Review: Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 on 8800GT (dialup beware!)

Originally Posted by DejaWiz

AC sells a longer, flexible bridge.

Thanks. Didn't know.

Originally Posted by Jimmy the Greek

What's the best way to attach a 120mm fan?

I have a ziptie on each corner, but worry that they're straining the S1. Are two enough for the entire fan?

A ziptie at each corner of the fan did the trick for me, but I eventually took the fan off to run passively.

Originally Posted by ScourggeFX

Thanks. Didn't know.

No problem at all.

Can you use the standard sli bridge on 8800GT's in SLI using the accelero s1? Or do you need the long flexible one?

Since this thread came back up..

Just 2 days ago i got rid of those twin turbo crappy fans and zip tied a 120mm slow fan. Temps didnt really change, so i suppose its ok. Maybe 1-2C hotter.

Originally Posted by zod96

Can you use the standard sli bridge on 8800GT's in SLI using the accelero s1? Or do you need the long flexible one?

You need a flexible bridge, Arctic Cooling sells one on their site but you can find them cheaper elsewhere.

Originally Posted by plac

Since this thread came back up..

Just 2 days ago i got rid of those twin turbo crappy fans and zip tied a 120mm slow fan. Temps didnt really change, so i suppose its ok. Maybe 1-2C hotter.

I ended up zip tieing 2 - 92mm fans to the Accelero S1 and they work perfect.

BTW, the Accelero S1 has since moved on to my new 9800GTX.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1298544

I found it on their website, but its a link for ebay. I don't have an ebay account of paypal nor do I want one. Is their any other place that sells them?

Originally Posted by zod96

I found it on their website, but its a link for ebay. I don't have an ebay account of paypal nor do I want one. Is their any other place that sells them?

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/flslicafornv.html

Originally Posted by Blue Falcon

You need a flexible bridge, Arctic Cooling sells one on their site but you can find them cheaper elsewhere.

I have the flexible sli bridge that came with my Asus M2N32 motherboard
would this be ok although it's just 8cm long instead of the 12cm long one advrtised by AC?

great review, and did you use the fan to push toward or away from the cooler?

Originally Posted by wanna_be

I have the flexible sli bridge that came with my Asus M2N32 motherboard
would this be ok although it's just 8cm long instead of the 12cm long one advrtised by AC?

Depends on how far apart the PCIE slots on your motherboard are...

Originally Posted by Enlightened Viet

great review, and did you use the fan to push toward or away from the cooler?

You always want the fan blowing toward (into) the cooler, that way the memory and mosfets have nice airflow.

Here is my experience with the Accerlero on my 8800gt. I was getting mad at it heating up and artifacting in TF2 after an hour or so. I volt modded my card and will use Rivatuner to push it further when I put an extra fan on it. (Redneck style) No problems yet. I have some pics but Im not sure how to post them here without hosting them somewhere...

Originally Posted by undercoverDrunk

Here is my experience with the Accerlero on my 8800gt. I was getting mad at it heating up and artifacting in TF2 after an hour or so. I volt modded my card and will use Rivatuner to push it further when I put an extra fan on it. (Redneck style) No problems yet. I have some pics but Im not sure how to post them here without hosting them somewhere...

You can use www.bbpix.com if you like

Thanks Im trying filedropper I guess thats another one on my list....
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Basically, my experience went very well. I cannot stress how great it is to not have to manually adjust rivatuner to play games. If I didn't then my card would crap out on me in about an hour, OR I could have lowered my overclock but that's just blasphemy!!

My temps are ridiculously low for using NO fan and that's just because I haven't had the time to get a fan on it.

I had a hard time installing this thing (Those plastic L + T addons are annoying as hell! Kudos to anyone who managed to install them), but the temperatures are quite pleasing.

Beforehand I had a Zalman VF-830 on my card (Factory installed):
Idle: 49-50C | Load: 65-67C
Switching to my old Zalman VF-900 didn't help so much:
Idle: 47-50C | Load: 67-72C
With the Accelero (And the turbo module):
Idle: 45-46C | Load: 55C

The load improvement is the most important to me, so I'm quite satisfied with it

Originally Posted by ErickS

I had a hard time installing this thing (Those plastic L + T addons are annoying as hell! Kudos to anyone who managed to install them), but the temperatures are quite pleasing.

Beforehand I had a Zalman VF-830 on my card (Factory installed):
Idle: 49-50C | Load: 65-67C
Switching to my old Zalman VF-900 didn't help so much:
Idle: 47-50C | Load: 67-72C
With the Accelero (And the turbo module):
Idle: 45-46C | Load: 55C

The load improvement is the most important to me, so I'm quite satisfied with it

Holy thread resurection batman!

But thanks for doing it, as I installed mine last night. Hadn't gotten around to chopping up my case, but I finally did it.

CoD4 loads (for the top card, which is generally 3-5C higher than the bottom) were around 83-85C, Idle in the 65 range. Now the Idle is at 40C, the highest load I've been able to achieve is 58C. Hovers around 55C most of the time.

That's 30C.

Oh, and they are a lot quiter than the stock HSF on my G92 GTSs.

The photos in the first post are down.
Could someone please reupload them.
Thanks

Originally Posted by DarK_HawK

The photos in the first post are down.
Could someone please reupload them.
Thanks

^^^

The thread is over a year old, wtf are you doing?