Arctic Reveals the Accelero Xtreme III VGA Cooler

Cristian_25H · Mar 27, 2012, 09:54 AM

The Arctic team has now confirmed that a new Accelero Xtreme VGA cooler is in the works and will reach stores in late May. Known as Accelero Xtreme III, the incoming product has a cooling capacity up to 300 Watts, it measures 288 (L) x 103 (W) x 50 (H) mm, and has 84 aluminum fins, five 6 mm copper heatpipes, three 92 mm (Fluid Dynamic Bearing) fans working at 900 to 2000 RPM, and a copper base with pre-applied MX-4 thermal compound.

Arctic's cooler is backed by a six-year warranty and is compatible with the following cards:

- AMD Radeon HD 7870, 7850, 6970, 6950, 6870, 6850, 6790, 5870, 5850, 5830, 4890, 4870, 4850, 4830, 3870, 3850

- NVIDIA GeForce 580, 570, 560Ti, 560 SE, 560, 550Ti, 480, 460 SE, 460, 450, 250, 240 (OEM), 150 (OEM), 130 (OEM), 9800 GTX+, 9800 GTX, 9800 GT, 9600 GT, 9600 GSO 512, 9600 GSO, 9500 GT (not LP), 8800 Ultra (G80), 8800 GTX (G80), 8800 GTS 512 (G92), 8800 GTS (G92), 8800 GTS (G80), 8800 GT, 8800 GS (9600GSO), 7900 GTX, 7800 GTX 512, 7800 GTX, 7800 GT, AND custom GeForce GTX 680s that don't have a 'double deck power socket' (unfortunately the AX III is of no use on stock cards).

The Accelero Xtreme III is set to become available on May 21st, priced at $119.95 / €90.41.

Maban · Mar 27, 2012, 10:29 AM

Exact same as the Plus 2 with the addition of a couple extra accessories. Hardly enough to warrant a $20 price increase.

unholythree · Mar 27, 2012, 11:16 AM

I saw this press release and my first though was: Oh, I hope this means the Plus II's drop in price. I want to buy their products, but I just can't bring myself to spend a third of what I paid for my video card just to make it quiet.

jeffz6 · Mar 27, 2012, 11:17 AM

Evil, it destroyed my 5970

Prima.Vera · Mar 27, 2012, 11:32 AM

I hope is better than the versions that ruined a lot of 4870X2 or 5970 cards because of bad screws and stuff...

hhumas · Mar 27, 2012, 12:10 PM

i want one foe 580 .........

bmwmaster · Mar 27, 2012, 12:55 PM

This thing is only cooling the the GPU directly.
Rams and PWM stay "nacked" and are only cooled by the airflow ?

Is this enough, or will they "die" faster ?

NorthEndJon · Mar 27, 2012, 01:11 PM

They usually come with little heatsinks for the ram and power circuits.

specks · Mar 27, 2012, 01:38 PM

Yes they do come with ram and vrm heatsinks but No support for the new GTX 680...yet?

Maban · Mar 27, 2012, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by specks

Yes they do come with ram and vrm heatsinks but No support for the new GTX 680...yet?

It supports it as far as they have the same mounting hole placements as Fermi. It's just that this doesn't fit with the stupid double slot PCI-E power connectors. It will fit perfectly fine on a Kepler without that.

specks · Mar 27, 2012, 01:49 PM

Yeah that stacked power connector is awful. Are there custom designs that use the standard 6/8 pin layout?

Maban · Mar 27, 2012, 01:59 PM

Not yet as far as I know.

RejZoR · Mar 27, 2012, 03:19 PM

I wish someone would someday start bothering about VRM as well. These offer superb cooling for GPU but VRAM and VRM is very poorly cooled.

micropage7 · Mar 27, 2012, 03:33 PM

same design like their previous cooler, big cooler, heavy with big card and triple fans, i hope it aint gonna bend your card

Sp33d Junki3 · Mar 27, 2012, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeffz6

Evil, it destroyed my 5970

Then you did something wrong. I have one on mine for years, and it keeps mine always cool at load.

Red_or_Dead · Mar 27, 2012, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sp33d Junki3

Then you did something wrong. I have one on mine for years, and it keeps mine always cool at load.

Actually, he's correct. The AC 5970 cooler "on release" did in fact kill "some" cards out right, but mostly it killed a DVI port. They revised it, and to my recollection didn't even admit their liability.

yapchagi · Mar 27, 2012, 06:24 PM

at that price, I would rather buy a waterblock.

trt740 · Mar 27, 2012, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RejZoR

I wish someone would someday start bothering about VRM as well. These offer superb cooling for GPU but VRAM and VRM is very poorly cooled.

