Recently our interest in high performance VGA coolers has increased due to the release of graphics cards such as the Radeon HD 4850. This new and exciting graphics card delivers an incredible amount of performance for well under $200 US. However the downside is that those using the AMD reference design make use of an under powered single slot cooler that fails to get the job done at a satisfactory level.

Since its release quite a few card makers have now finally upgraded their Radeon HD 4850 graphics cards with better coolers. Nevertheless, there are still a huge amount of cards out there that rely on the single slot cooler. Therefore products such as the Thermalright T-RadČ can be invaluable to these users. The new T-RadČ is as you have probably guessed, a VGA cooler designed to be an upgrade for owners of various AMD and Nvidia graphics cards.

Like the Thermalright HR-03 that has dominated our VGA cooling charts for years now, the T-RadČ is designed to be the ultimate VGA cooler, which is suggested by the $55 US price tag. Just a few weeks ago we were able to test Arctic-Cooling’s new Accelero Twin Turbo which carries a price tag of just $35 US. This new cooler was able to do something no other VGA cooler had done before, and that was to beat the Thermalright HR-03, albeit by a single degree.

The new Thermalright T-RadČ is considerably more expensive, though when you look at the two side by side the T-RadČ certainly looks to be the more complex cooler. Still, making matters worse, when talking of value the T-RadČ does not come with any fans, where as the Accelero Twin Turbo comes with dual 80mm fans included in the price. Therefore users can expect to pay around $25 US for a pair of fans to suit the new T-RadČ.