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The Arctic Accelero Hybrid III-140 is a 3rd-party GPU cooler, designed to offer improved thermals to a wide range of graphics cards.
It is a simple enough concept – a 140mm radiator cools the GPU core, while there is also a dedicated VRM heatsink and 80mm fan to cool the VRMs and MOSFETs.
In practice, installation is a pain – securing the waterblock/pump to the included backplate is very fiddly and caused me a fair bit of frustration, simply because the mounting holes on the waterblock are tiny and the block itself is prone to slipping at crucial moments. If you have an willing friend who could help you, that would make the process much easier.
When it comes to performance, though, the Accelero Hybrid III-140 did fantastically well. Not only did it reduce the max temperature of our Founders Edition GTX 1080 by 45 degrees, it also improved the GPU's clock speed by over 100 MHz thanks to GPU Boost 3.0.
As such, if you are looking to keep your GPU nice and cool, the Arctic Accelero Hybrid III-140 is more than up to the task. Even if you are happy with your card's thermals but fancy a bit of extra performance or more overclocking headroom, this cooler is well worth a purchase.
You can pick one up from Watercooling UK for £101.05 inc. VAT HERE.
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Pros
- Great cooling ability.
- Helped boost GPU's clock speed.
- Wide range of cards are supported.
Cons
- Fiddly installation.
- Not overly attractive.
KitGuru says: If you are looking to reduce your GPU's temperature, the Arctic Accelero Hybrid III-140 is up to the task and could even net you extra performance in-game.
Great performance, but a shroud for the front would make it a lot more visually appealing.
Good idea – I agree the visuals are a bit lacking
Very nice results for sure with this cooler. It is to bad Nvidia gimped the cards bios so much it would be great to see those 2.5Ghz clocks they were talking about when they released the 10 series. I guess we won’t see that until someone manages to decrypt and unlock the Bios on the 10 series. But at this stage of the game if it hasn’t happened yet it most likely won’t because in a few months Nvidia will release the rebranded 20 series and no one will care about unlocking the 10 series anymore.
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This is really a great aftermarket hybrid cooler for reference graphics cards.
This is a CLC (closed loop circuit), not an AIO. Please correct accordingly.
Am I the only one concerned that the RAM on the front is not addressed by any heatsinks?
The ram is cooled by the backplate. Which makes sense because the temps actually conduct through the pcb better than the plastic casing they are in.
Same difference. With a few exceptions (basically swiftech and ekwb) all aio are clc’s
I went ahead and added this beast to my 1080 FE and I so far I can’t get the GPU over 45 degrees c. Very nice. I added copper heatsinks to the front of RAM and touched them during 3dmark loop and they were very hot! Note that I do oc both GPU and memory. Glad I added the heatsinks