ARCTIC Accelero Twin Turbo II VGA Cooler - nVidia & AMD, Dual Quiet 92mm PWM Fans, SLI/CrossFire

Performance: I put the Accelero Xtreme IV 280 (X) cooler on my new  Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Tri-X OC 3GB graphics card . Stock cooler worked well enough, but at anything over 30% fan speed, it was simply too loud (and it RATTLES!) for me. This new cooler from Arctic has the card idling at least 8°F (5°C) cooler, and 25°F (14°C) cooler at load. It's also significantly quieter at 100% fan speed than the stock cooler at 30%. I have not overclocked my card further, but it is factory-overclocked.Installation: By far the most complex of any after-market cooler I've ever used. I expected that, with the backside cooler. You will need a permanent marker and a box cutter or X-acto/hobby knife for the protective film for the backside cooler (necessary to keep the exposed metal parts of your graphics card from coming into direct contact with backside heatsink and causing shorts). The included thermal pads for VRAM and "hot component areas" tend to stick to your fingers during install, and it was difficult to get them to stay where I wanted until install was complete. I also would have preferred more verbose text instructions, rather than the almost-entirely-pictorial instructions you get.Size/Fit: Completely installed, the card now occupies four motherboard expansion slots. Depending on your motherboard, you may have to use the lower PCI-e slot (manufacturer's page (http://www.arctic.ac/us_en/accelero-xtreme-iv-280-x.html) mentions this, so I knew this was a possibility before I ordered). I checked out the Height Restriction Drawing (found on manufacturer's page under Support tab, Downloads section), measured the distance between the top of my graphics card's PCB and the bottom of my massive  Zalman CPU cooler 's fins, and figured I would be fine using the top PCI-e slot on my  ASUS P8Z77-V Pro motherboard . It fits for me, with at least 5mm of clearance between the top of the backside cooler and the bottom of the CPU cooler, but this won't be the case on all motherboards. Make sure to do your research.My graphics card has some small welded-on heatsinks that are a tiny bit taller than the retention clips are intended for, so the PCB bows a bit with everything fully installed. I've had other graphics cards bow more under the weight of their stock coolers, so it should be a non-issue. I was forced to leave one of the interior-side clips off, however, as there was no place I could attach it where it would not interfere with either the PCI-e slot or my motherboard's southbridge heatsink. Everything seems firm enough with 5 out of 6 clips on.The completed card is also very long, about 12.5". It WILL not fit in smaller cases. I have an 8 year old Antec P180B mid-tower, and had to remove the upper hard drive cage (slides right out, was only used as a mounting point for the optional mid-case fan, which also had to come out for this graphics card). But it had to come out for this card with the stock cooler, too, so that's not an issue for me with regards to the Accelero Xtreme IV 280 (X).Other thoughts: when I ordered, it was $20 less on Amazon than anywhere else, plus Prime shipping. Yay! This is my 3rd Arctic Cooling after-market cooler (4th if you include the CPU cooler I installed on my sister's PC, which I built for her). Very pleased with all of them. It may prove awkward, if not impossible, to plug in SATA devices in future, since the ports are all under/behind this massive cooler. It remains to be seen if I can do it without removing the graphics card, though I doubt it will be possible. Fortunately, I don't swap SATA devices often, given that removing the card with this cooler on will involve undoing 7 screws (I used my case's expansion screws on the giant mounting bracket, since the two provided screws just didn't seem enough for its weight, and I don't want the other expansion slot's plates vibrating at all)CrossFireX or SLI would likely not be possible with the backside cooler and graphics card holder (mounting bracket) installed. The bracket goes directly over the CrossFireX plug, but there is a bit of clearance, and the CrossFireX bridge is quite thin/flat. I probably wouldn't CrossFireX anyway. I've thought about it a few times, but ended up buying a single newer generation card with more VRAM rather than a second compatible card each time.As much as I love Amazon, technical specs are frequently somewhat less detailed here than on the manufacturer's pages or certain other online tech retailers. Make sure to read compatibility info elsewhere (again, manufacturer's page for this product can be found at http://www.arctic.ac/us_en/accelero-xtreme-iv-280-x.html ) before purchase. If your graphics card is wider than 98mm or has a stacked power plug (one on top of the other, instead of side-by-side), this cooler will NOT fit.

