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The next cooler I tried on the same drive was the Voyager Dual Fan HDD Cooler that installs over almost the entire bottom of the hard drive and brings a bit more cooling to the drive. The Voyager cools down the drive by about 3 to 4 degrees and installs just as easily as the Orbiter. Both fans make for a quick and easy cooling solution and in some instances you may want the smaller size of the Orbiter or better cooling of the Voyager for your particular cooling needs.
The next up for my cooling products is the Propeller Dual Card Fan that I just found a great use for in my system. I received two HD3450 graphics cards for reviewing and these cards are both fanless with a large heat sink. They do add to the heat inside the computer I installed so having some kind of cooling air movement blowing across the cards makes a lot of sense.
In the computer I installed the dual fan card I have a Gigabyte motherboard with a passive cooling heat sink on both the North Bridge and south bridge. This extra large heat sink needs some kind of additional air flow inside the computer to keep it cool and not add heat to the entire system. The Propeller dual card fan moves air across the heat sink as well as adding air movement inside the computer and onto the graphics card directly above it.
Installing the Propeller fan into any computer will be easy as the card has a small plastic tab that fits into any PCI, PCI Express or AGP slot. The plastic tab is the size of a PCI Express 1 slot so it fits into most any current slot in a computer. The propeller fan card has a Molex connector with a through connection so you can add a male on one side and a female on the other and not take up one power cable inside your system.
The Propeller card has an adjustment on it to adjust the fan speed so you can lower or raise the speed according to the needs of your particular situation and system. That is one of the nice main features you want to look for in just about any fan cooling solution you add, how well it adapts to your particular situation.
I have reviewed and seen many different fan coolers and the ones I have used the most and kept in my systems are the ones that work well for the current part I am trying to cool. Whether they have Molex or smaller fan power connections or the various mounting systems really make less of a difference than the overall cooling benefits of cooling the parts of the computer you need to cool.
The Propeller dual fan card adds a nice directional cooling movement of air where you need it against cards in your system or along the motherboard. For an additional cooling in one area of your computer that may have been neglected you can add some cooling to your RAM sticks or memory.