Arctic Cooling have long been a popular choice for modifying your graphics card cooling. Today we're looking at their 5870 model.
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OC3D Review Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 5870 GPU Cooler
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alienware
Banned
*Applause*
Finally.. Finally they have sorted out their stick down solution.
It's expensive but by crikey it's worth it. Excellent results as before, but before you had the constant 'crap your pants' feeling that the sinks were going to fall off.
Orsum !
(Ta for the review as ever
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Finally.. Finally they have sorted out their stick down solution.
It's expensive but by crikey it's worth it. Excellent results as before, but before you had the constant 'crap your pants' feeling that the sinks were going to fall off.
Orsum !
(Ta for the review as ever
silenthill
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what if I put this cooler on one of my 480? of coerce it wouldn't fit, but I can be creative
what if I put this cooler on one of my 480? of coerce it wouldn't fit, but I can be creative
there is one for the 480 already same kinda set up
silenthill
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Thanks guys, looking in to it but the thing is I’ll have to buy two
delusion77
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Wow! Amazing results on this beast! I think this + Dh14 proves that watercooling is no longer needed.
Ones ambient temps go up its better to have WC IMHO so i kinda disagree
but I do get your drift
With water, once you have the initial investment, it will last longer, and probably be as quiet, and definitely get better temps. These air kits can't get the temperatures on the VRMs to be nearly as low as a decent water block. Also with water there is more space in the expansion ports (a water block takes 1.5 slots, this air cooler is three). Kinda limits crossfire or SLI on many boards.
delusion77
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well ok, watercooling still has its advantages, but its much more expensive and for the average enthusiast. AIR is just making more sense.
And its true what you say about crossfire, but again if you look at if for the average enthusiast (not extreme), tri and quad xfire/sli are much more expensive and cant be justified when on a budget.
my current build has a watercooled cpu - and i used to have a 4870x2 in the loop aswell. My gpu just stopped working and i didnt have enough cash to afford a replacement gpu and re plumb it back into the loop. Im also looking at AMD's bulldozer as a future cpu upgrade, and might end up selling my current pc, and rebuilding completely cooled by air.
And its true what you say about crossfire, but again if you look at if for the average enthusiast (not extreme), tri and quad xfire/sli are much more expensive and cant be justified when on a budget.
my current build has a watercooled cpu - and i used to have a 4870x2 in the loop aswell. My gpu just stopped working and i didnt have enough cash to afford a replacement gpu and re plumb it back into the loop. Im also looking at AMD's bulldozer as a future cpu upgrade, and might end up selling my current pc, and rebuilding completely cooled by air.
Think I might acquire one of these after payday!
Looks a dammed good solution and as mentioned justifying the water route becomes harder with these alternatives.
Would be nice to have a backplate solution for the exposed part of the card, usually fully visible in a windowed pc, just to keep it tidy.
Looks a dammed good solution and as mentioned justifying the water route becomes harder with these alternatives.
Would be nice to have a backplate solution for the exposed part of the card, usually fully visible in a windowed pc, just to keep it tidy.
fillthevoid
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Does this cooler fit non-reference cards?
Its designed for reference. you may need to modify or fabricate parts for non ref.
