Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 5870 Review
What's In the Box?
Published: 20th September 2010 | Source: Arctic Cooling | Price: £49.98 |
What's in the box?
The packaging is absolutely an exercise in minimalism. A very sturdy plastic tray-style box keeps everything well protected whilst also minimising waste as much as possible.
Once the two side flaps are flipped open (MUCH easier than those awful blister pack style ones) we find everything we would expect to see.
It's difficult to view the Accelero Xtreme without comparing it to the Prolimatech MK-13 I recently reviewed. Here we have two RAM heatsinks instead of about 30, and the two different screw types are kept separate to reduce installation woes.
The heatsink itself is primarily functional, but actually manages to still look good nonetheless. It's a design that's been around a while now and it's good to see Arctic Cooling employing the adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
The fan design is one of the more modern ones that uses lots of little fins rather than four or five huge ones. This has a large bearing upon the noise output and so hopefully should ensure the cooler is quiet.
83 fins and 5 big heatpipes are provided to give enormous heat absorption capacity.
Speaking of the heatpipes, how gorgeous is this? A total work of art. The build-quality is exceptional and the amount of copper belies how light it actually is. It also comes with the excellent Arctic Cooling MX2 paste pre-applied for even swifter installation.
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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Excellent review.
that will go onto my wish list
And, as always, the review is great!
And, silenthill, I believe you are looking for this.
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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.
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.
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Originally Posted by fillthevoid
Does this cooler fit non-reference cards? |
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