Deepcool V6000

Before receiving the Deepcool V6000 VGA cooler I’d never even heard of the brand. The product itself however makes a good first impression. Its sturdy and glossy packaging unfolds to give you a window view of an enormous heatsink underneath two large 92mm fans, and the weight alone suggests that the V6000 has the potential to be an excellent cooler. Even once it’s out of the box, the six heatpipes and aluminium heatsink are no less impressive.

To test the cooler I got hold of an AMD Radeon HD 5850 – these cards are known to pump out a fair amount of heat and thus provide a good challenge for the V6000. With the stock AMD heatsink this card ran at 41oC at idle, and topped out at 88oC during an intensive FurMark VGA stress test.

Installing the V6000 was painless. After taking off the stock cooler, cleaning the old thermal gunk off and reapplying new paste (supplied with the V6000), it was just a matter of sticking eight RAM heatsinks (“ramsinks”) onto the memory chips and screwing the new cooler down with four screws, then attaching the twin fans. There are also extra ramsinks for the VRM chips but my HD 5850 already had them installed.

With the V6000 installed, the idle temperature plummeted down to 30oC, and maximum temperature during the FurMark test was only 58oC – a full 30 degrees lower than the stock cooler! The V6000 wasn’t noticeably louder, either.

Unfortunately the Deepcool V6000 is not compatible with the new HD 6000 series of AMD cards (I confirmed this with a HD 6870), and compatibility with the Nvidia GTX 500 series is not listed either; it’s mainly the previous generation of cards that this cooler supports.

Regardless, it is an excellent, well-priced cooler which is easy to install. If you want to squeeze extra performance out of an older graphics card, Deepcool’s V6000 is a great choice.