Deepcool Gamer Storm Dracula VGA Cooler Review

Installation (Cont’d)

Figure 16 shows the Dracula installed on our video card. It is longer than our VGA, which is only 8.3 inches (210 mm) long. Keep in mind that, even with a short video card, with this cooler installed, you will need 10.8 inches (275 mm) of clearance in your computer case (or more, depending on your video card).

Figure 16: Front view

Figure 17 reveals the solder side of the video card with the Dracula installed. The cooler comes with a backplate that can be used with most cards, but our GeForce GTX 460 has a rectangular disposition of t
he holes, which doesn’t allow using the backplate.

Figure 17: Solder side

In Figure 18, you can see the video card installed in our case.

Figure 18: Installed in our case

Figure 19 shows our system after installing the fans. The fan holder actually helps to support the heatsink weight, thus helping to avoid the video card bending. Notice that, after installing the fans, the video card with the Dracula uses four expansion slots.

This cooler also supports one 140 mm or two 120 mm fans installed perpendicularly to the other ones, blowing directly at the video card. However, as we noticed while trying to install them, the tower CPU cooler interfered with those fans.

Figure 19: Fans installed