Arctic Cooling Accelero S2 - Passive Graphics Cooler
Introduction, Packaging, Package and Specification
Published: 21st May 2007 | Source: Arctic Cooling | Price: |
Founded pretty recently in 2001, Arctic Cooling have built a reputation of being able to quietly cool your GPU very well. Swiss engineered and Chinese manufactured they have really dominated the market in VGA cooling, as well as putting out some very nice CPU coolers.
The Arctic Cooling Accelero S2 is a passive heatpipe solution for a whole range of GPU's. With that in mind we took the rather noisy heatsink of one of our test PC's and put it to the test.
Packaging
Arctic Cooling have gone with the blister style of packaging that many cooling manufacturers are picking for their products nowadays. Not only is this great for ease of opening for the consumer, but it allows you to see what you're buying before you buy it.
With a very minimalistic style of packaging Arctic Cooling have let the S2 speak for itself. It certainly looks impressive in it's sheer size.
Package
Arctic Cooling have included everything you will need in the package of the S2, included is:
* 8 x RAM sinks
* 1 x PCI backplate
* Screws and plastic holders
* 1 x Arctic Cooling Case Sticker
* 1 x Instruction Manual
With plenty of heatsinks for onboard RAM and everything you would need to get the cooler installed on any of the supported cards listed you can't be disappointed with the package.
Specification
Taken from Arctic Cooling's website
With a broad range of GPU's supported on the S2, and pretty much most of the rest of the current (including the x1900 and 8800) cards supported on the Accelero S1, Arctic Cooling have done well on compatibility.
Right now let's take a look at the cooler...
Package
Arctic Cooling have included everything you will need in the package of the S2, included is:
* 8 x RAM sinks
* 1 x PCI backplate
* Screws and plastic holders
* 1 x Arctic Cooling Case Sticker
* 1 x Instruction Manual
With plenty of heatsinks for onboard RAM and everything you would need to get the cooler installed on any of the supported cards listed you can't be disappointed with the package.
Specification
Taken from Arctic Cooling's website
| Heat Sink: 140(L) x 188(W) x 32(H) mm Heat pipe: 6 mm x 2 Weight: 202 g Accessories: 8 Memory Heat Sinks Warranty: 6 Years Application: ATI: X1650, X1600, X1550, X1300, X1050 series X850, X800, X700, X600, X550, X300 series 9XXX series nVIDIA: GeForce 7600, 7300, 6600 series FX 5950, 5900, 5700 (Ultra) series FX 5600, 5500, 5200 series GeForce 4 Ti, MX series |
With a broad range of GPU's supported on the S2, and pretty much most of the rest of the current (including the x1900 and 8800) cards supported on the Accelero S1, Arctic Cooling have done well on compatibility.
Right now let's take a look at the cooler...
Most Recent Comments
Awesome Review 
And WOW, 37C using an entirely passive cooler? That's pretty damn nice!
How heavy is that thing btw? I looks like it would put a lot of stress on the card.
And WOW, 37C using an entirely passive cooler? That's pretty damn nice!
How heavy is that thing btw? I looks like it would put a lot of stress on the card.
I know I was quite honestly shocked. I had to check and double check the figures
Jeeze thats big. You rekon it could cope with the load of an 8800 though kemp? Maybe if you added a fan?
Well the S1 has 4 heatpipes and an add-in fan module so i would guess you'd be ok.
Wow that is insanely large, but awesome temps. Great review as usual Kemp 
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