Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 8800 Video Card Cooler Review
Thursday, February 21, 2008
The processing power of the current graphic card generation is phenomenal, in fact some of the newer graphics chips can run distributed computing projects such as Folding at Home. This processing horsepower of course requires some pretty potent cooling. Most of these cards come with large GPU coolers attached and sometimes take up two PCI slots on the motherboard, however, some of these cards get pretty darn loud when the card is under load. I have had a few NVIDIA cards that sounded like small vacuums when playing F.E.A.R. or some other graphically intensive game. These stock coolers perform their job, but at the price of higher noise levels, if you want to overclock your card, then they will get even louder. Arctic Cooling makes some of the best GPU coolers on the market and they are about to unleash their newest model, fortunately, we were able to get our hands on the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 8800 Video Card Cooler. This cooler is designed to fit the nVIDIA 8800Ultra, GTX, GTS(G80) model graphic cards. Please note, this cooler is designed to fit the G80 GPU versions of these cards. Arctic Cooling has garnered a reputation for making excellent products that provide superb performance with whisper quiet operation. Let’s see if they can continue the trend with the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 8800 Video Card Cooler. Let’s get started….
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