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Arctic Accelero Xtreme Plus II

Cooling/VGA & Other Cooling by leeghoofd @ 2011-06-24

Arctic , previously known as Arctic Cooling has a long reputation in creating silent yet very powerfull cooling components. This all at an afforcable price. Most known are the versatile GPU coolers. Versatile as most models can be used on a wide range of reference PCBs. This being it ATI/AMD or Nvidia based. Today we received their brand new revised version of the Accelero Extreme Plus. Well you guessed it this slightly revamped version is called the Plus II. Victim of the day is our hot GTX480 Fermi card. Easily reaching 80°C in gaming and close to meltdown when being tortured with Furmark.

The cooler and accesoires :

Arctic still uses their white fan blades and 92mm models on their high end cooling units. Why change a winning team ? The 83 alumium fins with the big 6mm heatpipes are a real treat for the eye.

The blister contains also the required heatsinks for the multi GPU compatibility. The total fin area is humongous.

Due to Arctics clever design only 3 different mounting holes are required. For the non out of the box supported cards (listed on the previous page) another mounting plate needs to be bought. For compatibility with some cards and the previous Accelero Extreme cooler some users had to cut one or two heatpipes and remove some of the fins. This has been nicely corrected by the Arctic engineers on this Plus II version.

The complete accesoiry list at your disposal. A manual, the two compounds, to mix the G1 thermal glue. A spoon too easily apply the glue to the required components. The 7/12Volt splitter in case you don't want to use the PWM steering of the videocard. An impressive amount of heatsinks for RAM and PWM is supplied. On the right, to give you an idea how big this cooler really is. Reference is our MSI's GTX580 videocard. The unit is 288mm long , 103mm in width and only 50mm in height. Now where's that hot GTX480 ?

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