Shopping CartArctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus II Cooler – DCACO-V15G200-BL
date : February 12th, 2012PC Components
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- Employing the award-winning design of the Accelero XTREME series, the Accelero XTREME Plus II comes with 300 Watts of cooling capacity, which gives plenty of headroom for overclocking.
- It is comprised of an 83-fin aluminum heatsink with 5 copper heatpipes to deliver superior cooling performance. Pre-applied with our flagship thermal compound MX-4, efficient heat dissipation of the components are guaranteed.
- The Accelero XTREME Plus II comes with the non-conductive G-1 thermal glue which is used to affix RAM and VR heatsinks on the VGA board.
- It is especially formulated to offer excellent thermal conductivity with long-lasting adhesiveness of over 10 years. Moreover, removing the G-1 is as easy as removing a thermal tape.
- With three PWM-controlled 92 mm fans, the Accelero XTREME Plus II cools efficiently and silently. Thanks to the PWM control, the fan spins according to the temperature of the GPU.
- Aside from it being CrossFire and SLI compatible, the Accelero XTREME Plus II comes with a versatile and interchangeable mounting mechanism along with 31 RAM and VR heatsinks to fit different models.
- New accessory sets will be available to make the VGA cooler compatible with future models.
- This means that the fans just spin up if necessary and will rest at minimum speed otherwise. PWM settings can be modified to fix the priorities between performance and noise. Click here to see how PWM settings work.
The Accelero XTREME Plus II is here to satisfy overclockers with unmatched cooling performance while doing it in total silence.
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Excellent Cooler,
This is the best performing cooler I have owned. It’s big, but that’s why it’s the best. It’s simple physics: to dissipate heat you must have surface area. The Arctic Accelero Xtreme Plus II has lots of surface area.
I’ve got this bad-boy installed on an MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III PE/OC card. At idle, I have a temp of 42C with a silent 35% fan speed. While gaming at 1680×1050, temp stays less than 55C with the fan speed at 65%, which is audible, but still very quiet. Note that I run at 1680×1050 resolution, so your performance may vary.
At 100% the triple fans produce what I’d describe as an innocuous medium-pitch hum (not annoying to me at all) and a wooosh of air. Quieter than some stock case fans. But there’s no need for me to run at 100% speed.
You may be asking…why would I replace the fancy Twin Frozr III that came on the card? Well, good performing and pretty cooler, but I wanted both the high quality build of this particular graphics card and the quietest air-cooler I could get. I am a stickler for quiet. At idle, my computer is barely audible from 2 feet away in a silent room.
Installation was easy, plastic stand-offs were perfect for my card. the mx-4 thermal paste that comes on the cooler performs great…no need to replace it. The G-1 thermal glue (for the RAM and VR heatsinks) is great…performs better than tape and can be removed.
The only caveats are
- The length of the cooler: installed on my 6950 card, from the slot-plate to the end of the cooler is 12.3 inches/31.3cm. And you need 3 slots height.
- (as mentioned in another review here) The fan shroud is about 2-3mm too close to the power connectors, so I removed (broke off) the locking clips from the connectors and they juuuust fit without modding the shroud or heatsink fins.
If you have the space and don’t mind a little simple modding on the power connectors, you can’t do any better than this cooler.
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|Excellent cooling, very poor installation fit. Be prepared to do some modding.,
Installed it on my Sapphire Dirt 3 Edition HD6950 [...]
There were two MAJOR problems. First, the plastic stand offs are too long, even the shortest 3mm ones. Glad I did a test fit because the copper bottom of the heatsink had at least a 1.5mm gap, not touching the GPU core at all! So I had to trim the stand offs a little to get it to fit correctly. So if you plan on using Artic Silver, you definitely need to check if it’s touching the core or not, otherwise you can resort to using a thick TIM pad, but then what’s the point of using an aftermarket cooler with such an inefficient heat transfer?
