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Very very nice indeed, great idea ! the card would end up costing more than my system but what the hell.
£560 for card, £100 for cooler and £30 for fans.
It should be possible to create bracket system to fit under the cooler and underneath the heatpipes. would be a ton of effort however. Shame arctic didnt make the shroud system detachable, rather than make it part of the fans.
[quote]Several months ago we would have considered this to be impossible, but by using the Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo 6990 we hope to achieve this goal today.[/quote]
I think you meant ” we wouldn’t have considered this to be possible”.
Good read, i’m glad you actually did this and you also proved this cooler can be modified. Actually i’m surprised how good the initial fans were. Good job!
Great idea and very interesting. I love to read about cooling and constantly try to improve my systems with better fans and other tweaks.
Its cool to see that the cooler can take 140mm fans, as there are tons of options out there for modifying.
Very nice indeed. good idea, but it would scare me.
I love the fact that you even did this though I think looking at those Gaming DB differences I could settle for 29.5. I expect my speakers or headset will drown that out easily.
Anyone know if you can get the AC cooler anywhere in the UK or even Europe (apart from auction website cia US)?
Hi JamesM, a lot of people have been asking this, sadly it seems very hard to find. ill have a chat with Arctic Cooling this week.
@Zaron, would be really grateful. thanks!
Hey Zardon, great write-up! I actually ended up getting the exact setup since I was impressed by the numbers you had. Runs quite and cool, couldn’t be happier. This is the only real article covering this cooler but was as informative as I needed.
One question for you, when I installed the card in my case [600t], the card is drooping from all of the weight on the far end. I’m trying to come up with a way to compensate and get support on that end but am having trouble coming up with a solution that isn’t ghetto-rigged. Any ideas [assuming you ran into same issue]?
Josh, you actually make a very good point. After the mod, the card is very heavy and it does put quite a strain on the slot, even screwed into the case. I can’t think of many ‘official’ ways of supporting the card on the far side as you say, although I did notice that HIS bundle a ‘weight lifter’ product with their HD6950 ICEQ card which you can see here http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/his-radeon-hd-6950-iceq-x-plus-edition-review/2/
Not sure if you can buy these separately, but it would help.