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The Accelero XTREME plus arrives in a plastic container which should offer adequate protection during shipping. We would like to see Arctic Cooling using a proper box for this as it would offer slightly higher protection if adequately packed. For $65 (around £50) we expect slightly better shipping materials.
The bundle with the Accelero Xtreme Plus contains a mounting frame, screws, AC sticker, manual and power converter cable. The VR001 box can be seen at the bottom of the picture above.
For our surgery today we are using the HIS HD5870 card which is pre overclocked – we reviewed this in June and it scored 8 out of 10. I liked the cooler but found it rather loud as the default fan speeds are configured rather high. This card runs at 875mhz core and 1225mhz on the GDDR5 memory.
The Accelero Xtreme Plus is a sophisicated design which is based around a combination of aluminum with a copper base and heatpipes which run through a very long finned heatsink. The unit has 3 silent 92mm fans on top which are controlled via a simple PCB header. We like the fact they haven't opted for a Molex powered configuration as this can be an extra cable to route when building a system.
Arctic Cooling pre apply a thin layer of thermal paste out of the factory (MX4) but as we want to look at the core we are going to remove it. There are 5 heatpipes on each side running out to the heatsink. It really is a beefy design and looks really impressive up close.
I have been trying to source one of these for weeks. cant find it anywhere 🙁
Great cooler ! noctua NH D14 for graphics cards comment had me laughing. I think Zardon has shares in noctua :p Looks great, but very expensive.
fuck me, what a cooler. speechless.
65 bucks? ouch x10. I want one though. any dealers actually sell these? even the arctic cooling site isnt selling them, what a mess 🙁
That is a really good design, some good shots of the copper block too. I never use those preapplied pastes either, good to see im not alone.
That cooler looks very well engineered. the underside is a top job, color me impressed.
Availability is non existant. find out if they are going to sell these in europe would you ?
Arctic Cooling make great coolers, they just need to work on their distribution in certain countries.
I have one for my GTX280…
very very nice cooler with the exception of the adhesives for RAM… they are not good :-/
I had to remount them several times and they are still bit loose…
They say an hour to bed in for the adhesive, can’t say I noticed any issues but I think I read a few people said the same thing as you Jordan. Perhaps they changed the adhesive composition recently.
I do hope for their sake 🙂
It is stupid to have such issue with such a nice cooler… 🙂
I have a Sapphire 5870 card with this cooler for sale if u are in the UK.
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Hi, what was the VRM temp during test?
thanks