*FIRST THING EVERYONE MUST REALIZE*:Amazon has conveniently combined the Arctic high-end graphics card coolers all into one page here. The only downside is that you are seeing reviews for all four of them that are available right now.*Overview*:This review is for the latest one, the Accelero Xtreme IV. This is the one that requires no gluing, and even advertises that you can return your card back to stock if you ever choose to do so (I'm not sure why you would ever do this. It's probably worth more on ebay with this on it, but that's your choice to make). When buying it, I took comfort in knowing that had I messed something up or lost courage during the installation, then I could still choose to revert back to stock if I chose to do so. The installation was rather easy though if you go slow and take your time to realize things. This is coming from someone who has never put on a custom cooler before too.I would like to mention that when installing this, the thermal pads go on the back of the card (which I found odd, but I followed along with the instructions despite that). They give you 40 of them each roughly .75cm I would say. You can stretch them if need be so there should be plenty of them. I have the R9 290 and found that 40 of them was the perfect amount. Since they had to make this compatible with multiple cards, I had to take special care in not clamping a capacitor or other major component. There was one modification I had to make where on one of the clamps I had to cut half of the rubber adhesive on it to confirm I would not be pinching a capacitor (go to Arctic's website and look at the parts list if you are interested in what these notorious clamps look like). After screwing everything tight- not too tight, just tight enough so nothing would fall apart, I threw it into my computer and to my excitement, it worked.*Temperatures*:This thing did more than just work. Before my GPU temperature was hitting 95 Celcius and would actually throttle down to avoid things blowing up. I did not, sadly, record what each of the VRM temperatures were on stock. However, with the arctic cooling while gaming, it sits around 62 Celcius for the GPU, and 40-65 Celcius for both of the VRMs. DO NOTE that I have set up a custom fan profile with Asus GPU Tweak which helps in keeping them this low. Those temperatures mentioned were from running Battlefield 4 on ultra settings.I also stress tested it in Furmark for 15 minutes to tweak the fan profile to my liking (I will share the fan profile in a bit as well). In Furmark, GPU stress that you will never actually experience while gaming, recorded about 63 Celcius for GPU peak, and 94 Celcius peak for VRM1, 64 peak for VRM2. I would consider all of these within perfectly acceptable parameters. Again, I never recorded the stock VRM temps but they were probably ready to spontaneously combust.Idle temps sit around 42 Celcius for GPU, 39 for VRM1, and 51 for VRM2.*Noise*:The stock cooler was incredibly loud. That was probably the main push toward getting this aftermarket cooler. That plus the extended life I've granted the card thanks to the improved cooling made it worth $90. Within the mixture of two chassis fans and the CPU fan, I can barely make out which fan tone belongs to the GPU fans. People complaining about the 'fan noise' from these fans are either related to superman, or should just be eliminated from the gene pool.*Size*:This thing is massive. You'd have to look at the website for the exact size to see if it'll fit your case. But I had to remove a hard drive cage in my case to allow space for it to fit. And yes, this will take up four PCI slots. If you happen to have a smaller device that does not extend downward, it is possible you could use the second slot above the GPU's slot. I would not rely on that being the case though. Just keep that in mind.*Fan speeds*:This part isn't particularly relevant to the review. I just wanted to provide this part to ease the installation. To get the decent temperatures recorded above, I used Asus GPU Tweak and created a custom fan profile. I'm sure you could use the software even if you do not have an Asus card, or you could use your own program that allows you to modify the fan speeds-doesn't matter. Anyway, I set the idle fan speed to be 20%. When it reaches 50 Celcius I have it jump up to 50%. At 53 it goes to 75% (53 and higher is intended for gaming and intensive tasks, thus the quick jump). And at 60 degrees C it goes up to 85% fan speed. On the off chance that the GPU reaches 100, I have the fan speed hit 100%. But since Furmark did not come close to hitting that, I do not think it ever will, even with some overclocking.So for more basic games, such as Minecraft, it should be sitting around 75%. And for intensive games/tasks it'll go up to 85% fan speed. This is working very well for me so far, and is a good starting location for both me and you if you choose to follow this instruction. I would imagine that a similar fan profile would benefit any card even if it is not the 290.*Conclusion*:Decent temps for such a hot card, quiet fans, gigantic fan/heatsink combo, and rather easy but time consuming installation. I cannot think of any other major points nor hints that one may find helpful. If anyone has any questions then please drop a question in a comment below and I will try to get back to you. In the meantime, I will be attempting to sell Boeing my stock fan, hoping that they mistake it for a jet turbine and accept a ridiculous offer for it.

