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Preface:
I wanted to share this with fellow [H]ard-Forum members who wants silence as well as performance w/o going the water cooling route.
I found these in stock early last week @ performance-pcs.com for $75! Much cheaper then newegg or anywhere else that even had them in stock.
Performance PCs even had gentle typhoon AP 15s in stock, which is a rare thing.
I AM NOT advertising or is associated with them in anyway. Just wanted to pass the word incase those who want to find them:
The preparation:
While waiting for my Accelero 7970s to arrive I wanted to do some prep work.
Knowing that changing my 7970s from exhaust blower style of cooler into the type that dump heat into the case. I took the steps to improve airflow in my Corsair 600T.
I removed the front/top punch grill for better air flow.
Next, added Typhoons AP 15s in my SSD hard drive age for added cold air in take. These sit above the main 200MM in take.
The main event:
Goodies arrived.
Cards going under surgery.
As other reviewers have said,
Mounting those bloody spacers are a fucking pain if you aren't careful.
Arctic Cooling really need to include EXTRAs double sided tape.
For those that are doing this, you NEED an x-acto type of knife to extract the stuff carefully.
I set mine over night to cure.
I had one heatsink that failed to bond out of the 20 or so per card so that wasn't so bad. I noticed the back of the card had an exact type of chip that wasn't cooled so I wasn't too worried about it.
You need lots of q-tips, rubbing alcohol and cotton balls if you want good adhesion.
Here is the accelero into the case for reference vs a stock one.
And here is both installed.
I wanted to share this with fellow [H]ard-Forum members who wants silence as well as performance w/o going the water cooling route.
I found these in stock early last week @ performance-pcs.com for $75! Much cheaper then newegg or anywhere else that even had them in stock.
Performance PCs even had gentle typhoon AP 15s in stock, which is a rare thing.
I AM NOT advertising or is associated with them in anyway. Just wanted to pass the word incase those who want to find them:
The preparation:
While waiting for my Accelero 7970s to arrive I wanted to do some prep work.
Knowing that changing my 7970s from exhaust blower style of cooler into the type that dump heat into the case. I took the steps to improve airflow in my Corsair 600T.
I removed the front/top punch grill for better air flow.
Next, added Typhoons AP 15s in my SSD hard drive age for added cold air in take. These sit above the main 200MM in take.
The main event:
Goodies arrived.
Cards going under surgery.
As other reviewers have said,
Mounting those bloody spacers are a fucking pain if you aren't careful.
Arctic Cooling really need to include EXTRAs double sided tape.
For those that are doing this, you NEED an x-acto type of knife to extract the stuff carefully.
I set mine over night to cure.
I had one heatsink that failed to bond out of the 20 or so per card so that wasn't so bad. I noticed the back of the card had an exact type of chip that wasn't cooled so I wasn't too worried about it.
You need lots of q-tips, rubbing alcohol and cotton balls if you want good adhesion.
Here is the accelero into the case for reference vs a stock one.
And here is both installed.
