Maxit Mag

X-bit labs has completed a review about Zalman's latest addition to it's line of graphics cards cooling solutions, and it could be what you needed to silence that fast spinning little bugger once and for all.

In it's current incarnation, the VNF100 can cool efficiently up to a GeForce 7900 GS. Efficiently, here, means that it will do the job of the standar cooler, but without the fan. Installation seems easy if you watch Zalman's Flash how-to, but be sure not to encounter problems like these:

"I would like to point out a few things here. First, as you can see, two memory chips on the front of the PCB will remain without heatsinks, because the heatpipes won’t let you put them on. Although on other graphics cards this may not be the problem. Secondly, since the heatsink is actually positioned behind the graphics card, then you need to make sure that there are no components in the area around the PCI Express graphics card slot on the mainboard that would rise above 40mm. In our case, we had to remove the tall Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II cooler from the mainboard chipset, but again, this is an individual case. I don’t think that many of you will have tall heatsinks/coolers in that area, but nevertheless, make sure you check it out in advance."

If you aren't lucky with Zalman there's not much hope left, as they offer the widest range of possibilities for compatibility with different graphic cards.