Hey guys, I preordered this bad boy, and got it early today. As far as I know, nobody has reviewed this cooler yet so I wanted to show you guys some results!
Notice the 8 heat pipes used to cool both gpu cores:
4870x2 with the stock cooler off.
Now the cooler is ready to go on, after the memory thermal pads and heatsinks for voltage regulators etc. are installed.
And it is mounted! Notice, this cooler is more than 2 slots thick, probably closer to 3, so alot of room is required. In fact, the bottom fans almost touch my 48701GB !
My rig is complete.
Now, Arctic Cooling claims a 50 celcius drop in temperature, this however (not surprisingly) is not the case. My initial results are still fabulous however.
My idle temps have dropped from 80+Celcius to low 60's *EDIT* {After reseating the heatsink and applying AS5 my idle temps are now a balmy 45C}, and full load temps have gone from high 90C and even 100C occasionally to about 75C maximum.
Not only are there significant temp drops, my whole rig is SO much quieter now, whisper quiet in fact, even when my gpu is at full load. All of this is attained by using 40% speed on the accellero fan which is whisper quiet, no doubt if I cranked the fans my temps would drop alot more, but there is no point to do that.
The installation of this cooler has been a nightmare however, I will not go into full detail, but be prepared to do alot of baby punching and cursing, also Arctic Cooling failed to send me a 8pin extender so I had to jam my original 8 pin into the card, which was difficult and frustrating.
Price: 85 USD
Installation: Time consuming, frustrating.
Materials: Everything was in good shape, but they didn't send an 8 pin extender
Performance: Phenomenal temp drops
Noise: There is none
Altogether I give this cooler an 8/10
I hope you have enjoyed this mini review, I will be in Iowa for the next 5 days so I can't answer any questions till I get back.
Notice the 8 heat pipes used to cool both gpu cores:
4870x2 with the stock cooler off.
Now the cooler is ready to go on, after the memory thermal pads and heatsinks for voltage regulators etc. are installed.
And it is mounted! Notice, this cooler is more than 2 slots thick, probably closer to 3, so alot of room is required. In fact, the bottom fans almost touch my 48701GB !
My rig is complete.
Now, Arctic Cooling claims a 50 celcius drop in temperature, this however (not surprisingly) is not the case. My initial results are still fabulous however.
My idle temps have dropped from 80+Celcius to low 60's *EDIT* {After reseating the heatsink and applying AS5 my idle temps are now a balmy 45C}, and full load temps have gone from high 90C and even 100C occasionally to about 75C maximum.
Not only are there significant temp drops, my whole rig is SO much quieter now, whisper quiet in fact, even when my gpu is at full load. All of this is attained by using 40% speed on the accellero fan which is whisper quiet, no doubt if I cranked the fans my temps would drop alot more, but there is no point to do that.
The installation of this cooler has been a nightmare however, I will not go into full detail, but be prepared to do alot of baby punching and cursing, also Arctic Cooling failed to send me a 8pin extender so I had to jam my original 8 pin into the card, which was difficult and frustrating.
Price: 85 USD
Installation: Time consuming, frustrating.
Materials: Everything was in good shape, but they didn't send an 8 pin extender
Performance: Phenomenal temp drops
Noise: There is none
Altogether I give this cooler an 8/10
I hope you have enjoyed this mini review, I will be in Iowa for the next 5 days so I can't answer any questions till I get back.