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VGA Cooler Roundup April 2006

Cooling/VGA & Other Cooling by jmke @ 2006-04-24

6 different VGA coolers are tested in our latest roundup, products from Arctic Cooling, Sytrin and Zalman stressed using an XFX 7800GT running at default and overclocked speeds, while each heatsink is tested at different fan speeds and GPU temperature and noise readings are recorded. What cooler will suite you best? Read on to find out.

AC Accelero X1: Specs/Install

Arctic Cooling Accelero X1

To tame the hottest video cards out there Arctic Cooling has introduced the Accelero series, the X1 for nVidia and X2 for ATI products. It a compact design with heat pipes and copper

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Compatibility

The Accelero is made for the high end series of VGA cards, two products split up between ATI and nVidia camps.

The Accelero X1 fits:

Geforce 6800 series

Geforce 7800 series (only PCIe)

Geforce 7900GTX

The 7900GT is missing from the list as its design is different enough to make it incompatible.

As with the Silencer they have a height restriction drawing (.pdf) at their product page.

The design of the Accelero combines 2 heatpipes which run the length of the cooler, with a copper base and aluminum fins. A fan at the top accompanied by a shroud is responsible for moving air over the fins.

The shroud has a small cutout towards the rear-end of the card, this serves the purpose of cooling the extra heatsink found on the GTX series cards.

Installation

The Accelero is held in place by using all the screw holes on the card which are also used by the stock cooling, there is no way this cooler will accidentally drop of the card.

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Size wise is it also quite a behemoth compared to the small nVidia cooler

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This is the small cut-out on in the shroud which provides airflow over the capacitors at the back of the card

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Ready for some performance tests

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