Arctic Cooling Accelero X1??

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syukton

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I've never installed an aftermarket GPU cooling solution, always sticking with stock. But I've noticed that of my two XFX 7800GTX cards, the one closer to my CPU runs about 8 degrees celsius hotter! I'm seeing core temps of 60C on the lower card and 68C on the card near the cpu when at full graphical load. This is way too hot in my mind and I'd like to bring these temps down.

I just saw in the Hot|DEALS forum that the Arctic Cooling Accelero X1 is on sale at SVC. What are your experiences with this cooler? Will I achieve the temperature drop I'm looking for?

Thanks in advance!
 
Actually, that is not even close to way to hot

Personally, if you have a motherboard with the extra space in between the PCIe slots, i would get 2 NV Silencer 5s (rev 3)

Perform nearly as good as Accelero but exhaust hot air and look cool

But simply for the X1, it is a great GPU cooler, really quiet and easy to install(line up the holes and tighten basically). However it does exhaust hot air onto the motherboard directly
 
Maximum PC gave the Acceleros Kick Ass awards, I think....they look cool but I'm really not that much into GFX card OCing on my next rig based on what I'm hearing about 7900GTX delta issues....and I don't think it's worth it to OC a pair of cards that cost $529 each....
 
I remember reading a review of the Accelero and I remeber that is said it blew chunks...

I wish I could remeber who it was. I do remeber it was a decent site.

If I run across the article I will post a link.
 
Dude, 68C load temp is very cool for a 7800GTX, you shouldn't even bother with another cooler if these were the real temps, BTW what u do use to monitor temps?
 
I've just been leaving the control panel applet open and watching the temp of the hotter GPU. Most of my gaming can be done windowed.

68C Just seems way hot to me, I mean that's 154.4 degrees F... I don't tend to run my CPUs hotter than 42C (107.6F). I guess I'm just weird or something? :D
 
This is just the nature of the beast here bro..., GPUs run way hotter than CPUs, an AMD Athlon 64 contains around 60 million transistors while the G70 GPU - the heart of yr 7800GTX- has over 300 million transistors...
 
Sovereign said:
Maximum PC gave the Acceleros Kick Ass awards, I think....they look cool but I'm really not that much into GFX card OCing on my next rig based on what I'm hearing about 7900GTX delta issues....and I don't think it's worth it to OC a pair of cards that cost $529 each....
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he has 7800gtxs
 
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