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FPSLabs Home: Cooler Master CoolViva Pro Review

By: Oscar Meade - Published October 15, 2007 at 12:22 AM EDT - Writer Archive
Cool - the best word that comes to mind when referring to the price and performance that one of the latest video card coolers that Cooler Master offers. Read on if your video card is feeling the heat.

Category: Cooling
Manufacturer: Cooler Master
Product: CoolViva Pro
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Price: $25.04

Introduction
Lately Cooler Master has been flooding the market with a variety of products from coolers to cases and power supplies, all to varying degrees of success. Upon closer inspection it seems like designs used by Cooler Master that stick to the tried-and-true pedigree of computer component design have been the overall better products. Unorthodox designs can be appreciated for their aesthetics, but if they don't really perform then the consumer is for all intents and purposes wasting their time and money. Thankfully the Cooler Master CoolViva Pro doesn't make this mistake and offers incredible performance with a well thought out design that offers a pretty good value compared to the competition. We love this type of product here at FPSLabs because we know our readership generally consists of a younger age group that may not have the funds to go balls to the wall when it comes to computer components. Read along and see what makes the Cooler Master CoolViva Pro worth looking at.

Specifications

Test Setup

Hardware Configuration

  • Case: Antec SOLO
  • Power Supply: Antec TruePower Trio 650
  • Motherboard: Universal abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X
  • Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
  • Hard Drive: Seagate 320GB SATA
  • Hard Drive: Seagate 300GB SATA
  • Hard Drive: Maxtor 250GB SATA
  • Video: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express
  • Memory: Mushkin EM6400 Dual-Channel PC2 6400 2048MB
  • Audio: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
  • Cooling: Zalman CNPS9500 CPU Cooler
  • Cooling: Zalman VF900-Cu GPU Cooler
  • Cooling: Cooler Master CoolViva Pro
  • Display: iZ3D 22" LCD

Software Configuration

  • Motherboard BIOS: v1.2 Beta 1 (03/29/2007)
  • Chipset: nForce 590 SLI AMD Windows XP 32-Bit v9.35 WHQL Certified
  • Operating System: Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
  • Video Driver: NVIDIA ForceWare Release 163.71 32-bit WHQL Certified
  • Audio Driver: Creative SB Audigy 2 Series Driver 02.09.0016
  • Test Software: Hardware Sensors Monitor 4.3.1.2
  • Test Software: Futuremark 3DMark 2006 1.1.0
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