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Accelero Hybrid Cooler

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At the moment, When gaming, my 7970 drives my girlfriend mad when she is trying to watch TV. PLus, when gaming, my 7970 sits around 78-80c, which, if im honest I would like it abit cooler.

Im a fan of the Corsair H100, I dont really have to worry about my CPU temps, they are always nice and cool. So i was thinking of the same idea on my 7970, a sealed basic water cooled system.

So im thinking about getting this
http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/cooling/vga/589/accelero-hybrid-7970.html?c=2182

Has anyone had any experience with this unit? If so whats your experience??
 
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I'm interested in this also as it looks amazing.
I put in a product request in the suggestions forum yesterday to ask if OcUK are going to stock it.
 
Wah stat wise it looks impressive, price wise no thanks lol.
The only thing i would be worried about is the pressure pushing against the card from the pipes as they don't sit flat like a CPU does.
Not saying it will do that, but i would be a bit worried about it.
 
I cannot comment on the Hybrid, but I do have the Accelero Xtreme 7970 and it looks to perform similarly both thermally and acoustically looking at their website...

What I can say about the Accelero - it is virtually silent. If you leave it on the stock fan profile, it will run at perhaps up to 40% during gaming, whilst keeping the 7970 ~60 degrees. Even at 100% (I set it to this manually as I generally game with headphones and have a fairly high overclock) it is still very quiet. Could probably compare it to the noise of a games console. Or maybe the stock fan running at 30-40% if memory serves me correct.

If you like I could try record a couple videos to illustrate the noise levels.
 
I'm interested in this as well, my 7950 gets hot due to poor airflow caused by having a compact case...

I want one, but it's damn expensive.
 
I suppose if you do it like Varkanoid did then you have the stock cooler shroud and fan to keep those pesky VRM cool but in the case of that origin page linked it looks like the card came with a bolt on VRM cooler and the RAM are just left bare, which in the case of the RAM is probably fine these days. The VRM I believe on the 7970 are not separately heatsunk like the GTX cards so would require some additional heatsinking.

I would be tempted by the triple fan Arctic though, although having the heat from the GPU expelled right out with these sealed water coolers is a good idea.
 
I'll probably wait then and hope it'll drop to around ~£80-90. In my case I have an mATX build with a compact Lian Li V354B, so the PSU fan is pretty much next to the GPU. Also have a sound card right underneath so I can't have a triple slot cooler... plus due to the airflow it might be starved of air anyway, hence why the Hybrid is so damn tempting for me.

Would do the CPU cooler trick but I can't reuse my stock cooler to cool the other components, the fan is in the middle of the card... and looking at that link, everyone with a 7950/70 seems to have bare memory/VRAM cooling.
 
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Orcvader said:
Noticed that as well, but I'm slightly worried about memory/VRM cooling, how hot does yours get?
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Just finished 20 mins on World of Tanks and it was 56c (mine is overclocked too)

As I used the reference cooler fan/memory/vrm heatsink I don't have a problem. It still expels hot air through the back.
 
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Tealc said:
I suppose if you do it like Varkanoid did then you have the stock cooler shroud and fan to keep those pesky VRM cool but in the case of that origin page linked it looks like the card came with a bolt on VRM cooler and the RAM are just left bare, which in the case of the RAM is probably fine these days. The VRM I believe on the 7970 are not separately heatsunk like the GTX cards so would require some additional heatsinking.

I would be tempted by the triple fan Arctic though, although having the heat from the GPU expelled right out with these sealed water coolers is a good idea.
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I always liked the tripple fan/double fan Arctic's cooled my 280 no probs.
 
Looks good, I think a big advantage to that would be the ability to shove most of the GPU heat straight out the case opposed to dumping it in the case, reducing all temps :)
 
Just get an Arctic cooler, double or triple fan which come with VRM/Memory heatsinks.

They do a stupidly good job of cooling and are as good as silent. Mine never goes higher than 35-40% fan speed (PWN controlled directly from card as stock cooler is) and temps are always sub 60 Deg C.

Significantly cheaper than the hybrid coolers which are a bit of a gimmick IMO, especially considering they won't do much if any better than a decent air cooler.
 
The price is the point which is making me think twice, but also not having a seller to which I trust (hurry up OC~UK, get it stocked ;) ).

andy_mk3 said:
Looks good, I think a big advantage to that would be the ability to shove most of the GPU heat straight out the case opposed to dumping it in the case, reducing all temps :)
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I have the H100 with some xigmatec fans replacing the default corsair fans, all heat straight out of the case. I wouldnt be without it, great bit of kit, this pushes me towards this.

Its my birthday in a couple of weeks so i want to point the misses in the right direction. There is nothing like sending the misses a facebook msg while she is at work with nothing but a link to the title "Hint Hint" Works everytime.
 
dave_beast said:
I have thought about that, but with a smallish case the hot air being dumped into it would be a problem. This hybrid transfers heat out of the case.
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If you have an exhaust fan then it more or less does the same job:

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Fantastic!

Loads of info in here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=19041495&posted=1#post19041495

If anything as the 79's run much cooler than the 69's, temps will be even lower than what I got with two in CrossFire.
 
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