Second, there is not enough space between the top of the heat sink fins to be able to fit the PCI-E power connectors. And if you use a “shorter” HD6950 board like mine, the plastic shroud of the Accelero completely blocks it as well, I hastily trimmed the plastic to get it to fit, and bent the heatsink fins with plier to allow the PCI-E power connectors to fit.
That said, my HD6950 went from idling at 55C to now idling at 46C. In Furmark burn-in it tops out at 62C vs. 84C with the stock cooling.
And the fans don’t really spin any faster than idle. So it’s really really quiet. I did crank the fans to 100% in Catalyst Control Center to see how loud it got. Certainly louder, but a much nicer lower octave sound, more like a 5.25″ Optical drive spinning than the whiny hair drier-like sound of the fans in the stock one. And overall much quieter even at 100%.
So for cooling performance, I give it 5 Stars.
For installation and fit, I give it 1 Star.
I average it to 2 Stars since it was such a pain to install it.
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|Very cool but very, very large.,
I installed this on my Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 2 GB DDR5 DL-DVI-I/SL-DVI-D/HDMI/Dual Mini DP PCI-Express Graphics Card 100311SR.
I will add some pictures later on to demonstrate the point… But what other reviewers say should not be taken lightly. This cooler will add inches to the length of an already long video card. If you do not have a large, full ATX case, try the Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo Pro Cooler – DCACO-V3400-BLA01. You are warned!
Installing this cooler is also quite challenging. I don’t think I mixed the glue right because after 12 hours, the heat sinks on the RAM and other chips were not all stuck in place. I used the provided thermal tape to correct the loose ones. I would estimate it took about two hours to prep and install the heat sinks. Then 12 hours of waiting………. Then I mounted the heatsink/radiator with the smallest provided spacers. I thought it looked like the heatsink wasn’t making good contact with the GPU. This was confirmed almost immediately. My idle temp was 60C+. Running a load caused the temp to instantly jump to 90C and then break 100C. I clicked “stop” quite fast. My HD6970 has thermal protection, so it would have just cut the load until the temps were under control but I didn’t want to test that theory.
I ordered this cooler in hopes that I could use the radiator without the fans to create a passively cooled HD6970. Once I stuck the card in my system, I realized that I was never going to get to use factory fans. I just didn’t have room. I was only able to get the card with the cooler to fit by angling in carefully as I inserted it into the case.
Without any fans at idle, the GPU ran much cooler than the original design. I cranked up the load using a BitCoin miner and watched the temperature gradually increase. I stopped the load once the card approached 100C. It was still climbing at that point so this card was a no-go for passive cooling.
As an alternative, I set a 120mm fan in the case near the GPU to create some air flow over the fins. This brought the load temps down to about 85C. This is really impressive because a single 120mm fan is near silent AND the load temp held steady LOWER than what I was seeing with the factory cooler at 100%. You did NOT want to be in the same room as the computer when that factory cooler ran that fast. So with just a little focused airflow, this cooler can approach near silence at full load. I could probably spend some time improving the airflow throughout the case and get similar results.
At the end of that test, I checked the cooler and found the fins away from the slot to be very, very hot. I wish I had an IR thermometer to check out the temps. I pulled the card and used zip-ties to mounts two 120mm fans to the radiator. This arrangement fit in my case albeit very tight. The end result is an HD6970 that idles pretty much at ambient temps. At full load, it rarely broke 60C.
Considering that the stock cooler idled at 60C, I’m quite impressed.
I realized I didn’t need the 1.5Tflops that the HD6950 generates and that silence mattered more. In the end, I decided to pick up a true passively-cooled PowerColor ATI Radeon HD5750 SCS3 1 GB DDR5 2DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card 1 GBD5-S3DH. I do wish I had gone that route since I managed to get the SCS3 for about the same price as this cooler.
If you are a gamer and run an HD6970, this is a worthwhile investment. If you run an SLI config, you may have trouble as the cooler causes the card to take up three slots instead of just two.
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