Polarman
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System Name | Polar's Dragon |
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Processor | AMD Phenom II 975BE |
Motherboard | MSI 890FXA-GD65 (Bios 18.7) |
Cooling | Zalman CNPS 9700 Led |
Memory | Gskill 8GB DDR3-1333 (8,8,8,21) |
Video Card(s) | MSI HD6870 Hawk |
Storage | WD Raptor 250 - WD RE4 500GB |
Display(s) | Samsung T240 (1920 X1200) |
Case | Silverstone Raven 2 |
Audio Device(s) | Realtek ALC892 |
Power Supply | PC Power&Cooling Silencer 750 (Red) |
Software | Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit + SP1 |
I wanted to share my experience by making a small review of this product:
Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo VGA cooler
I was quite happy when i saw the purolator truck stop in front of my house. Usually, i'm not home and i have to retreive any drop offs at their wherehouse wich i hate to go to. I wanted that cooler ever since it was announced. I immediately went to work! Here's a pic of the package.
We all know that the stock cooler does it's job as long as you "tweak" the fan settings to decrease those horrendous temperatures but at the expense of silence. More cooling = more noise. Anything above 50% fan speed begins to get very annoying. At 65% it sounds like a jet engine for me at least.
Accelero TWIN TURBO Main features
• Unmatched cooling performance – up to 120W
• Efficient heat transfer via 4 heatpipes and 30 fins
• Two ultra quiet 80mm fans with low noise impeller
• Patented fan holder eliminates the buzzing sound
• RAM and voltage regulator cooling
• SLi and Crossfire compatible
• Pre-applied MX-2
• Lightweight, transport safe
• 6 year warranty
If you want more details on this product, i suggest you visit their website:
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=166
The package included 8 RAMsink, 4 VRMsink, A pack of tiny screws and rings, A metal slot thingy, a 3 pin adapter to connect to the psu, the instructions and a nice sticker!
BEWARE! The instructions does not cover the 4850 / 4870. Check here for how to.
The fan has both 3 pins and 4 pins. The 4 pins can connect directly to the card so you can adjust the fan settings if need be.
Here's a shot of my Visiontek HD4870 with the stock cooler and one without it.
I used a cleaning solution made by 3M to clean the GPU, the Memory and the VRM to make sure that the small aluminum sink "stick" well. I hate to put these on. I usually put them on crooked.
After everything was cleaned up, i took the small stickers off the back of the sinks to stick them where there suppose to go but what's this...
The lowest RAMsink touches the heatpipe. Time to get creative!
I had to be creative too with the VRMsinks (cut) to make them fit nicely and put the remaining elsewhere. Here's the results.
Now it's time to put the heatsink on. Fortunatly there a sitcky part on under the sink to hold those small stupid o-rings (spacers). The screws are tiny, so i make sure not to overtighten them. I was a bit of a pain but i managed to complete the installation without screwing things up. Voila! The new 4870.
A word of warning to those who uses crossfire. I'm not sure, but i think that it will interfere with CF bridges. Once the cooler is installed, It will take 3 slot. I'm not kidding. Have a look:
This is what it looked like when i put it back into my case.
Now for the testing. I do not have screenies or picture anymore. My super duper testing was the following:
Check idle temp with GPU-Z, Run 3Dmark06 "Firefly" test loop 6 time in a row and re-checked load temp. Not the best, but it will do.
STOCK FAN running 35% (2400RPM) 51 IDLE / 63 LOAD Not too bad! Btw, I had AS-5 on stock cooler to help.
Twin Turbo running 75% (1800RPM) 43 IDLE / 47 LOAD WOW!
I'm still using the CCC fan "tweak" trick. but WOW!!! The RPM is much lower then other one. That's a 33% difference! The cooler is super quiet. I tried setting the fan at 35% but the RPM speed in GPU-Z was really messed up and i had similar stock temps at that speed, too low i guess. Remember that the thermal paste has not truly set yet. So temps should improve with time. Overall, I'm really impressed with the Accelero Twin Turbo. For a single card user like me. It's pretty "Cool".
