Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME 4870X2 VGA Cooler

chicabobo · Post by **chicabobo** » Fri May 29, 2009 10:39 am

Hello, I am fairly new to video cards and I'm hoping you guys can share your quiet cooling experience with me.

Anyways, I have a XFX 4870 X2 and its overheating a lot. I need to find a cooler for it so I can play Fallout 3 for more than 10 min at time...

I've been waiting for the Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME 4870X2 VGA Cooler for months now and they are finally available for pre-order. I'd ask how quiet it is but it hasnt been out yet.

I'm in a rush so I was wanting to know if I should wait for the AC 4870 X2 (arrives June 2nd) or get something like the Thermalright T-Rad2 instead which is readily available.

Thanks!

~El~Jefe~ · Post by **~El~Jefe~** » Fri May 29, 2009 10:04 pm

those fans look quite impressive. I would do accelero. 50 Celsius claim is bold. 1000 rpm should be quiet.

chicabobo · Post by **chicabobo** » Fri May 29, 2009 10:24 pm

I agree a 50c drop is pretty out there. But I guess it depends on how crappy to your stock video cooler is. Mine seems like the worst. Either that or I play games too much.

~El~Jefe~ · Post by **~El~Jefe~** » Sat May 30, 2009 7:07 am

well, I have a zalman water cooling setup connected to my 3870 card. The card stays from 41 C idle (so ati reports in their thing) to like 48 Celsius on load. This is drastically better than stock. I can even overclock it from 777mhz to 850 mhz, and the ram from 1126 to 1280 and the temperatures on load move up only like 2 C at best. I am sure a 4870x2 probably goes up to 80's C on load, so maybe this cooler is super effecient.

I would trust that you made the right purchase. It looks difficult to install though. You have to balance it on two gpu's and make it all even. My multi waterblock from zalman had to contact all the ram, the vrm and gpu in a level manner. Getting all those parts to perfectly lie flat was really hard, like took me more than a half hour for just that, maybe longer just tweaking screws and applying loads of pressure.

chicabobo · Post by **chicabobo** » Sat May 30, 2009 9:45 am

Hmmmm, maybe I should rethink my whole approach. My goal is stability and silence so maybe I should just bite the bullet and go full water cooling.

I thought the Arctic Cooling VGA cooler was expensive but water cooling is a real investment. A high quality water block is apparently in the 150 to 180 range.

For example:
http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/ek-radeo ... ickel.html

I bet thats awesome though...

yensteel · Post by **yensteel** » Sat May 30, 2009 8:45 pm

Do you guys think it's a good idea to swap the fans with 3 normal 92mm fans?

chicabobo · Post by **chicabobo** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:06 pm

I just wanted to follow up and say how awesome the Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME 4870X2 is! I've had it installed for a few days and its very quiet and dropped my temps down a lot!

Here are my temps while gaming:

Accelero hd4870x2 60% fan speed (Dead silent).
Core 1: 46c core2: 44c

KansaKilla · Post by **KansaKilla** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:48 pm

good gosh, that's low.

can't wait for the gtx 280 version to be more widely available.

chicabobo · Post by **chicabobo** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:15 pm

The gtx 280 version seems pretty widely available to me. HeatsinkFactory is where I got my 4870X2 and they have the GTX280 in stock here:
http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/arctic-c ... ooler.html

Frozencpu has them too but they are about 3 bucks more then HeatsinkFactory.

JackyPerformance.com · Post by **JackyPerformance.com** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:21 pm

is it still performing quietly? I'm thinking of getting that same cooler for a Antec mini p180 build.

yensteel · Post by **yensteel** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:59 pm

I'm curious about the vram temperatures. It's always the most overlooked aspect of video card cooling.

What rpm is 60%?

Anyways, thanks for the follow-up.

cano003 · Post by **cano003** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:37 pm

hi! I am happy that you test Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME 4870X2, but...I am looking for it, in Spain they dont sell it . Â¿Which online store sell this fan?...in Europe or USA.

Thank you

ibdoomed · Post by **ibdoomed** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:18 am

I finally obtained my AC 4870x2 coolers and temps droppped from mostly 90C+ to 51C during furmark. The fan at 100% is even audible with the soundproofed case closed whereas the stock fan was too loud to game on at 40%. I took some pics but I can't post them yet I guess.

ibdoomed · Post by **ibdoomed** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:19 am

chicabobo wrote:Hmmmm, maybe I should rethink my whole approach. My goal is stability and silence so maybe I should just bite the bullet and go full water cooling.

I thought the Arctic Cooling VGA cooler was expensive but water cooling is a real investment. A high quality water block is apparently in the 150 to 180 range.

I bet thats awesome though...

WC is definitely the best but, at least for me, this is install it and forget it. Where WC is constantly worry about it and make sure it's ok.

ibdoomed · Post by **ibdoomed** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:20 am

Here's the pics:

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