News - ARCTIC launches 'back side cooling' VGA cooler range

[HEXUS]

The new easy-fit Accelero range includes both air and hybrid graphics card coolers.

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[lumireleon]

great product just in case you break any of the factory built fans.

[Corky34]

So essentially it's an after market VGA cooler with some heat sinks that you can glue on the back of the card ?

[Kanoe]

Hopefully they will be appearing in UK stores very soon. Had the Accelero Xtreme IV on pre-order for a good while now.

Quite pricy at £65 but as the fan is failing on my reference R9 290X and creating a terrible noise in the process it can't come soon enough!

[Noxvayl]

I'd like to be able to buy the backside cooler on its own. Seems perfect to add that to a water-cooled graphics card for maximum performance. I would imagine it would be popular for people unwilling to remove the stock cooler or those that have a custom cooled graphics card like the DirectCU II from Asus or the Windforce from Gigabyte. If it does make a difference then it should be worth selling by itself.

[djfluff]

I have an Arctic GPU cooler. Super happy with it.

[pastymuncher]

Looks like this would turn a 2 slot card into a 4-5 slot card. No good for SLI, crossfire or SFF builds.

[crossy]

I annoyed that these all seem to support a wide variety of AMD cards, apart from the 7970 that I've got. Blood pressure fell a bit when I spotted that "Accelero Xtreme IV 280(X)" - despite saying that it's a "Special Design for AMD R9 280(X) Graphics Card" claims support as:

AMD Radeon
R9 280(X) ,270(X), R7 265, HD 8970, 8950, 8870, 7970 (GHz),7950 (Boost), 7870(XT,GHz), 7850, 6970, 6950, 6870, 6850, 6790, 5870, 5850, 5830, 4890, 4870, 4850, 4830

only downside is that this thing apparently weighs nearly a kilo, so that's got to be a pretty substantial lump once you add the weight of the card itself.

Quite interested in this because the cooler on my "XFX Double D Black Edition Radeon HD 7970 OC" hasn't impressed me - sure it keeps the card below 70C, but it gets loud pretty quickly. Strangely enough it's louder on the pause/options screens for Sleeping Dogs, Bioshock Infinite, than it is in the game proper. Teach me to buy an XFX - next time I'll save a bit more money up and get an Asus.