Got them last friday mate, i used the akasa thermal tape, it was ok, but felt flimsy and 1 sink fell off so i ripped them off, used the glue on all sinks, put the acceleros back on the next day after about 10 hours of drying time. There So so good, i was a tad skeptical about them, but alas, the temps are brilliant and noise is a none issue as my apaches in my caes are louder. Proper chuffed i went with them.
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my only complaint with 7970...noise!!!
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Got them last friday mate, i used the akasa thermal tape, it was ok, but felt flimsy and 1 sink fell off so i ripped them off, used the glue on all sinks, put the acceleros back on the next day after about 10 hours of drying time. There So so good, i was a tad skeptical about them, but alas, the temps are brilliant and noise is a none issue as my apaches in my caes are louder. Proper chuffed i went with them.
I did a sound test for my gtx 680 with stock cooler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jleq54LKyV8
For gaming on bf3 it was very quiet. Much quieter than my mates 7970 reference.
I'm comparing reference to reference here by the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jleq54LKyV8
For gaming on bf3 it was very quiet. Much quieter than my mates 7970 reference.
I'm comparing reference to reference here by the way.
Why overnight?
That's why the cooler sounds like a hoover, it's keeping your gpu very cool while Furmark tries to burn the gpu out!
Don't use Furmark, it's a torture test!
Bench your gpu with something like Heaven 3 or a game benchmark for stability.
Did you see this about the AC cooler?
'It is time to sum up a few things. Inside a closed system case Arctic Accelero Xtreme 7970 can cool a Radeon HD 7970 3 GB graphics card running at 1140/7128 MHz (1.175 V) with three fans rotating at 880 RPM and maintain its GPU temperature at 69°C, VRM temperature – at 84°C and video memory temperature – at 72°C. And most importantly, you won’t hear this cooler at all. Pretty impressive, isn’t it? This is what real extreme air-cooling for the fastest and most expensive graphics cards should look like! Arctic once again nailed it!'
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/arctic-accelero-xtreme-7970_6.html
Don't use Furmark, it's a torture test!
Bench your gpu with something like Heaven 3 or a game benchmark for stability.
Did you see this about the AC cooler?
'It is time to sum up a few things. Inside a closed system case Arctic Accelero Xtreme 7970 can cool a Radeon HD 7970 3 GB graphics card running at 1140/7128 MHz (1.175 V) with three fans rotating at 880 RPM and maintain its GPU temperature at 69°C, VRM temperature – at 84°C and video memory temperature – at 72°C. And most importantly, you won’t hear this cooler at all. Pretty impressive, isn’t it? This is what real extreme air-cooling for the fastest and most expensive graphics cards should look like! Arctic once again nailed it!'
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/arctic-accelero-xtreme-7970_6.html
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This cooler really interests me. Just need to get the courage up to rip my card apart. My stock one lets the side down compared to my Sapphire dual x.
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To be fair, apparently the GHz edition won't actually be available to buy with the stock cooler, it will be custom cooler only.
Any help here?
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Better than in the day when you're either using or at work, but if you're a night owl then the day is fine lol.
Either the Gigabyte 7970 Windforce or the Gigabyte 680 Windforce
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Anyway, I care less about football as do people coming to this thread, can we get back to the proper discussion pls 
Keeping it on topic, as the op lives in Greece, it will be slightly warmer than Italy, when I go on my summer hols to my family house, my laptop fan is on almost constant compared to sunny Scotland where it hardly spins.
THe 680 fan will also have to work harder than it would in the UK too, albeit it might spin a bit less than a 7970's it will still make a racket due to ambient temps.
The AC Extreme is the way to go imho.
THe 680 fan will also have to work harder than it would in the UK too, albeit it might spin a bit less than a 7970's it will still make a racket due to ambient temps.
The AC Extreme is the way to go imho.
indeed, also, as Tommy has proven, you may be able to re use the accelero in future with AMD cards as they tend to stick to a similar pcb most of the time.
People, these are my choices:
1) 60€ Accelero 7970 dont like the installation procedure (have bad experience from the past)
2) change to an Asus DCII 7970 for 70€
3) change to an Asus GTX 680 for 80€
My main target is to reduce the noise under load, since I am convinced that performance is equal.
1) 60€ Accelero 7970 dont like the installation procedure (have bad experience from the past)
2) change to an Asus DCII 7970 for 70€
3) change to an Asus GTX 680 for 80€
My main target is to reduce the noise under load, since I am convinced that performance is equal.