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When we initially received the Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME Plus for review we were stunned at how big it was … ‘overkill‘ was the first word that came to mind. I am not easily sold on oversized heatsinks as they don't always produce the end result they should.
Fitting the cooler is easy enough and while it is huge, there are no concerns with the build quality on any level – the manufacturing standards are top drawer and we admire the mirrored heatpipe layout design.
On a performance level there is no air cooler we have tested to even get close to these levels. Observing an overclocked HD5870 rendering the Furmark benchmark and maintaining sub 50c temperature variables is staggering.
Equally as impressive are the noise levels, Arctic Cooling have cleverly used a tri fan design and are spinning them slowly to generate a high level of balanced airflow across the full length of the heatsink/pipes and fins. It works extremely well and also means that the ‘return to idle' temperature state is extremely quick … three times as fast as a reference solution.
To say we have been impressed would be an understatement, this is basically the Noctua NH D14 for graphics cards. We have unfortunately been unable to find stock in the UK and as this is the weekend we will need to get an updated report on availability from Arctic Cooling this coming week. The price on their home site is $65.95 /55 euros which puts it firmly into the upper cost bracket (The VR001-4 kits are also $6.95 each). Is it worth it? Well if you have a reference card then certainly …. temperatures can be reduced by over 30c and you end up with an almost silent solution.
KitGuru says: Arctic Cooling have certainly met the grade with this design, its expensive, but it is a quality product.
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.
if interested in more details let me know at…
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Hi, what was the VRM temp during test?
thanks