ThermalTake Giant II:
While Thermaltake had a few popular graphic card coolers like the Crystal Orb, they were all very noisy. The Giant II is Thermaltake’s reply to the Zalman 80A-HP: a huge cooler existing of 2 large heatsinks connected by a heat pipe. The Giant II differs from having a small fan, but you're not obliged to use it. The design is slightly different: a larger dissipation area, but the drawback is it restricts air from reaching the pcb/mem-chips.

Unlike the Zalman 80A/C-HP, this cooler nearly touches the motherboard, which might be a problem if you have a large northbrige cooler or high capacitors near your VGA slot. I had many difficulties installing the video card with this cooler on both an Abit IS7 (touched the custom passive northbridge heatsink) and a Chaintech NForce2 (touched a capacitor near the AGP slot). Beware this heatsink might not fit a crowded motherboard.


Package :


The 2 Heatsinks, a heatpipe, an optional fan and molex connector, some thermal goop.


Installation:



The installation is a little bit easier, but not much different too the Zalman 80A/C-HP.


Base finish :


The finish is pretty poor. Not only does it not have a glossy finish, there are many scratches on it too.