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7970/50 Arctic Accelero Users

VRAM temps.
I was reliably informed by your good self that this card allowed you to monitor them.

I don't know how much they'd mean since we don't have a stock reference to compare to though...
 
Okey dokes.
Expect a full on reference vs German beef comparison in the near future in addition to the long awaited Peter vs Accelero showdown.

Tickets are available via trust. Book early to avoid disappointment.
 
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Uncle Petey said:
Okey dokes.
Expect a full on reference vs German beef comparison in the near future in addition to the long awaited Peter vs Accelero showdown.

Tickets are available via trust. Book early to avoid disappointment.
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I want front row seats and tommy asked if we will be signing autographs at the end.

l33th3tr33 said:
Ok, well as soon as I get it and confirm it is actually g1 I'll trust you for your address.

Don't worry about covering costs either.
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Thanks
 
Well ive had chance to do some testing on farcry and temps are sadly worse. I decided to try again with the stock accelero heatsinks + akasa tape and temps were slightly worse than with the copper. Disappointing. The quest continues.
 
Matt, matt, matt.

Sip a Malibu and relax, learn to chill man and take it a bit easier.;)

Give the tape time to bed in matt, it sort of sucks the heatsink onto the heat source(that's what it looks like whenever I have taken heatsinks off after a while), I think temps will drop off a touch more.

You should download SD's again and give it the torture test.

**** the stage boys, you two can take it away, now where's the groupies at... :D
 
tommybhoy said:
Or hold off and see what petey's massive frankfurter can do?

His Peter's a beast.:D
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:D

Seriously though, the Accelero is easily a better out of the box solution.
I'd only recommend the Peter to someone who wants to get the max out of it by fiddling with fan configurations and is willing to sacrifice space in their rig.

Then again, I haven't tried it in stock config (bottom mounted fans) with Scythe GT1850's (or Akasa Piranhas maybe). They might do a grand job, but even then it would still offer roughly the same performance as an Accelero at a guess.

Maybe I'll have to buy some and find out... £15 a pop ain't cheap though.
 
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Right lads. Phew what a day yesterday. Disgruntled i trundled off to bed and watched a double bill of emmerdale and thought things through, like any man would. Dreamt all night about gpu coolers, paste, heatsinks and annoyingly that bloody arnie picture that pete posted a page back. Anyway i digress...

Woke up this morning after a nights kip and decided to go all john major and go 'back to basics'.

I took off all the tape, i took off all the sinks. (tape+sinsk on the vrms only) I then brought out the permanent adhesive that arctic sent me. It was the only thing left to try. The tape might be good but temps were clearly worse than g1. In the region of 5-10c.

I put a thin line of adhesive on each of the sinks and placed them on and held for 20 seconds. I used one L shaped sink on the left vrm. 3 L shaped sinks on the right vrm's + 1 long thin sink. All stock accelero sinks. I then bent some fins in order to basically make two big fins stretched out to improve airflow to the vrms.

Results - G1 + AC Sinks

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G1+Copper Sinks+AC Sinks

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Arctic Permanent Adhesive + AC Sinks

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Notice the wattage produced during that final run, higher than on my two previous attempts and still the temps were lower.

Farcry 3 GPU Overclocked 1172/1563 @1.138 voltage.

G1 + AC Sinks - 74-76c

G1+Copper Sinks+AC Sinks - 85+c

Arctic Adhesive + AC Sinks 67c


The tape and G1 are poor in comparison to the permanent adhesive. I think it will be possible to get it off, you'll just need a razor blade and a bit of patience. I would advise people to play it safe and avoid putting it on the VRAM chips, use tape or G1 for that. But use the permanent adhesive on the sinks to place firmly on the vrms. The difference blew me away this morning. I don't plan on fiddling any more now. At least until my card breaks and i need to try and RMA it. :D
 
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whyscotty said:
Matt,

You where born to fiddle, you enjoy fiddling - long may you to continue fiddling :D
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I've got the convictions to prove it as well. :p

Happy with those results scotty. Think ive taken her as far as she'll go now. That's me officially retired from fiddling until i need to RMA or the 8970 comes out.

Disclaimer
This may or may not be true but this is my current story and im sticking to it.
 
LtMatt said:
I've got the convictions to prove it as well. :p

Happy with those results scotty. Think ive taken her as far as she'll go now. That's me officially retired from fiddling until i need to RMA or the 8970 comes out.

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This may or may not be true but this is my current story and im sticking to it.
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I would have loved to see what your card would achieve underwater as that is one Golden card you have :)
 
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