Nice article.
One problem:
Have you recorded outside room temperatures during the test? Without them the numbers don't make any sense. At least state that they were the same when you compared the two coolers (were they?)

A recommendation: would be nice to have a comparison to the stock x800 pro/xt cooler.

Room temperature of course, around 21 degrees celcius. Stock cooler isn't as good, performs about the same as the Zalman with a 7-volts fan, but the noise level is far greater.

Those Arctic coolers work greater. I have a similar model on my Radeon 9800 Pro and it works fantastically.

Wow, this is quite the review. I'll be looking in Hardware Analysis first for reviews before anywhere else.

Oh, is there a posibility for a review about the best water cooling solutions or something?

Take Care.

I recently Purchased the HIS Excalibur X800 Pro 256MB IceQ II.

http://www.hisdigital.com/html/x800pro_iceqii.htm

It has almost the same type cooling solution as a standard only a little larger, and I have to say im very happy with it.

That is the ATI Silencer 4 as tested here, as described in the article the pictures are of the the ATI Silencer 1 mounted onto the Radeon 9800 Pro.

I am currently running a 9800 Pro in my system and I was wondering if the Zalman ZM80D-HP would give much of a performance boost or if i should just wait untill the X850XT PE comes out.

LOL looking at review here first before anywhere else?? Funny, as the review of anything here is always several months late once the product they're reviewing is already in store and had been reviewed by someone else on other website within a week. So unless you're telling us that you're willing to wait a several months to look at review here when there is dozens of review by then, I don't think it's gonna happen anytime time soon, unless of course Sander or Michael review them within a week of release.

Umm, I don't think the reviews here are months after the product is out.
Look again,