Evercool turbo 2 review

Page 2 - Unpacking and mounting Evercool Turbo 2

Right from picking the Turbo 2 box in our hands we noticed the cheap Chinese quality of manufacturing.

Cleverly through the "window" in the box you see only a part of the cooler and that partially fools the user that the rest of the box is filled by it. Alas the cooler is much smaller and after opening the box you can see that there is actually a lot of useless empty space - only for creating the illusion of volume. There is a "manual" there too, though its actually the other side of the card visible on the back of the box. The so called manual isn't even very detailed either, pictures are insignificant and small, though understandable...

The cooler itself looks fine. Its made is not perfect, but there are no major defects either. The heatpipes seem to be well attached to the base just like the plates seem to be well attached them. The surface of the base that contacts with the core is a tad rough though - a little water sand paper, wool cloth, toothpaste and patience might get you a degree or two more...

The biggest disappointment was the LACK OF RADIATORS - yep, there are no radiators for the video card memory chips, so if you want to use Evercool Turbo 2, we strongly advice you to obtain some. Comparing the cooler to Coolink GFXChilla (with a price tag of ~ 30$), we can clearly see that the plates are a bit cruder and placed widely. Quite understandable, considering the ~20$ tag of Evercool Turbo 2.

The mounting on the card didn't go as smooth as expected either. For starters the 8th series NVIDIA cards was not listed as supported on the back of the box, but since the fixture is universal and standards had not changed drastically for the last few years there was no way to run into problems.

The "manual" describes how to recognize and mount the cooler. We chose option one, since it looked better for our 8800GT. And it assumed using the 4 closest holes around the core. We tightened the screws to the cooler as it is described and attempted to to fit them through the holes in the card. They didn't fit, turns out they're too big to fit... With screws from Coolink GFXChilla everything works just fine, but that's no good, since the regular user would not have this option. So attempted another thing - with 2 diagonal holes. That worked, the cooler was stable. As you can see we left the radiators from Coolink, in order to keep the memory safely cooled. Now we can get on with the tests :)