Forgive me but I am curious as I have been pottering about trying to make my mind up on my own vadim purchase for a few weeks and am unsure whether to go with the Antartic cooling or Standard and DIY my own cooling.
What exactly did you get for the £129.99 ?
Looking at those pics it all looks stock
Stock GPU
Heatsinks on the memory is stock for those OCZ's
Drive bay cage, side fan & blue LED fans come with that case stock
& the motherboard also looks to be stock
My new rig is very similar to Gapi's, but it is water-cooled. Have barely had a chance to touch it (travelling a lot) but will check situation with GPU-Z and report back on Vadim's GX2 tweaks - I do know that my MoBo cooling had to be sacrificed for double cooling the GX2: it could certainly double as a room heater!
a digital fan controller... programmed by Vadim. A T-Balancer.
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Antarctic Cooling (3-5 Fans digital controlled+VGA/HD Cooling)
This is our Antarctic cooling system for PCs that consists of 2-5 ball bearing fans (depending on the case you choose) plus we add a digital controller to adjust the fan speeds that has 4 temperature sensors that we install all over the case to monitor HD, CPU, VGA and System temperatures.
This system automatically adjusts the speeds in accordance with the temperature information that is received through the 4 hardware sensors. Currently we use the Mcubed high quality BigNG controllers with the sensors on CPU, VGA, HD and ambient. All the temperature limits are preset during stress testing for the safe noise to heat ratio.
Additionally, where space/configuration permits, we do custom modifications and replace all or some of:
- The motherboard's chipset heatsink+fans with more powerfull ones that will ensure quieter operation over the integrated ones.
- The VGA heatsink/fan with either Arctic cooling VGA silencers, Zalman copper heatsinks
- Add HD Cooling where possible such as Zalman or Revoltek HD Coolers.
- Cut an additional one or two 120mm Fan Hole in the case with silent case fans fitted
This work can take upto a day and is carefully designed and implemented depending on PC configuration (Case/motherboard/VGA design)
In a rare few instances, we may not be able to physically fit any more aftermarket cooling into a configuration. This may be due to the lay-out of a case, or because the stock VGA or hard drive cooling is already very good case and cannot be improved on. If this does occur, you will be notified and we will instead install a premium cooling package, refunding the difference to the card used in the original order.
and all he got was a £50 fan controller, glad I read this i'll be going for standard cooling and doing it DIY
a digital fan controller... programmed by Vadim. A T-Balancer.
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Antarctic Cooling (3-5 Fans digital controlled+VGA/HD Cooling)
This is our Antarctic cooling system for PCs that consists of 2-5 ball bearing fans (depending on the case you choose) plus we add a digital controller to adjust the fan speeds that has 4 temperature sensors that we install all over the case to monitor HD, CPU, VGA and System temperatures.
This system automatically adjusts the speeds in accordance with the temperature information that is received through the 4 hardware sensors. Currently we use the Mcubed high quality BigNG controllers with the sensors on CPU, VGA, HD and ambient. All the temperature limits are preset during stress testing for the safe noise to heat ratio.
Additionally, where space/configuration permits, we do custom modifications and replace all or some of:
- The motherboard's chipset heatsink+fans with more powerfull ones that will ensure quieter operation over the integrated ones.
- The VGA heatsink/fan with either Arctic cooling VGA silencers, Zalman copper heatsinks
- Add HD Cooling where possible such as Zalman or Revoltek HD Coolers.
- Cut an additional one or two 120mm Fan Hole in the case with silent case fans fitted
This work can take upto a day and is carefully designed and implemented depending on PC configuration (Case/motherboard/VGA design)
In a rare few instances, we may not be able to physically fit any more aftermarket cooling into a configuration. This may be due to the lay-out of a case, or because the stock VGA or hard drive cooling is already very good case and cannot be improved on. If this does occur, you will be notified and we will instead install a premium cooling package, refunding the difference to the card used in the original order.
and all he got was a £50 fan controller, glad I read this i'll be going for standard cooling and doing it DIY
They do change the fans for better ones and then spend time to set the controller for the best perfomance with the least noise.
Antarctic Cooling (3-5 Fans digital controlled+VGA/HD Cooling)
This is our Antarctic cooling system for PCs that consists of 2-5 ball bearing fans (depending on the case you choose) plus we add a digital controller to adjust the fan speeds that has 4 temperature sensors that we install all over the case to monitor HD, CPU, VGA and System temperatures.
This system automatically adjusts the speeds in accordance with the temperature information that is received through the 4 hardware sensors. Currently we use the Mcubed high quality BigNG controllers with the sensors on CPU, VGA, HD and ambient. All the temperature limits are preset during stress testing for the safe noise to heat ratio.
Additionally, where space/configuration permits, we do custom modifications and replace all or some of:
- The motherboard's chipset heatsink+fans with more powerfull ones that will ensure quieter operation over the integrated ones.
- The VGA heatsink/fan with either Arctic cooling VGA silencers, Zalman copper heatsinks
- Add HD Cooling where possible such as Zalman or Revoltek HD Coolers.
- Cut an additional one or two 120mm Fan Hole in the case with silent case fans fitted
This work can take upto a day and is carefully designed and implemented depending on PC configuration (Case/motherboard/VGA design)
In a rare few instances, we may not be able to physically fit any more aftermarket cooling into a configuration. This may be due to the lay-out of a case, or because the stock VGA or hard drive cooling is already very good case and cannot be improved on. If this does occur, you will be notified and we will instead install a premium cooling package, refunding the difference to the card used in the original order.
This is what they do, and like they say they will do al the things here listed, otherwise will refund the differenace and give you premuim fan cooling instead.
they dont just do
fan controller, fans for better ones and then spend time to set the controller for the best perfomance with the least noise.
It says in the info on antartic cooling what they do, not just what others have said, sisne as you can see they say they will do the following, and if not refund differance, so i guess this is what they will do.
