“For the last few years Thermalright’s video card cooling products were centered around the gargantuan HR-series of heatsinks which offered incredible performance but had an Achilles Heel: their size. In order to achieve their performance, coolers like the HR-03 relied on an upright design which made attaching a fan and running a second video card in SLI or Crossfire all but impossible. Enter the T-Rad² which is slim enough to have a standard 120mm or two 92mm fans installed on it without demolishing your dreams of a dual card setup.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Thermalright T-Rad² @ Legion Hardware
- XFX GeForce 9600 GSO XXX 384MB video card review @ Elite Bastar
- MSI N260GTX @ InsideHW
- XFX GeForce 9600 GSO XXX Edition – More Than Meets the Eye @ Hardware Zone
- Biostar 512MB 9500GT @ Overclockers Online
- Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo VGA Cooler Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Palit HD4850 Sonic Review @ OCC
- Force3D Radeon HD 4870 Black Edition @ TechSpot
- MSI Radeon HD 4850 Video Card R4850-512M @ Benchmark Reviews
- MSI ATI Radeon RX2400 Pro Video Card Review @ OCModShop
- Force3D Radeon HD 4870 512MB DHT @ Guru of 3D
Low profile, high performance

Thermalright’s new T-Rad2 is a really nice step in the right direction for users looking to use 3rd party cooling and have a dual card setup. It is thin enough that even with a fan attached Crossfire or SLI is still easily possible, whether you choose a pair of 92mm fans or a single 120mm fan. When Hardware Canucks attached this cooler to an HD4870, the temps dropped by a mere 30C under full load and by a smidgen more when it was overclocked. Any HD 4870 users interested in max temperatures under 60C?