Accelero S1 Passive GFX Cooling

[PV5150]

Are you sure it's big enough? Arctic Cooling will soon release its new Accelero S1 passive heatsink for high-end graphics cards. Care to comment? Feel free to do so below....

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Might be interesting for a review. Obviously not for the 'clocker', but the silence connoisseur...

 

[Ham]

....That thing is f-ing huge.

 

[Mr. Popo]

I remember reading about it like two years ago.

Anyway wasn't it supposed to be more like this:

 

[TJS]

ive sounds good, but you gotta have fans somewhere to push/pull the heat out of the case... might as well watercool.

TJS

Edit: P@$$ive is a bad word???

 

[Toxcity]

That looks like it will snap the chip in half!

Crazy! Just move to water and you will be fine!

 

[mVp24]

Holy ***************************

SHouldn't we be trying to make smaller, more efficient heatsinks?

 

[llwyd]

SHouldn't we be trying to make smaller, more efficient heatsinks?

Well once its got heatpipes and a lot of copper in it the only way do increase efficiency is to increase surface area. Other than that they could make all the fins copper, they would then cost a stupid amount.

 

[Doddsy]

I started looking for this when I got my 7900 because they were meant to be released last april or something, ended up re-using my nv5 silencer.

Thing is pretty huge though.

 

[markkleb]

The passive cooler on my XFX 7950 was really nice, not too big and kept the card at a good temp. The small ones I added to my 7600GT cards also work well.

I LOVE AC Cooling stuff, but this is too big. And just imagine all that heat just radiating all over the inside of your case.

I dont get what engineers are doing, its like "hey cases are big lets fill them up with stuff" but once full how is the air supposed to pass through them?

 

[PP Mguire]

I dont get what engineers are doing, its like "hey cases are big lets fill them up with stuff" but once full how is the air supposed to pass through them?

Vantec Tornados full blast? THis is way to big. I would never buy anything this big. Reminds me of the Thermaltake Sonic Tower.

 

[BloodRed]

Itsa very big

Best to get water cooling i should think

 

[Toxcity]

Itsa very big

Best to get water cooling i should think

Now why are you nicking my ideas?

 

[BloodRed]

Water cooling looks better (looking at your rig) than this brick of a heat sink and most of it can be put outside the case, so it might be a bit of a space saver compared to this beast