Just as it promised at the beginning of the month, Arctic has made official today the Accelero Xtreme 7970 VGA Cooler, designed to be used in conjunction with AMD’s recently released Radeon HD 7970 and 7950 graphics cards, but also with the upcoming HD 7800 series.
Despite its newly found compatibility with AMD’s GCN graphics cards, the Accelero Xtreme features pretty much the same design as the previous Arctic solutions launched in this range.
This means that
Arctic Cooling still relies on three 92mm fans for dissipating the heat produced by the GPU. These sit on top of a large aluminum heatsink covering most of the card underneath it.
All throughout this massive aluminum fin array run five 6mm thick heat pipes that are connected to an all-copper base.
The base is surrounded by a mounting plate and this has been specially redesigned in order to allow the
cooler to be installed on the HD 7900 and HD 7800-series graphics cards without requiring any additional hardware to be purchased.
In addition to the changes brought to the mounting plate, the Accelero Xtreme 7970 will also be shipped with the required VRM and memory heatsinks and features a pre-applied coat of Arctic’s MX-4 thermal compound, in order to ease the installation process.
As far as the fans used by Arctic Cooling for its latest creation are concerned, all three of them are PWM controlled and their rotation speed is set between 900 and 2000 RPM.
In addition to the
Radeon HD 7900 and HD 7800 series graphics cards, the Accelero Xtreme 7970 is also compatible with various other high-end and mid-range cards from AMD’s HD 6000 and HD 5000 series.
Accelero Xtreme 7970 comes with a six-year limited warranty with MSRP at 97.95 USD or 73.83
EUR, excluding VAT.
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