Arctic Accelero Twin Turbo IITu tarjeta de video de calienta mucho? Los abanicos dejaron de funcionar? (Como en mi caso) Pues esta podría ser la opción definitiva para esos problemas. La verdad creo que son muy poco conocidos pero SÍ, existen disipadores dedicados para GPU's, eso si, no son para cualquiera, ya que su instalación es mas compleja que la de un CPU y puede espantar a cualquiera la idea de tener que quitarle el disipador de stock a tu tarjeta. Es algo para entusiastas si, pero tampoco al grado de usar un enfriador liquido.El detalle y reto mas importante es sin duda la compatibilidad y modelo de tu tarjeta, y aunque los Arctic Accelero ofrecen un amplio rango de compatibilidad, la tarjeta de vídeo para la que se instalo, una RX 480 de 4GB marca MSI no estaba en la lista de compatibilidad oficial sin embargo investigue que si podría ser compatible ya que AMD al parecer utiliza el mismo tipo de socket. Aun así cada fabricante de tarjeta de video suele tener sus modificaciones propias asi que deberás tener pleno conocimiento del modelo especifico de tu tarjeta y sí, deberás arreglártelas para desmontar completamente el disipador de fabrica, que podría variar en complejidad si tu tarjeta tiene por ejemplo, una placa trasera, 2 o 3 abanicos, muchos cables y tornillos. Afortunadamente en este modelo relativamente sencillo que se probo, quitar el disipador de fábrica solo tomo desatornillar los unicos 4 tornillos que sostenían el disipador original y quitar completamente la pasta térmica del chip con un poco de alcohol y algodón.Una vez removido el disipador original, la instalación del Twin Turbo II fue relativamente muy sencilla y aunque el manual no explica mucho sino usa mas imágenes no fue difícil interpretar que orificios y espaciadores utilizar. La pasta térmica ya venia aplicada en el disipador con un poco del genial MX-4, asi que por ese lado no se tuvo que hacer nada! Asentar y atornillar cuidadosamente como se recomienda en los gráficos y listo ya estaba instalado sin mas que hacer. Faltaba una cosa, conectar los abanicos a la tarjeta de vídeo, estos traían un conector PWM especial pequeño que era compatible con la tarjeta, sin embargo aquí hubo un problema que comentare después. El kit incluía también unos disipadores diminutos para los módulos de VRAM o VRM con un tubo de fijador especial, pero no se utilizaron en este caso, ya que como dichos módulos estaban posicionados muy cerca del socket creo que no habrían cabido y toparían con el disipador principal! Así que no se los puse, pero a esto me refería con que la compatibilidad por diferencias en la fabricación de cada marca de tarjeta podría ser un problema. Sin embargo los chips de VRAM tipo GDDR5 en esta tarjeta no sufren de sobrecalentamiento, de hecho algunos de los módulos ni siquiera hacían contacto con el disipador original y estaban sin enfriamiento. No hay necesidad entonces, y de paso les quite las cintas térmicas que traían. A las VRM no les hice nada, ya que su disipador separado de fabrica funcionaba bien y era mas que suficiente.El resultado:....INCREÍBLE. Bueno no al principio...que paso? Los abanicos no giraban al máximo de velocidad! Por mas que le moví en el software de AMD o MSI no podía hacer que giraran mas rápido, algún problema de compatibilidad? Conector muerto? Quien sabe... Ni hablar, desconecte los abanicos de la tarjeta y los conecte a la fuente de poder con un adaptador especial que venia incluido...Arctic piensa en todo! Y AHORA SÍ, funciona a la perfección. Los abanicos ni se oyen al máximo de velocidad así que ni una queja de eso. La diferencia, pues con el disipador original, con todo y los arreglos que le hice aun así me llegaba a mas de 80º grados y casi a los 90º que era el limite corriendo a full, con el Arctic Accelero Twin Turbo II ahora se queda en los 60ºs para siempre !!! incluso corriendo a tope CON algo de Overclock, o sea una diferencia de mas de 20º grados. Era justo lo que esperaba ya que el disipador si es enorme en comparación al original, pero no demasiado, ya que cupo sin problemas en un gabinete m-ATX. Despues de esto me queda claro que los disipadores de fabrica realmente pueden ser muy malos, incluso en tarjetas gráficas mas caras y grandes simplemente parecen ser insuficientes, creo que deberían haber mas fabricantes de disipadores de GPU de terceros como Arctic, y su instalación incluso debería ser mas sencilla y estandarizada para incentivar al usuario final a cambiarlo por uno mejor, como lo que sucede con los CPU. Realmente le da nueva vida a tu tarjeta grafica y una segunda oportunidad por si no querías deshacerte de ella. Pero si tu tarjeta de video no sufre de problemas de calor y aun tiene garantía, creo que lo mejor es que la dejes como está.

