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Review on ❄️ Ultimate Cooling Power for GeForce: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme by Ben Barrington

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Cools Great But Poor Aftermarket Installation Kit

J. Crenshaw's review below covered all things pretty well with this kit, my info below. The aftermarket kit is for the GTX 280 and is also listed on the box, Amazon lists it as "Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme GTX 280 VGA cooler for nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, GTX 280 and GTX 285". I have 2 GTX 285 INNO cards, this product does not fit directly. The voltage regulator heatsink doesn't fit the INNO GTX 285, I had to use some old heatsinks and cut them to fit. The included ram heatsinks fall off so I used a small amount of Araldite (5mins) on each end of the heatsinks (some heatsinks but to each other so extra dots need to be glued). It all takes a good 1+ hours to install. Also, the 2 brackets need to be flattened otherwise there might be a gap on the GPU that will fry it in seconds. Despite the enormous amount of work, the card is now running at 57° Celsius and an outside temperature of 30° Celsius. The card's temperature dropped by 21° under load when running Dragon Age Origins or Risen etc. All in all, there's nothing else that can give these cards a decent cooling drop, and I'm not in an air-conditioned environment ( if you don't need water cooling, it's going to hurt if you have to remove the GPU card. The water-cooled CPU is good. Amazon doesn't have anything decent in their Available Now list). And the card needed cooling, which is why I'm giving it a 4 out of 5 because it takes a lot of stuff to get up and running. Revain badly needs a description fix, the packaging lists them for the GTX 280. You can buy them new for $60 from Coolerguys here on Amazon, making them a bargain.

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