Can the accellero do what it says?

[Substance]

My 4870 is far too loud at the moment and I am looking at 3rd party coolers.

I am just looking at the accelero S1 rev 2 and it claims to be able to passively cool a 4870, Can it? That seems like a very bold statement.

There doesn't seem like anywhere to mount a fan either if I did need a bit of extra air flow.

Is it worth the purchase?

 

[Geckovich]

It possibly could in a very very very well ventilated case.

The arctic cooling accelero twin turbo is worth a look, it's basically the S1 but with dual fans included. I ran one on my 4870 with no hassle, great temps and much quieter than the stock job.

 

[liquidex]

I'm running one on my 4870 passive and max load temps in furmark are around 72C. However I do have a 120mm intake fan pretty close to it.

If you need the extra airflow a lot of people use zip ties to strap a 120mm fan directly to it. Still one of the best performing gpu coolers if you do this. Here is a link to a very old thread about it.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17904825&highlight=accelero+rev.2

If you don't want the hassle just buy the twin turbo. Like said above it is an S1 but slightly smaller.

 

[d_brennen]

Got my 4850 running passive with an Accelero Twin Turbo minus it's fans... 75c the highest Ive seen running Warhead for 2 hours. Not ideal but works.

 

[PwnDirect]

put the fans on 7v nice & quite then my 4850 is idealing at 38c right now