AC Accelero S2 [pics]

hp7909 · 17 Sep 2008 at 06:51

After 7v-ing stock case fans & a PWM HSF, remaining noisy item was GFX. Decided to try out the Accelero S2...

Candidate for the surgery is a factory OC'd Xpertvision 8500GT Sonic edition 256MB 128bit DDR3

Struggled (a-bit) with that latch mechanism. Note the 'are you sure you want to proceed' AKA warranty sticker

Quite dirty

Nice & clean. Cotton buds helped but left fibres :mad:

IPA & spectacles cloth cleaned thoroughly

DDR3

RAMsinks on. But came into a problem here. Notice the thermal compound is smudged...

...happened when aligning the card & cooler to see which holes it fits in since AC don't provide info for this card. BTW use hole 3, same as for 7600 & 6600.
But that's why I don't like pre-applied stuff

Fitted

Used the included plastic clips because cooler was seating on some tall capacitors. Also, length blocks 2 top SATA ports which has worried me. But that's down to mobo design not the Accelero. Think I can get away with some L-shape cables though

Idle temps are still around the same 46°C. Will test load later on.

Overall happy with result since hardly play games & THE SILENCE!! Stock fan ran at full speed because of the OC, gathering dust every 2-months making it nosier.

p4radox · 17 Sep 2008 at 07:38

That looks like too much thermal compound to me. You only need a very thin layer, the less the better.

hp7909 · 17 Sep 2008 at 10:33

p4radox said:
That look like too much thermal compound to me. You only need a very thin layer, the less the better.

Not my work/fault there m8, i.e. pre-applied stuff courtesy of Arctic Cooling

p4radox · 17 Sep 2008 at 18:13

Clean it off any apply your own then. Try a very thin layer of AS5 or similar.