Je possède un R9 290X de Gigabyte qui faisait un bruit tout simplement monstrueux à plein régime, la faute aux ventilateurs sous-dimensionnés, et chauffait énormément par manque de dissipationJ'ai donc acheté ce produit pour remplacer le ventirad d'origine.L'installation ne pose pas de problème particulier, mais est à réserver aux connaisseurs.Deux petits points importants :- La taille ! Le ventirad est gigantesque et a nécessité chez moi un changement de boîtier. Si vous avez un boitier en configuration "mid" (c'est à dire avec rien au milieu) ça devrait rentrer- Les ventilateurs sont trop puissants pour être alimentés par la carte graphique, mais l'adaptateur fourni permet de les alimenter directement depuis l'alimentation du PC.Après installation, quel bonheur ! Fini le vacarme, à peine un léger souffle est audible alors que les ventilateurs tournent à fond. Les températures sont bien plus raisonnables, la solution fonctionne extrêmement bien.

Doesnt matter how it look its fantastic.my gtx 1060 6gb galax exoc fan was broken and i purchased this turbo twin accelero and yes results are really great it keeps the gpu at max 60C temps not all the time 55-60 all the time and yes my 1060 is overclocked,fans are turned to 100 percent in msi afterburner we cant hear any noise from the fan too.Edit bought it again for my rtx 2060 gigabyte dual fan rev 2.0. it was too hot under heavy load i was worried about the heating issues not only that core clock is decreased when temps are high.Then i swapped the cooler with artic accelero twin turbo although its not a perfect fit but i made it finally now temps underload are 65 with AC off in room with AC on 55-60 degrees.

TITAN BLACKに使用。オリジナルで負荷時で70度を大きく超えていたのが50度前後に大幅に低下。ファンは付属ケーブルで12V一定としているので、ある程度の音はあるが、オリジナルと比べればはるかに静か。カードの両面に計３スロット以上の厚みがあり、幅も長さもかなり大きく、大きなケースが必要なのは確か。取り付けはメーカーHPの説明のとおりで問題ない。数年前の高温のハイエンドGPUにちょうど良い感じ。

this is the best thing i have fitted in my pc .. i have zotac gtx660 but its factory fitted fan stopped working ..so temp of gfx shoots too hight to turn if displays... but after fitting this cooler with fan .. temps never exceed 56degree... and gfx performance boosts..its little bit tricky to install but.. technicle mind can find a way to aline whole with screws.. and just need two screws to hold whole set up