Times have changed and now, the puny 45mm fan is no longer powerful enough to cool present day graphics cards anymore. So, I e-mailed Bart A. Lane, the owner and operator of 1COOLPC asking if he could send me their 'baddest' video card cooler to me for a review. Just 30 minutes after I sent that e-mail, he replied and agreed!

I used an old heatsink for lapping the GPU core. After a couple minutes you'll notice why you had that problem overclocking your GPU core. These GF-4 cores are seriously out of whack as far as being even semi flat. I lapped the core using 600 grit in a figure "8" motion for close to 30 minutes. My buddy finally told me to stop as I was really digging a bit too far into the GPU core. It still wasn't perfectly level but it was much better than how it came from the factory.

This version introduces two new RAID levels - RAID 1/0, and RAID 5. RAID 0/1 arrays can not be created with this revision, though it will continue to support existing RAID 0/1 arrays (those that were created with previous versions).

I used an old heatsink for lapping the GPU core. After a couple minutes you'll notice why you had that problem overclocking your GPU core. These GF-4 cores are seriously out of whack as far as being even semi flat. I lapped the core using 600 grit in a figure "8" motion for close to 30 minutes. My buddy finally told me to stop as I was really digging a bit too far into the GPU core. It still wasn't perfectly level but it was much better than how it came from the factory.

It seems that every time you turn around, someone has another HSF to offer. To be honest, it is getting harder to tell which are good and which are not. Come join TweakTown as they take a look at the Cooler Master HAC-V81 HSF, or XDream for short. Our friends in Hong Kong have thrown together another in a long line of sinks, but this one costs a lot less than some others available. Could this low cost cooler be right for your rig? Lets find out.