Arctic Outs Accelero Xtreme 7970 VGA Cooler for Radeon HD 7900, HD 7800 GPUs ~ The World is Mine

Jan 4, 2012

Arctic Outs Accelero Xtreme 7970 VGA Cooler for Radeon HD 7900, HD 7800 GPUs

1/04/2012 09:30:00 PM

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Now that AMD has finally released its Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, third-party cooling specialists can announce their solutions for AMD’s next-gen GPUs and one of the first companies to do so is Arctic which was just introed the Accelero Xtreme 7970 for HD 7900- and HD 7800-series video cards.

Despite its newly found compatibility with AMD’s high-end graphics core, the Accelero Xtreme features pretty much the same design as the previous Arctic solutions launched in this range.

This means that Arctic Cooling has employed the same overall design which relies on three 92mm fans for dissipating the heat draw from the GPU and into an aluminum heatsink that covers the card attached to it.

All throughout this massive heatsink run five 6mm thick heat pipes that are connected to an all-copper base.

The base is surrounded by a mounting plate and this has been specially redesigned in order to allow the cooler to be installed on the HD 7900 and HD 7800-series graphics cards without requiring any additional hardware to be purchased.

In addition to the changes brought to the mounting plate, the Accelero Xtreme 7970 will also be shipped with the required VRM and memory heatsinks and features a pre-applied coat of Arctic’s MX-4 thermal compound in order to ease the installation process.

Just as its predecessor, the new Accelero VGA cooler measures no less than 288mm in length, so users are advised to make sure they have enough room inside their systems before purchasing this cooler.

As far as the fans used by Arctic Cooling for its latest creation are concerned, all three of these are PWM controlled and their rotation speed is set between 900 and 2000 RPM.

In addition to the Radeon HD 7900 and HD 7800 series graphics cards, the Accelero Xtreme 7970 is also compatible with various other high-end and mid-range cards from AMD’s HD 6000 and HD 5000 series.

No information regarding the pricing of the Arctic’s new VGA cooler was provided, but the company did say that the Accelero Xtreme 7970 will become available on January 31.