ARCTIC Accelero TT II VGA Cooler - nVidia & AMD, Dual Quiet 92mm PWM Fans, SLI/CrossFire

Pros: Nice simple design and looks real good in my case. Install was fast and easy, or at least it felt that way to me. Came with a tube of adhesive that was in place of a two part kit, so far seems to hold the heatsinks up just fine. Dramatically reduced my temps like no ones business!

Cons: Bulking size, but only if you are using a small case with extra addon cards!

Other Thoughts: I knew it was coming before I installed it, so when I got it, I cut out a slot from the bottom of my stock Compaq Presario case to have clearance room for the fans. It works out because now it sucks up cool air from under the case. I wouldnt of needed to do this but I have a Sound Blaster Fatality add on card that wouldnt of fit below the GPU with the Arctic Cooler. Its my own fault for desiring to keep my ancient Compaq Case. New cases just cant beat it, its rock solid even with a hole in the bottom!

Pros: *Lowered my temps quite a bit (my fan had a bad bearing ) also the thermal paste was dried up. Used to get up to 100c+ at load and idle at 60-80c. When gaming will range from hang out around 45-40C, when idle it hangs out around 36C. Running furmark (using wine) it will not get above 70C
*The thermal paste on the cooler was not old and just the right amount.

Cons: *Heat sinks are a pain. I am using thermal tape as others have suggested here, but there was quite a bit of thermal grease I had to remove off the memory with an eraser before the thermal tape would hold the heat sinks are in place.
*Not a lot of support for the card, just four small screws. Not sure if the reference thermal plate can be used with this cooler (I already trashed mine)
*Gluing any thing to a pcb seems like a bad idea.

Pros: Versatility is amazing!!!! I have a GTX 660 TI SC and my idle temp went from 34C to 25C and my max temps went from 68-72C to 50C. The open design allows the rest of the PC air flow to help cool it. And the vents that come with it for rear heat dissipation. Overall great product I would give it "6" eggs if I could

Cons: Installation could be considered by some to be hard but if your mechanically minded you'll do fine.

Pros: A short and sweet review. It works very good. The adhesive is in one tube and drys in an hour and plentiful. I used an eraser plus rubbing alcohol @90% and a coffee filter, plus canned air and the heat sinks stuck with NP after an hour, just follow the directions. Over kill, maybe, but it was quick and easy so why not.

It has dropped my stock temps 25 - 30°C under extended 100% GPU load AFTER I OC. I have yet to hit 55°C. I had not OC before adding this cooler as 79-82°C was common on extended full load.

You can use an aggressive fan curve to keep ahead of temp increases, you won't hear the fans anyway.

Cons: The directions by themselves deserve 3-4 stars but the product is a full 5 stars The directions need studying and more studying but are accurate. Go to their web site and DL the latest version of directions, mine in the box were up to date. I advise doing a search for a vid installation on your card or similar card. I watched a how to install vid by a German gent, my German is very limited but the vid was enough to clarify some trouble spots for me. Once again the directions were accurate, just limited in explanations. Just preplan and take your time.
I needed a very small torx 4 point star to get one screw out on my EVGA GTX 560 TI 2MB. I pain in the you know what but a neighbor saved the day ;-)

Other Thoughts: I needed a very small torx 4 point star to remove one screw on my EVGA GTX 560 TI 2MB. A pain in the you know what, but a neighbor came through ;-) It is Large in height but the same length as my EVGA GTX 560 TI 2MB so no covering of any SATA etc. I still have room to add a second GPU for SLI but it will be tight.
DRY fit the heat sinks to get a feel for which ones you need to use and where plus any possible problems.
Case used is the Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower, a great solid case with 3 fans and I added a side fan which I have not had to turn up from its lowest setting now that I have this cooler. I have actually moved it from blowing on my GPU up to blow gently on my CPU.

