Sytrin KuFormula VF1 Plus

When Sytrin contacted me for a review of their KuFormula video card cooler I had not heard of the brand name before, but looking at the company’s other products I remember the name “AirCon Cooling system” which is an Air-Condition unit which should help reduce the overall case temperature, using a peltier element the device looked promising but in practice didn’t quite deliver. The VF1 Plus VGA cooler however looks heavy duty and promising from the get go, a solid construction out of copper and using heat pipe technology to further increase heat transfer.



The box proudly states ‘Build Your Own Cooling’ and I can certainly agree with that, although the VF1 Plus ships with its own crossflow fan, the unit also supports 80/92/120mm fans to cool down the heatink, so you’ll have plenty of ways the build the cooling system for your VGA card.



There are two version of the VF1, the vanilla “VF1” lacks the crossflow fan, speed controller and extra memory heatsinks – the Plus version tested here includes those items.

Compatibility



The mounting system of the VF1 is quite flexible as it will allow the heatsink to fit a wide variety of graphics cards:

Geforce MX Series

Geforce Ti4*** Series

Geforce FX**** Series

Geforce 6200 Series

Geforce 6600 Series

Geforce 6800 Series

Geforce 7600GT

Geforce 7800 Series (not BFG 7800 GS AGP)

Radeon 9*** Series (not Asus A9600GE)

Radeon X** Series

Radeon 1*** Series

Installation

The installation starts of with the RAM heatsinks



Followed by sifting through the mounting gear to find those brackets which are needed for installation on the 7800GT



Once mounted on the heatsink the unit can be installed





As you can see the heavy block of copper is bolted down effectively onto the GPU core



Next up is the optional crossflow fan, this needs to be screwed in place onto a separate bracket (which also serves as mounting bracket for the 80/92/120mm optional fan) that has the fan speed control build into the rear of the bracket. The switch can be set to H/M/L.



The motor of is attached to the fan’s housing using anti-vibration rubbers



The fan bracket is mounted separately from the VGA card, here’s an overview of how the crossflow fan will push air through the heatsink’s fins



Ready for some performance tests ->