Arctic Cooling Accelero X1800XT Cooler

[dnottis]

Review to come....

[ken]

wow... show us some temps as soon as you can

[Jort]

So the exhaust is pointing to the pci-e Slot? mhh

[dnottis]

So the exhaust is pointing to the pci-e Slot? mhh

Yup. Or in the case of the DFI mobos right onto the chipset / chipset cooler.

[dinos22]

Yup. Or in the case of the DFI mobos right onto the chipset / chipset cooler.

wtf were they thinking there.....and then the hot air just bounces back.....i'm gobsmacked....someone please tell me there is a logical explanation for this stupid idea

[chinkgai]

wtf were they thinking there.....and then the hot air just bounces back.....i'm gobsmacked....someone please tell me there is a logical explanation for this stupid idea

QFT

[chinkgai]

oh, a closer look at the package...x1900 series compatible

[dinos22]

QFT

what does that mean

[.sentinel]

Sry for thread crap but a review from TechPowerup. You shoudl probably see similar results.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...ng/AcceleroX2/

[dnottis]

Sry for thread crap but a review from TechPowerup. You shoudl probably see similar results.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...ng/AcceleroX2/

The XL doesnt put out nearly the heat of an X1800XT, especially when the X1800XT is overclocked. I have it installed and am gathering results.

I can run max CCC or the PE bios with my Zalman VF-700 - I wont yet say how the Accelero fares at 700/800

[chinkgai]

The XL doesnt put out nearly the heat of an X1800XT, especially when the X1800XT is overclocked. I have it installed and am gathering results.

I can run max CCC or the PE bios with my Zalman VF-700 - I wont yet say how the Accelero fares at 700/800

oooh yeah u got the zalman!

dont forget to compare at different fan speeds for all the coolers please!

we all know how u hate the stock at 100 percent...but jes walk out of the room or turn up a radio or something


edit: just read that review over at ngohq...

We will find out how the first GPU cooler with heat pipes technology performs.

maybe someone should tell them about the thermalright v-1

[trakslacker]

edit: just read that review over at ngohq...



maybe someone should tell them about the thermalright v-1

hehe, didn't say it was a good review, just that its a review.

[dnottis]

I wonder why they didnt do any overclocking tests? Wonder if his results were as dismal as mine?

[chinkgai]

quoted for truth

i read that review at techpowerup...isnt it kind of irrelevant to compare to the xt since the xl doesnt exhaust the hot air out like the xt does? nice review though. good pics...looks like the quality has improved cuz i really was unhappy with the last arctic cooling product i used, which was with the x800 series


that being said, i cant wait for ur review dnottis!

[dinos22]

quoted for truth

sorry man still don't get the meaning of your comment.......must be something in the hot Sydney air today

[trakslacker]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=85318

review on an XT: http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=a...read&arc_id=63

[chinkgai]

QFT is an accronym for Quoted For Truth

i "quoted you for truth" = i agree with you and u speak the truth.

[dinos22]

QFT is an accronym for Quoted For Truth

i "quoted you for truth" = i agree with you and u speak the truth.

sorry for confusion......didn't know about that acronym

[chinkgai]

isnt stock 1.8 for the mem? thats what it says in the overclocking tool...do i have to manually set it to 2.0ish volts?

[eva2000]

stock is 2.097v

x1800 oc'ing tool displays incorrect mem voltage

[Ator]

stock is 2.097v

x1800 oc'ing tool displays incorrect mem voltage

Yeah I know. That was with ATI Tool. I could barely hit 860 before playing with the voltages.

[eva2000]

interesting about the washers...

[drunkenmaster]

gonna say it cos hopefully someone sometime will listen.

a lot of users don't use pci cards, 99%, well, 99.999999% of people don't use sli, therefore a shedload of users have soooo much space under their gfx card for a MASSIVE and proper heatsink. won't for the love of god someone design an easy to attach huge alu sink with a proper fan. these blower style sideways air moving fans move almost no air and are pretty much just crap.

hell a xp120 is dead light, make a slightly smaller one with a diff base that can attach to a core and you will get amazing cooling. cathar proved it with watercooling, same principles apply PRESSURE, air being pushed at proper speeds and pressure downward onto fins/base cools much better than air simply being lighly pushed with little pressure/speed along fins won't ever cool aswell. hell even for people that have pci cards there is often a lot of space down past the pci cards close to the side panel area. you could have a xp120 style sink with the heatpipes sticking straight out towards side panel then turning down at 90 degrees with all the fins and the fan out the way. just getting bored of the same design being recycled over and over with no improvement whatsoever and with a design so limited in its cooling capability its a joke.

anyway, like i said gonna keep mentioning it in threads till someone somewhere notices.

[Always]

gonna say it cos hopefully someone sometime will listen.

a lot of users don't use pci cards, 99%, well, 99.999999% of people don't use sli, therefore a shedload of users have soooo much space under their gfx card for a MASSIVE and proper heatsink. won't for the love of god someone design an easy to attach huge alu sink with a proper fan. these blower style sideways air moving fans move almost no air and are pretty much just crap.

hell a xp120 is dead light, make a slightly smaller one with a diff base that can attach to a core and you will get amazing cooling. cathar proved it with watercooling, same principles apply PRESSURE, air being pushed at proper speeds and pressure downward onto fins/base cools much better than air simply being lighly pushed with little pressure/speed along fins won't ever cool aswell. hell even for people that have pci cards there is often a lot of space down past the pci cards close to the side panel area. you could have a xp120 style sink with the heatpipes sticking straight out towards side panel then turning down at 90 degrees with all the fins and the fan out the way. just getting bored of the same design being recycled over and over with no improvement whatsoever and with a design so limited in its cooling capability its a joke.

anyway, like i said gonna keep mentioning it in threads till someone somewhere notices.

You mean doing what I've done here with an sp97?

Click to see my original post

[drunkenmaster]

You mean doing what I've done here with an sp97?

Click to see my original post

basically yes, but i'm talking about something commercially available with no difficulties mounting, no jury rigging, something as easy to mount in 2 minutes as a zalman gpu sink. something along the lines of xp120 would be great as its so light and cools extremely well. with the xp97, IIRC its a huge lump of copper , heavy and not something you'd maybe want pulling down on a gfx card. but thats the thing, ANY proper cpu styled sink will simply crap all over any current gfx cooling stock or 3rd party thats available right now(ignoring watercooling).

i have no idea why they haven't noticed that, well, most people i know use onboard sound, lots of people have so much space and how hard is it to take an exsisting cpu sink design and just adjust base to have mounting slots for gfx cards.

you don't have to make some huge block that covers mem as all the sinks i've seen do it are so inaccurate spacing wise that you use so much paste(on the arctic coolers i've used in the past) to make contact you are just insulating the memory. oh, and not to mention thats the reason it takes SO long to get new compatible arctic coolers out(cos they just have to cover the memory ¬_¬ ) that the next freaking gen is out this time before the arctic cooler is available, if you don't cover the memory then old mounting would probably work. hence the zalman gpu sink fitting almost every card out no problem at all.