PRO's:
Great cooling
Low noise
Lots of heatsinks
3 pins + 4 pins to connect directly to the card.
6 year Warrenty
CON's: :shadedshu
Uses 3 slots
May interfere with CF bridges
4870 requires twinking.
I'll leave the scoring stuff to the real review guys.
Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo VGA cooler
I was quite happy when i saw the purolator truck stop in front of my house. Usually, i'm not home and i have to retreive any drop offs at their wherehouse wich i hate to go to. I wanted that cooler ever since it was announced. I immediately went to work! Here's a pic of the package.
We all know that the stock cooler does it's job as long as you "tweak" the fan settings to decrease those horrendous temperatures but at the expense of silence. More cooling = more noise. Anything above 50% fan speed begins to get very annoying. At 65% it sounds like a jet engine for me at least.
Accelero TWIN TURBO Main features
• Unmatched cooling performance – up to 120W
• Efficient heat transfer via 4 heatpipes and 30 fins
• Two ultra quiet 80mm fans with low noise impeller
• Patented fan holder eliminates the buzzing sound
• RAM and voltage regulator cooling
• SLi and Crossfire compatible
• Pre-applied MX-2
• Lightweight, transport safe
• 6 year warranty
If you want more details on this product, i suggest you visit their website:
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=166
The package included 8 RAMsink, 4 VRMsink, A pack of tiny screws and rings, A metal slot thingy, a 3 pin adapter to connect to the psu, the instructions and a nice sticker!
BEWARE! The instructions does not cover the 4850 / 4870. Check here for how to.
The fan has both 3 pins and 4 pins. The 4 pins can connect directly to the card so you can adjust the fan settings if need be.
Here's a shot of my Visiontek HD4870 with the stock cooler and one without it.
I used a cleaning solution made by 3M to clean the GPU, the Memory and the VRM to make sure that the small aluminum sink "stick" well. I hate to put these on. I usually put them on crooked.
After everything was cleaned up, i took the small stickers off the back of the sinks to stick them where there suppose to go but what's this...
The lowest RAMsink touches the heatpipe. Time to get creative!
I had to be creative too with the VRMsinks (cut) to make them fit nicely and put the remaining elsewhere. Here's the results.
Now it's time to put the heatsink on. Fortunatly there a sitcky part on under the sink to hold those small stupid o-rings (spacers). The screws are tiny, so i make sure not to overtighten them. I was a bit of a pain but i managed to complete the installation without screwing things up. Voila! The new 4870.
A word of warning to those who uses crossfire. I'm not sure, but i think that it will interfere with CF bridges. Once the cooler is installed, It will take 3 slot. I'm not kidding. Have a look:
This is what it looked like when i put it back into my case.
Now for the testing. I do not have screenies or picture anymore. My super duper testing was the following:
Check idle temp with GPU-Z, Run 3Dmark06 "Firefly" test loop 6 time in a row and re-checked load temp. Not the best, but it will do.
STOCK FAN running 35% (2400RPM) 51 IDLE / 63 LOAD Not too bad! Btw, I had AS-5 on stock cooler to help.
Twin Turbo running 75% (1800RPM) 43 IDLE / 47 LOAD WOW!
I'm still using the CCC fan "tweak" trick. but WOW!!! The RPM is much lower then other one. That's a 33% difference! The cooler is super quiet. I tried setting the fan at 35% but the RPM speed in GPU-Z was really messed up and i had similar stock temps at that speed, too low i guess. Remember that the thermal paste has not truly set yet. So temps should improve with time. Overall, I'm really impressed with the Accelero Twin Turbo. For a single card user like me. It's pretty "Cool".
PRO's:
Great cooling
Low noise
Lots of heatsinks
3 pins + 4 pins to connect directly to the card.
6 year Warrenty
CON's: :shadedshu
Uses 3 slots
May interfere with CF bridges
4870 requires twinking.
I'll leave the scoring stuff to the real review guys.
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