk]

You cant really go wrong with most Thermalright products, and if anything goes wrong, or you need info, their customer service is excellent

[Trash Man]

You cant really go wrong with most Thermalright products, and if anything goes wrong, or you need info, their customer service is excellent

Never had to use the CS yet but I have been using Thermalright stuff for years now, SLK 800, 900a, XP120 and now the 120 Ultra on my current CPU to name a few. But I had never changed the HS on a GFX card before.