Last night I spent an hour installing the Arctic Cooler Accelero Twin Turbo on my XFX 5870. There was a sticker on the packing saying "new compatibility 5870!" so I don't know if this version is different from the others I've seen before. I did notice there seemed to be two heatsinks that I didn't see in other pictures before and they had adhesive stickers that were different from the rest indicating they were new additions to the package.These ones are like the old VRM heatsinks except they have an L-shaped step and larger fins to clear the resistors that sit behind the VRMs on the 5870. I added some arctic silver between some of the heatsinks that touch each other so they could share heat but that was probably pretty useless but I did it ayway.
Here's how it looks after I installed every heatsink that came in the package. Clearance was fine, it all it fits with the main cooling unit installed. The only thing that disturbs me is how heavy the cards is now with how long the PCB is, when installed in a system that has an upside down motherboard, it actually causes the entire card to sag.
Card is sagging to the left, looks like it's slightly angled. Works fine though.
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