7970/50 Arctic Accelero Users

LtMatt · 22 Apr 2013 at 21:39

Just a quick update...

I've been in touch with Jens at Arctic and he said

To which i said

Immediately after pressing send i regretted laying my cards so bluntly on the line to Jens. Thankfully he took it in good spirit and didn't get a restraining order placed on me.

A few more mails continued and he forwarded me on to some potentially strange man called Cedric from their American department and he is going to see if they can sell me one directly.

If i manage to get my hands on one of these, i will be pretty much the only man with one in the UK. That alone makes me want it even more than i did originally.

P.S Don't even attempt to talk me round from buying it, you'll just be wasting your time.

panyan · 22 Apr 2013 at 21:44

LtMatt said:
To which i said

that is simply.... brilliant!

wazza300 · 23 Apr 2013 at 00:25

LtMatt · 23 Apr 2013 at 07:40

Its looking good, Jens says they are checking the shipping costs and will come back to me soon. Cedric my main man delivering the goods, literally in this case.

Gelly54 · 23 Apr 2013 at 07:50

If you get one Matt would you be willing to sell it to the highest bidder?

LtMatt · 23 Apr 2013 at 07:52

Gelly54 said:
If you get one Matt would you be willing to sell it to the highest bidder?

Depends how much you bid. If its enough for me to buy a 7950, yes.

panyan · 23 Apr 2013 at 08:05

Matt, when you get your new cooler and your going to take off your accelero - can you make us that video about installing the accelero properly?

LtMatt · 23 Apr 2013 at 08:07

panyan said:
Matt, when you get your new cooler and your going to take off your accelero - can you make us that video about installing the accelero properly?

Yeah, either that or ill take loads of pics. I'm thinking about giving my pcb a bloody good clean as it has a fair bit of the adhesive on it and its a bit of a pain to get it off. You have to pour lighter fluid on the adhesive and the pcb to loosen it. Done it a few times though now and it works well, just takes some time. The good thing about lighter fluid is it evaporates quickly so within a couple of hours you can use the gpu again.

panyan · 23 Apr 2013 at 08:14

LtMatt said:
Yeah, either that or ill take loads of pics.

thanks - this would be very helpful

I'm thinking about giving my pcb a bloody good clean as it has a fair bit of the adhesive on it and its a bit of a pain to get it off. You have to pour lighter fluid on the adhesive and the pcb to loosen it. Done it a few times though now and it works well, just takes some time. The good thing about lighter fluid is it evaporates quickly so within a couple of hours you can use the gpu again.

which leads me back to using that thermal tape

~Mike~ · 23 Apr 2013 at 08:45

LtMatt said:
...snip...

P.S Don't even attempt to talk me round from buying it, you'll just be wasting your time.

no comment

<<<insert facepalm.gif>>>

th3illusiveman · 26 Apr 2013 at 04:33

My awesome luck never ends. Turns out my RMA replacement card was DOA. I took it out of the box and plugged it in and nada. Tried everything to get it working and nothing worked. Anyways i talked to them and they were supposed to pay for the shipping but for some reason the don't do it for Canadians for another $30 for that. Anyways to make up for this they said they would give me a brand new card that they were sending to the stores instead, an AX7970 3GBD5-2DHV3 and it comes with a completely different VRM configuration.

Wazza300 i think i may be getting a Powercolor card with the same VRM configuration as yours. How did you place your heatsinks? Also how do i order the conductive tape? I kinda threw mine out.

looks like the permanent adhesive will be permanent on these types of vrms...

wazza300 · 26 Apr 2013 at 11:06

conductive tape? non conductive adhesive you mean? either paste or tape you want,i used the g1

theres a pic a few pages back of how I applied the heatsinks,for the four vrm's on the right I used two of the large l shaped ones and cut one down to fit,then had them facing each other with the fins interlocked

^^ like that

vrm temps are usually 65c,only hit a max of 73c in the most few demanding games,core temps never go above 55c

EDIT: I found it easier to dip the heatsink in the paste,then stick it to the board

LtMatt · 26 Apr 2013 at 11:08

You know wazz i completely forgot your card had that vrm layout. You have more cooling surface with all those heatsinks than me, no wonder your temps were better.

wazza300 · 26 Apr 2013 at 11:10

its crazy the amount of vrm's they use,three rows I think,no idea why

LtMatt · 26 Apr 2013 at 11:15

wazza300 said:
its crazy the amount of vrm's they use,three rows I think,no idea why

I guess its a good thing really as the heat gets spread out more, plus it means you can use more heatsinks.

BS Dave · 26 Apr 2013 at 13:21

why don't you just go water cooled Matt? All this mucking about with different heatsinks - just go water and know there's nothing better out there...until the 8970

or just go crossfire in june when the fancy drivers come out. Either way you'll get more performance than the extra 30mhz you'll get out of your 7970.

Or maybe you could sell your 7970 to 8pack - it's a known awesome clocker - and he could win some records with it with some LN2...

LtMatt · 26 Apr 2013 at 13:43

BS Dave said:
why don't you just go water cooled Matt? All this mucking about with different heatsinks - just go water and know there's nothing better out there...until the 8970

or just go crossfire in june when the fancy drivers come out. Either way you'll get more performance than the extra 30mhz you'll get out of your 7970.

Or maybe you could sell your 7970 to 8pack - it's a known awesome clocker - and he could win some records with it with some LN2...

Next rig built from the ground up will be water cooling, not this one.

Haha i can't see him wanting to buy it.

~Mike~ · 26 Apr 2013 at 13:43

BS Dave said:
why don't you just go water cooled Matt? All this mucking about with different heatsinks - just go water and know there's nothing better out there...until the 8970

..snip...

It's what he should do but he won't.

wazza300 · 26 Apr 2013 at 13:44

water cooling needs a lot of maintainance though,with air you can fit it and forget it

LtMatt · 26 Apr 2013 at 13:46

I won't be doing things in half measures. If im going to the effort of it, it has to be done properly with proper colour co-ordination from the start and my parts will have to careful picking individually to match the colour scheme i plan. That's for my next rig not this one.

I don't want the hassle of it right now, i just want to game and clock my parts hard. (that's what she said)

wazza300 said:
water cooling needs a lot of maintainance though,with air you can fit it and forget it

That. ^^

I'm also fed up of fiddling, with what i have planned i shouldn't have to fiddle ever again once ive got things setup properly. Its slowly coming together, i hope to have all my relevant parts by the end of next week.