Arctic Cooling Accelero TT II, pics and Q.

[Mathius]

First time installing a GPU Cooler..:.

Pictures may not be the best but can you see if everything is ok...

Basically I took an eraser to all the black squares that the stock heatsink was covering, cleaned off the gpu, stuck the new HS's down with the supplied tube, and fixed the main HS in position...
Everything is tightened up, so does it look ok...

2 things also...
Black, Yellow, Red connector (passthrough)...... what is it?

The molex adapter.....7v / 12v ??

Thanks.

 

[Mathius]

I went ahead and booted up and under Furmark Load (overclocked to 790/1100) I hit 50c after 35mins, which is a major step in the right direction seeing at the stock cooler was 77c IDLE.

Still though, pictures #3 and #4, what are these for ?

 

[Mgutierrez33]

as far as I can see, the additional pass-through on the wiring harness is for different PCB's who might have a different power requirement for plugging the fans straight into the card itself. The molex connector appears to be for running the fans straight to 12V power and either running them at full max all the time, or for running them at a constant 7V, kind of like a fan speed reducer does with a case fan. Doing that gives you constant fan speeds, but may affect your max load temps depending on the card/thermal paste/ambient temps/etc.

 

[Kirik]

I suggest that, for the first little while, you check on the little heatsinks to make sure they haven't fallen off. I've had that happen before and caught it before the lack of a heatsink on one of the modules did any damage.

The other thing is that, if the stock fans fail, just buy some aftermarket 80mm or 92mm fans and zip tie it to the fins / card. I have bought 3 vga coolers from Arctic Cooling since 2007 or so and 2 have had fans die on me.