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The Zotac GeForce GT 240 surprised us with the decent overclocks we managed to achieve, even with the stock cooler. It still manages to keep up with the latest titles, albeit at somewhat reduced settings. It is available for a modest £75 at Ebuyer which represents reasonable value for money.
Our tests have proved that the Coolink GFXChilla is a great cooler, managing to reduce the load temperatures of our GT 240 graphics card by over 20 degrees. We can't say this is surprising, though, as it is made by the sister company of Noctua. This also means build-quality is top notch, although blue seems a rather unusual colour for the fans, especially when we matched it with the yellow of Zotac's card. Black or silver fans seems much more ‘universal' to us.
For a price of £26 at Specialtech, the GFXChilla isn't too expensive. But we do feel that as an accessory to a £75 graphics card, it is too expensive to justify the extra overclocking headroom. Even though it reduces temperatures significantly, any increased longevity is made slightly irrelevant by Zotac's 5-year extended warranty. With more expensive graphics cards or as an option to reduce system noise, however, we think it could be worthwhile. That said, there's no doubt in our minds that the GFXChilla does what it's designed to do very well.
KitGuru says: The GFXChilla is a great cooler but we feel the money could be better spent purchasing a more powerful graphics card instead.
Might work better on a hotter core, but its cheap enough. shame its so ugly mind you.
I would say anyone aiming to cool a high end board would spend more on a cooler like this ?
That has to be the most ugly looking cooler i have seen in recent years. Looks like they forgot to paint it. an airfix kit.
Seems to be priced more for low end cards so I think the fact you tested it on a mass market card is a good idea rather than a 5870 or something. I agree though, its extremely ugly looking, not exactly primed for a case mod window system.
Might be a good deal for someone who has spend say 120 quid on a card or less and wants to improve the cooling. I cant see anyone with a high end board getting this when artic cooling have such brilliant third party coolers out now. price is good, looks arent. Isnt that part of the reason of getting a third party cooler to get something that looks wicked and also cools well?
Not a bad product, but quite fugly!