7970/50 Arctic Accelero Users

Uncle Petey · 8 Jan 2013 at 17:41

Matt, have you tried testing the adhesive on something else? Maybe stick a spare heatsink to an old tin or something and see what happens when you try to remove it.

I did that with the Alpenfohn glue as I had similar concerns about it being permanent.
Turned out it was fine.

TaKeN · 8 Jan 2013 at 18:01

Farcry 3. 1920x1200, Settings on ultra, but AA or AF turned down? Can't remember which one. Impossible to max out that game IMO.

1150 core @ 1174 vcore
1575 ram @ stock voltage.

Temps have risen by 4-5c just by upping the core voltage this afternoon!

LtMatt · 8 Jan 2013 at 18:11

Petey that is a really good idea, will try that!

Taken those temps look good, similar to mine.

LtMatt · 8 Jan 2013 at 19:27

TaKeN said:
Farcry 3. 1920x1200, Settings on ultra, but AA or AF turned down? Can't remember which one. Impossible to max out that game IMO.

1150 core @ 1174 vcore
1575 ram @ stock voltage.

Temps have risen by 4-5c just by upping the core voltage this afternoon!

We're looking pretty similar right now. Had to bump voltage from 1.112 to 1.125 to get 1150 core stable.

I notice that your gpu fan speed records correctly, mine always show 6000rpm for some reason. I use a custom curve in afterburner, maybe thats why.

TaKeN · 8 Jan 2013 at 20:30

I run mine at 100% constantly

LtMatt · 10 Jan 2013 at 08:24

According to that this new glue has worse W/mk than the Arctic G1 glue. :confused:

Mind you ive no idea what W/mk is but still thats lower than the G1 specs.

I was going to twist but maybe the smart money is now on sticking.

Confused Stu · 10 Jan 2013 at 08:42

LtMatt said:
I notice that your gpu fan speed records correctly, mine always show 6000rpm for some reason. I use a custom curve in afterburner, maybe thats why.

My GPU fan speed hasn't shown correctly/consistently since fitting the Accelero - I assumed it was just one of those things. Watching it in any monitoring software it just seems to pick random numbers and cycle through them. If you check my screenshot on the previous page out, you'll see the fans apparently run between 593RPM and 752,089RPM. It is the same with Afterburner controlling the fans and not. It is just another thing I've filed under "seems to work perfectly, don't worry about it".

LtMatt · 10 Jan 2013 at 08:45

Confused Stu said:
My GPU fan speed hasn't shown correctly/consistently since fitting the Accelero - I assumed it was just one of those things. Watching it in any monitoring software it just seems to pick random numbers and cycle through them. If you check my screenshot on the previous page out, you'll see the fans apparently run between 593RPM and 752,089RPM. It is the same with Afterburner controlling the fans and not. It is just another thing I've filed under "seems to work perfectly, don't worry about it".

Just imagine the cooling properties of that speed, it really would deserve the Arctic name. Actually its a shame the fans don't go a bit faster, would really help out the vrm cooling and i doubt it would be much louder if they went an extra 500rpm faster or so.

TaKeN · 10 Jan 2013 at 11:10

Hmm, I might remove my Arctic fans and strap two 120mm fans to the cooler.

Although all the weight on the card might be a bit much!

LtMatt · 10 Jan 2013 at 12:15

TaKeN said:
Hmm, I might remove my Arctic fans and strap two 120mm fans to the cooler.

Although all the weight on the card might be a bit much!

Try it, let me know how it goes. Any excuse to have a little fiddle taken should be accepted.

TaKeN · 10 Jan 2013 at 13:52

All the weight is yanking on that GPU though. It's not like the end (where the power connectors is) actually supports the pcb.

That's one of my annoyances with this cooler!

Confused Stu · 10 Jan 2013 at 14:35

TaKeN said:
All the weight is yanking on that GPU though. It's not like the end (where the power connectors is) actually supports the pcb.

That's one of my annoyances with this cooler!

Sounds like someone is looking for an excuse to buy a Silverstone case.

LtMatt · 10 Jan 2013 at 14:44

TaKeN said:
All the weight is yanking on that GPU though. It's not like the end (where the power connectors is) actually supports the pcb.

That's one of my annoyances with this cooler!

I hear you.

If you didn't do it already you can remove some of the sagging by unscrewing the screws that hold it in your case and pushing the fans/cooler towards the pcb, hold firmly now screw it back into the case. I appreciate you can still see the sag in the picture, but before i did this it was even worse!!

You can position your two psu power connects so they support the card as well, either put them in front or behind. I actually found putting them in front of the card allowed me a few c cooler temps.

Just played farcry for an hour at 1172 core 1563 mem @1.137 volts (stock 1.112) and temps have defintely come down a few c. Having lots of space around the accelero as well as moving a lot of air around it seems to help.

Ian Jones · 10 Jan 2013 at 15:00

does anyone know when this might be in stock please?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Arctic Accelero Xtreme 7970/7950 VGA Cooler £49.99
Total : £54.98 (includes shipping : £4.16).

LtMatt · 10 Jan 2013 at 15:02

Ian Jones said:
does anyone know when this might be in stock please?

YOUR BASKET
Total : (includes shipping : ).

Ask 5UB in the customer services section. They just recently went out of stock so you could be in for a long wait. If you can't wait you can probably order one direct from the Arctic Cooling website. However i believe they ship Accelero's with the permanent adhesive as standard now.

Ian Jones · 10 Jan 2013 at 15:08

my card is still standard clock, and when playing far cry 3, im getting max temps of around 72 c

is this ok? or what sort of temps i need to look for please (his hd 7950 iceq)

thanks
ian

MOOGLEYS · 10 Jan 2013 at 15:13

Ian Jones said:
my card is still standard clock, and when playing far cry 3, im getting max temps of around 72 c

is this ok? or what sort of temps i need to look for please (his hd 7950 iceq)

thanks
ian

Mine has never hit that temp even when clocked right up. Is the heatsink nice and tight ?

Ian Jones · 10 Jan 2013 at 15:32

MOOGLEYS said:
Mine has never hit that temp even when clocked right up. Is the heatsink nice and tight ?

its only 2 weeks old on saturday.

do you nean the hole fan unit thing on the card?

edited to say, at that temps, the fan speed is around 55-60%

LtMatt · 10 Jan 2013 at 18:57

I don't know how your temps compare to Moog's with the same card, but 72c is a perfectly acceptable temp for a 7950. As long as you keep it below 80c you're fine. Officially below 90c is fine as long as you're not overclocking.

TaKeN · 11 Jan 2013 at 09:10

Westie has his for sale in the MM right now!

£38 delivered :eek:

BARGAIN!