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Xigmatek Releases the Battle-Axe VD964

There have been some complaints about high GPU temperatures over the past few months ... especially on the Radeon HD 4850 graphic cards. Sapphire for example, tried to combat this issue by releasing their Toxic series which features a pre-installed Zalman cooler. Does it work? ... Yes, it actually does. Cooling the card considerably. But what about all those users who's bought a standard Radeon HD 4850 with stocking cooling? Well, Xigmatek might just have the answer ... the Xigmatek Battle Axe VD964 GPU cooler.

Xigmatek is a German based company that specialise in thermal products for PCs, manufacturing products such as heatsink & fans, CPU coolers and power supplies. They were established in 2005 and have been building a name for themselves over the past year or so and have now released their first HDT GPU cooler. Here's a little blurb taken from their website.

"XIGMATEK Co., Ltd. was established in 2005 with the aim of becoming one of the world leaders in the Thermal field. In XIGMATEK, the major members of management have many years experience in Thermal industry, PC, manufacturing and other applications. With our fruitful experience, we have full confidence that we can provide not only the best, reliable, environmental and performing Thermal/Cooling systems but excellent service also to fulfill global user’s demand."

In this review, Our CPU3D review team looks at the worlds first HDT GPU cooler the Xigmatek Battle-Axe VD964. It features 4 thick copper heatpipes which are exposed at the base of the heatsink unit. This allows direct contact with the processor and gives maximum heat absorption. These heatpipes then fan out to a very large array of Aluminum fins, which is then cooled by 2 impressive ultra quiet 92mm fans which are mounted using anti-vibration rubber bungs.

OK let's not waste any more time and take a closer look at the Xigmatek Battle-Axe VD964 GPU cooler.