My Galaxy GTX 580 sporting this cooler comes with a massive VRM heatsink and stays ice cold. Runs at 950 core no problem and never breaks 60c. That was a problem on GTX 480s VRMS but has been fixed with newer heatsinks on the GTX 580 series. This cooler is flat out awesome. FYI it never had trouble with ram cooling and always came with great ram heatsinks. Not that it needs them with the giant amout of air flow the fans put out.

[H]@RD5TUFF · Mar 27, 2012, 11:44 PM

Wait so it fits nearly everything, but the GTX 470 . . .

erocker · Mar 28, 2012, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [H]@RD5TUFF

Wait so it fits nearly everything, but the GTX 470 . . .

If it fits a 480, it most definitely will fit a 470.. There's no doubt about that.

Maban · Mar 28, 2012, 02:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [H]@RD5TUFF

Wait so it fits nearly everything, but the GTX 470 . . .

The reason why the 470/465 is "unsupported" is because of the VRM sinks supplied. They sell a VR003 kit for the Accelero Xtreme Plus which has a special 470/465 VRM heatsink. You should be able to make due with the other sinks provided, but they are cheap little aluminum pieces and won't prevent the VRMs from overheating with a heavy load.

hv43082 · Mar 28, 2012, 04:01 AM

It looks exactly like version 1 and 2 with more mounting brackets. Hell I'm selling version 1 with 2 additional bracket for $50 shipped.

Noci · May 10, 2012, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bmwmaster

This thing is only cooling the the GPU directly.
Rams and PWM stay "nacked" and are only cooled by the airflow ?

Is this enough, or will they "die" faster ?

Hi bmwmaster,

some people make their own mod

check out this dude with his solution for VRM cooling combined with the Arctic Accelero Xtreme Plus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w_upK9Fsp4

Won't work in CF (too big) but it looks nice.

I'll be saving some penny's to go for 2 x Xtreme Plus II versions for my rig, because the temps rise very quickly @ my VTX3D HD6950 cards.

Mar 27, 2012, 09:54 AM	#1
Cristian_25H Staff Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Still on the East Side Posts: 41 (0.08/day) Thanks: 9 Thanked 962 Times in 486 Posts	Arctic Reveals the Accelero Xtreme III VGA Cooler The Arctic team has now confirmed that a new Accelero Xtreme VGA cooler is in the works and will reach stores in late May. Known as Accelero Xtreme III, the incoming product has a cooling capacity up to 300 Watts, it measures 288 (L) x 103 (W) x 50 (H) mm, and has 84 aluminum fins, five 6 mm copper heatpipes, three 92 mm (Fluid Dynamic Bearing) fans working at 900 to 2000 RPM, and a copper base with pre-applied MX-4 thermal compound. Arctic's cooler is backed by a six-year warranty and is compatible with the following cards: - AMD Radeon HD 7870, 7850, 6970, 6950, 6870, 6850, 6790, 5870, 5850, 5830, 4890, 4870, 4850, 4830, 3870, 3850 - NVIDIA GeForce 580, 570, 560Ti, 560 SE, 560, 550Ti, 480, 460 SE, 460, 450, 250, 240 (OEM), 150 (OEM), 130 (OEM), 9800 GTX+, 9800 GTX, 9800 GT, 9600 GT, 9600 GSO 512, 9600 GSO, 9500 GT (not LP), 8800 Ultra (G80), 8800 GTX (G80), 8800 GTS 512 (G92), 8800 GTS (G92), 8800 GTS (G80), 8800 GT, 8800 GS (9600GSO), 7900 GTX, 7800 GTX 512, 7800 GTX, 7800 GT, AND custom GeForce GTX 680s that don't have a 'double deck power socket' (unfortunately the AX III is of no use on stock cards). The Accelero Xtreme III is set to become available on May 21st, priced at $119.95 / €90.41.

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Maban Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,911 (1.01/day) Thanks: 797 Thanked 549 Times in 358 Posts System Specs	Exact same as the Plus 2 with the addition of a couple extra accessories. Hardly enough to warrant a $20 price increase.

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unholythree Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 22 (0.04/day) Thanks: 2 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts System Specs	I saw this press release and my first though was: Oh, I hope this means the Plus II's drop in price. I want to buy their products, but I just can't bring myself to spend a third of what I paid for my video card just to make it quiet.

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Mar 27, 2012, 12:55 PM	#7
bmwmaster Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 51 (0.05/day) Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	This thing is only cooling the the GPU directly. Rams and PWM stay "nacked" and are only cooled by the airflow ? Is this enough, or will they "die" faster ?

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NorthEndJon Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 27 (0.04/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	They usually come with little heatsinks for the ram and power circuits.

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