Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 5870 Review
Introduction
Published: 20th September 2010 | Source: Arctic Cooling | Price: £49.98 |
Introduction
Now the 5 series of graphics cards from ATI have been around for a long while there are plenty on the market that come with specialist coolers and lots of fancy little bits and bobs to differentiate them from the rest of the pack.
XFX, Sapphire and HiS to name but three all offer a card that comes with a bespoke cooler that claim to make their model cooler and quieter than the reference design.
It's all well and good because all want cooler to either allow a greater overclocking headroom or less head dumped into your system, and quieter is something we all aspire to. Often though these non-reference designs are compromised by the need to look good and have enough spare room available for the manufacturer branding.
What if you've already got a graphics card though and just want it to be cooler and quieter without having to fork out for an entirely new card?
Enter Arctic Cooling and their Accelero Xtreme range. A lot of third-party vendors use a re-badged Arctic Cooling solution thanks to their multi-award winning performance. Anyone who owned one of the extremely desirable Asus 4870X2 Tri-Fan models had an Accelero Xtreme.
Today we're going to see if their Accelero Xtreme 5870 model can really make a difference to the temperatures of our card and get remotely close to Arctic Coolings low-noise claims.
Technical Data
Far and away the biggest eye-opener in the specifications for the Accelero are Arctic Coolings claims for both the noise and temperature performance of their cooler. We're used to manufacturers making lofty claims, but can this really be almost silent and extremely cool? Those two things rarely make for comfortable bedfellows as the need for silence always means less cooling performance, and vice versa.
| Dimensions | 290 x 104 x 56 mm (L W H) |
| Fan | 3 x 92mm |
| Fan Speed | 900 to 2000 RPM (PWM) |
| Fan Noise | 0.5 Sone @100% compared to 5.2 Sone for ref @ 100% |
| Air Flow | 81 CFM @ 2000 RPM |
| Max Cooling Capacity | 250 W |
| Bearing Type | Fluid Dynamic Bearing |
| Weight | 632g |
| Cooling Performance | 36 °C cooler than reference @ 100% fans |
| Warranty | 6 Years |
Let's get a look at the cooler in detail and go through the installation procedure.
Most Recent Comments
Finally.. Finally they have sorted out their stick down solution.
It's expensive but by crikey it's worth it. Excellent results as before, but before you had the constant 'crap your pants' feeling that the sinks were going to fall off.
Orsum !
(Ta for the review as ever
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that will go onto my wish listQuote
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Originally Posted by silenthill
what if I put this cooler on one of my 480? of coerce it wouldn't fit, but I can be creative  |
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Originally Posted by Delusion77
Wow! Amazing results on this beast! I think this + Dh14 proves that watercooling is no longer needed. |
but I do get your drift
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Originally Posted by SnW
Ones ambient temps go up its better to have WC IMHO so i kinda disagree but I do get your drift |
And its true what you say about crossfire, but again if you look at if for the average enthusiast (not extreme), tri and quad xfire/sli are much more expensive and cant be justified when on a budget.
my current build has a watercooled cpu - and i used to have a 4870x2 in the loop aswell. My gpu just stopped working and i didnt have enough cash to afford a replacement gpu and re plumb it back into the loop. Im also looking at AMD's bulldozer as a future cpu upgrade, and might end up selling my current pc, and rebuilding completely cooled by air.Quote
Looks a dammed good solution and as mentioned justifying the water route becomes harder with these alternatives.
Would be nice to have a backplate solution for the exposed part of the card, usually fully visible in a windowed pc, just to keep it tidy.Quote
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Originally Posted by fillthevoid
Does this cooler fit non-reference cards? |
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