Digit-Life take a look at 8 graphics card coolers from Arctic Cooling, Thermalright, Thermaltake, Zalman, and Zerotherm (including a liquid cooling unit). They tested these coolers with the reference NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT.

Compared to the stock cooler of the GeForce 8800 GT, all third-party products look great! Even representatives of the "old school" (Arctic Cooling Accelero X1, Zalman VF700-Cu, and VF900-Cu LED) perform very well in our testbed and demonstrate much better results. To say nothing of the new products. Thermalright HR-03 Rev.A and Zerotherm Hurricane HC92 Cu 8800 prove that alternative cooling systems provide truly interesting technical characteristics for comfortable thermal conditions of your graphics card with minimum noise. Only these systems allow their users to overclock graphics cards to the highest level. We shouldn't forget about the Thermaltake BigWater 760i in tandem with the TMG AT3 (TMG ND3) liquid unit—this combination is practically the most efficient and good-looking cooling system for the GeForce 8800 GT/GTS. However, it belongs to a different class of products for another price segment.