After it's installed you will think, "that was easy" ;-)

Pros: Quiet and works really well, pretty easy to install

Cons: Larger then the video card

Other Thoughts: My load temps on my 5850 went from 77 to 51C. Its much quieter, the bearings were going bad in my original turbine fan and it sounded like a motor boat. It was a tough choice to replace the fan versus just buy a newer video card, but the xfx 5850 has lifetime warranty...and handles my simple games like World of Warcraft, starcraft, call of duty flawless.

Pros: Twin fans are SILENT, even at 100%! Included thermal glue only takes 60 minutes to set up and requires no mixing. My other case fans are louder. Twin fans are PWM and therefore, speed controlled just like the factory fans.

Cons: Bulky; occupies three slots. Instructions have you partially disassemble the cooler when mounting the extra (optional) aluminum heatsinks in order to ensure you have enough clearance. The TTII may interfere with SATA ports and the like depending on your particular mainboard. My Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 lost two SATA ports due to the size of the TTII.

Other Thoughts: I installed this cooler on a MSI 560Ti Twin Frozr II; since one of the two stock fans was intermittent and making annoying ticking sounds. The TTII only reduced my GPU folding temps by 2-3 degrees C compared to the stock Frozr at equivalent fan percentages (~61%). However, I can run the TTII fans at 100% with no noise! At 100%, the TTII runs about 5 degress C cooler than the Frozr at 61% fan speed. The Twin Frozr is a much higher quality heatsink/heatpipe cooler than the TTII; but the Frozr fans kill the overall design. Quietly folding at 100% GPU and 100% fan speed, room temp: 25.5C, GPU temp: 61C.

Pros: Cools 30%-40% 30% under load, 40%ish idle.
Decent for overclocking a little bit.
Looks ridiculously hot in my case.
Super quiet. I run the fans on the lowest settings and it still cools better than stock cooler!

Cons: not really a con but adds like an additional slot making it take up 3 slots of space so you cant fit addon cards under neath it.

Other Thoughts: I don't get what people are complaining about. The included instructions make it very clear that you have to mix the glue for quite some time before applying it, and to let it sit for a few hours. They include arctic silver thermal glue and you complain about the best stuff on the market? It hangs from 4 screws, but its copper pipes and aluminum, so its not that heavy. If you are worried about stressing your video card out, use some clear cellotape and affix the back end and you will be fine. The product isnt the issue, the person is... One person said to use 2 part epoxy? yeesh...

Pros: Its awesome. cooled down my evge 470 from 90c to 47c. Recommend for everyone who wants to cool down their gpu

Cons: none

Pros: Dropped my PNY GTX 670 temps by 30C. With stock cooler temps were around 85C with moderate OC and it sounded like a jet engine. With this cooler i was able OC much higher and never break 60C at full load. I get full Kepler boost now + OC. Currently running at 1280/7200 core/mem dead silent. Can't beat that for $40 aftermarket cooler.

Cons: instructions could have been better. make sure you dry fit everything especially memory heat-sinks. Some memory heat spreaders were fine with just GPU bracket installed but were getting in the way of heat pipes of GPU heat-sink. Would have been an issue had i glued them on first. Also i used Arctic Silver instead of per-applied thermal grease. Don't know if that made any difference though.

Other Thoughts: it still sells on Arctic website but newegg has it discontinued.

Pros: Sweet performance over stock fans from a XFX 6870. Works well with a fan controller with the included adapter. On average 10-20c lower temps than even with my XFX DD card. Maxed out fan is still quite silent compared to other fans in the case.

Idles around 41c
Gaming is low 60s and furmark <70c

Comes with enough ram and different mosfet heatsink shapes to work with most compatible cards out there. I usually clean out the preapplied paste and replace it with arctic silver 5 but i decided not to and its been good so far.

Cons: Large but does not extend more than half inch further than my card length wise. This design dumps hot air into your case but if you have good airflow this should be anything to worry about. The thermal mixture after applying, took more time to settle than expected. After about ~2 months use one of the fans died out completely.

Other Thoughts: I contacted ARCTIC cooling directly about the broken fan, they were quick to respond and sent out a replacement. It arrived this weekend and it is working as expected. Just hope this fan lasts longer than the previous one. Kudos to ARCTIC cooling's great customer service so overall is still 5 eggs.