I can't let this thread die this easily. Am I going insane or is the Thermalright HR-03 PLUS the
ONLY GeForce 8800GTX third party cooler on the market. There has got to be a better solution that the monstrosity that is the HR-03 PLUS. It's huge and with it's alternative configuration it's ok with one card but not SLI since the second card could not be fit in that alternative configuration including the 92mm fan to cool it. If you put it in normal configuration on the bottom SLI VGA Card then you take up 4 slots which might include precious PCI slots of things like Sound Cards or Wireless PCI or other things. Plus in alternate configuration the top SLI card may have issues with sharing space on some Large CPU coolers. So obviously someone needs to come up with an alternate design that is better than stock coolers and is more friendly towards SLI configurations.
My question to the Tom's Hardware experts, if they happen to be lurking here and can ask the industry a question or two, would be, "Why hasn't any other company developed a third party cooler for the GeForce 8800GTZ? Is the market really all that small for 8800 VGA Coolers?"
Edit Add: I finally found one.
Zalman VF1000 and the
Zalman ZM90-HP which looks like a knock off of the HR-03 PLUS. I guess the Zalman VF1000 is my only option for a space saving VGA Cooler for at least the bottom SLI Card.
Anyone know of any others VGA Cooler models that work on 8800 series? Add them here.