Introduction

We are reviewing today the Deepcool V4000 VGA cooler, which has a copper heatsink, four heatpipes and two 80 mm fans. Check it out!

In Figure 1, you can see the V4000 box, a plastic blister package that allows you to see the entire cooler.

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Figure 1: Box

In Figure 2, you can see the items that come in the package: the cooler itself, manual, memory heatsinks, thermal grease, and installation hardware.

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Figure 2: Accessories

The Deepcool V4000

In Figure 3, you can see the top of the cooler. The dark semitransparent fans are mounted on a frame that is manufactured using the same material used in the fans.

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Figure 3: Top view

In Figure 4 you can see the front side of the cooler.

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Figure 4: Front view

In Figure 5, you see the side of the cooler. The fins are made of copper, and you can note that there is a gap between the heatsink and the base of the cooler.

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Figure 5: Side view

In Figure 6 you can check the heatpipes, note how they are curved.

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Figure 6: Side view

In Figure 7, you can see the base of the cooler. Note that the heatpipes are well spaced in the full-copper heatsink. The base is well polished, showing a mirror-like aspect.

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Figure 7: Base

In Figure 8, you see the fan frame removed from the heatsink. There are two power connector for the fans; one three-pin (no PWM support, but if you connect it to your motherboard you can monitor the fan speed) and one standard peripheral power connector (that you can connect directly to your power supply). Of course you need to connect only one of the two. The fans have blue LEDs inside them.

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Figure 8: Fans

Installation on a GeForce GTS 250

Before installing the cooler, you need to install the screws in the base, as you can check in Figure 9. There are four possible positions for the screws, so the cooler can be installed on virtually any video card.

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Figure 9: Base with the screws installed

In order to test the V4000, we installed it on our Zotac GeForce GTS 250, which you can check in Figure 10 with its stock cooler.

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Figure 10: GeForce GTS 250

In Figure 11, you can see the nuts that hold the cooler, placed on the solder side of our video card. The cooler is heavy, and the addition of a backplate could help holding the cooler without forcing the printed circuit board.

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Figure 11: Solder side

In Figure 12, you can see the V4000 installed on our GeForce GTS 250. As we always do in our reviews, we didn't install the heatsinks on the memory chips.

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Figure 12: Installed on our VGA

Installation on a GeForce GTS 250 (Cont’d)

In Figures 13, 14, 15, and 16, you have a general view of the Deepcool V4000 installed on our GeForce GTS 250. It is very important to note that this cooler will take two expansion slots of your case, meaning that your video card will use a total of three expansion slots.

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Figure 13: Upper view

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Figure 15: Bottom view

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Figure 16: Side view

Our Tests

We ran some simple tests to check the performance of the Deepcool V4000, measuring the GPU core temperature with the aid of the SpeedFan software, and sound pressure level (SPL) with a digital noise meter set 4" (10 cm) from the video card, with the GPU at full load running the folding@Home GPU client. For this measurement, we turned off the fans of the case and the CPU cooler, so they noise wouldn't interfere. Please keep in mind that sound pressure level measurement is just for comparative purposes, because a precise measurement would have to be done in an acoustically insulated anechoic chamber, which we don't have.

We compared the results from the V4000 with some other coolers we tested recently, and with the VGA stock cooler. You can check the results in the table below.

Product	Noise	Room Temp.	Core Temp.	Temp. Diff.	Speed
Stock Cooler	61 dBA	16 °C	73 °C	57 °C	-
VF1000 LED (min.)	44 dBA	16 °C	74 °C	58 °C	1400 rpm
VF1000 LED (max.)	51 dBA	16 °C	61 °C	45 °C	2600 rpm
Scythe Musashi (min.)	40 dBA	16 °C	65 °C	49 °C	850 rpm
Scythe Musashi (max.)	47 dBA	16 °C	58 °C	42 °C	1950 rpm
VF3000A (min)	47 dBA	19 °C	52 °C	33 °C	1500 rpm
VF3000A (máx)	57 dBA	19 °C	49 °C	30 °C	2800 rpm
Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo Pro	43 dBA	15 °C	50 °C	35 °C	-
Gelid Icy Vision	54 dBA	15 °C	66 °C	51 °C	2050 rpm
Deepcool V4000	44 dBA	21 °C	70 °C	49 °C	1850 rpm

In the graph below, you can compare the temperature differences between the GPU core and the room. Remember that the lower the value, the better performance is.

Main Specifications

The main specifications for the Deepcool V4000 VGA cooler include:

• Fan: Two 80 mm fans with nominal speed of 2500 rpm
• Base: Copper
• Heatpipes: Four copper heatpipes
• Heatsink: Copper fins connected to the heatpipes
• Dimensions: 4.3 x 6.9 x 2.0 inches (109 x 177 x 52.5 mm) (W x L x H)
• Weight: 16.4 oz (466 g)
• Extra features: Heatsinks for memory chips
• More information: http://www.deepcoolglobal.com
• Average price in the US: We couldn't found this cooler being sold in the US

Conclusions

The Deepcool V4000 is a mainstream VGA cooler. In our tests it cooled our video card a little better than the stock cooler, but a lot quieter. On the other hand, its performance was not at the same level of the high-end VGA coolers we tested so far.

Depending on the price it will be sold, the Deepcool V4000 VGA cooler can be a good choice if you are looking for a quiet, nice-looking cooler for your video card.