News - Arctic Cooling launches XTREME coolers for Radeon HD 5970 and 5870 GPUs

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Accelero XTREME 5970 and Accelero XTREME 5870 arrive as the perfect companions for your high-end graphics cards.

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I had one of these for my old 8800GTX and it really was as good as they claim. Near silent and took ~30C off the load temps IIRC

How hard is it to install one of these bad boys?

The hard bit is always removing the stock hsf and cleaning the cr@p of the die, installing the new one is always simple as their instructions are well illustrated and explained, Ive used four of these on various cards over the years

But dumps the heat into the case ?
I have noticed a substantial reduction in temps with my reference cooler dumping the heat out the back.

Didn't the heat pipes on the old cooler they did for the 4800 series do across the card. This help push the air flow out the back of the case. This design shown means the air is blown from the sides of the card, keeping it in the case.

From what I can see they only contact the cards on the GPU's, this would worry me as on my old 4870 if the VRM's didnt have fat heatsinks on them they would hit 150 degrees, over heat and crash the card.
The 5xxx series from what I can gather use the same digital VRM's? so why no cooling for them?

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Originally Posted by Phage

But dumps the heat into the case ?
I have noticed a substantial reduction in temps with my reference cooler dumping the heat out the back.

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They do dump the heat into the case - so a well-ventilated case is probably required. Alternatively, I got an PCI exhaust fan as well to sit in the slot right above the GPU so it blew the hot air straight out.

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Originally Posted by Platinum

From what I can see they only contact the cards on the GPU's, this would worry me as on my old 4870 if the VRM's didnt have fat heatsinks on them they would hit 150 degrees, over heat and crash the card.
The 5xxx series from what I can gather use the same digital VRM's? so why no cooling for them?

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The model for the 8800GTX had small aluminium heatsinks to stick on the VRMs - with the airflow from the 3 fans right above them this was enough to cool them, don't know if they use the same system with these new models though.

I hope these coolers doesn't have those awful stick on ram heatsinks.