ARCTIC Accelero S1 Plus VGA Cooler - nVidia & AMD, Silent Passive Cooling, SLI/CrossFire

Pros: Excellent cooling even without the recommended fan add on. Dropped my GPU temp from 80 degrees to 64 degrees on my Unigine GPU Benchmark test. It did fit in my midtower HAF912 case, but just barely. Obviously, this is a very quiet card. Ha! Ha!

Cons: Adds about an inch to my HD6850 card height and about an inch to its length. Didn't ship with retension springs, so I used my old ones from the stock cooler. You need to mix resin used for memory chip coolers (I didn't use the mem chip coolers) I didn't see any instructions on installing cooler, but I had done it before. If you use the add on fan, it will require 3 slots for the space.

Other Thoughts: I had been running a Zalman VF770 on the card but that cooler was not rated for my HD6850 so I was running hot most of the time. The Artic cooler does a great job but Company recommends the add on fan for my video card. I don't have it but running at 64 degrees I shouldn't need it. I didn't have any shut downs running at 80 degrees!

Pros: I converted two MSI R7870 video cards with two Arctic Accelero S1 Plus coolers and two S1 Turbo Module 120mm 1000rpm fans. The result was rewarded with stunning success. It averaged 5C lower than the stock coolers (twin frozr VGA Coolers). Plus they CrossfireX cards are virtually silent, and you have to place your ear within an inch to hear any noise! Thumbs to Arctic Cooling! The fans are so silent,.....I just leave them on now (running full blast).

Cons: I wish you would sell the fan mount pins seperately from the kit, so I could try out other types of cooling fans?

Other Thoughts: I was very surprised how well the passive modes performed under BOINC folding stress. The temperature was steady (very little waver in the chart), and it never spiked at all during higher temperatures. The Accelero heatsink convects very well while exposed to lots of heat! Thumbs up to Arctic Cooling! The 1000rpm quiet fan is terrific and whisper quiet. I'm very pleased with the passive mod kit by Arctic Cooling.

Pros: NONE site lies

Cons: The Vga cooler said it fits the 7770 and when I tried to fit it to my card it wasn't fitting looked a little saw a little thing on my card was hitting it so I cut the card a little trying to make it fit like that it didn't work and now ima try and return it because I bought it for my card and now I cant even use it the site said 7770 so that why I got it and it don't even fit

Other Thoughts: don't ever get this not worth messing up ur card for a vga cooler should be no cuts just plug in and play

Pros: I attached this to an XFX 6870 that pushes alot of pixels (3x 1080p monitors). It is used as a workstation, so no gaming, but the VGA temps stay below 50C. This is a good product in my opinoin.

Cons: I had to remove the black plastic bezel in order to close the side door of the PC chassis. Easy to do, but the bezel seems a bit obtrusive unnecessary in this instance.

Other Thoughts: I will buy this again if I have another stock cooler failure.

Pros: All parts are there to fit to multiple different video cards.

Includes many ram heat sinks.

Instructions seem complete.

Able to passively cool my GTX 650 Ti running at full tilt.

Cons: It may be a bit difficult to figure out what way the mounting plate goes for your video card.

This heatsink doesn't fit every case. It's rather tall.

The glue used to attach the heat sinks to the ram chips takes 12 hours to set up. I would have preferred adhesive pads.

Other Thoughts: This is a must have for some video cards that you would like to make completely silent.

Also, if you would like to overclock, this heatsink can be used with a rather large fan.

Pros: - No noise!
- Fanless S1 keeps 5770 cooler than stock fan
- Relatively easy install, thermal paste already on heatsink
- Video's on Youtube helped for install instructions
- After installing I realized the previous card's fan accounted for about 95% of the rigs fan noise!

Cons: - It's BIG; had to remove plastic cover to fit in Antec 300 case (had already mounted card, used envelop opener to pop off mounting clips at bottom); after removing still almost flush with HDD mounts.
- Confusing instructions, separate instructions for those not planning to use RAM heat sinks would be useful as it would save time

Other Thoughts: Primarily rig as HTPC (light gaming), previous 5770 fan was starting to die. Without fan, able to do 1080p output to TV (HDMI), plus 1080p to monitor (DVI) simultaneously at lower heat levels than stock fan. Previously, my 5770 would run at 55C with two 1080p outputs, now runs at 44C (w.o any additional fans on S1)!

Performs well in game environments but haven't performed rigorous testing.

Pros: Quiet passive cooling.

Cons: - Had to cut off part of the plastic casing to get it to fit my sapphire Radeon 5770.
- The G-1 thermal glue is a real pain. Takes forever setup. Give it a whole 12+hrs, which is even more than the directions require. Even then be careful not to bump the heat sinks as they will just fall off. It's more of a sticky goo than a real glue solution. Upside is that you can take off the heat spreaders easily but I'd some other thermal adhesive.
-Directions showed two types of spacers, my set only had one. Be careful to make sure the spacers don't cause space between the gpu and the sink plate. Some have had issues with this.

Other Thoughts: My temps went up from the stock cooler but that is to be expected. Fan was going bad on my card so this seemed like a good replacement.
-Thing is big, so expect it to take up the whole next slot. Two cards with this probably couldn't be crossfired with standard crossfire cables, you'd have to get an extra long one (if they make them?).

Pros: XFX HD5770 idle temps are now 30 degrees c. Under load temps are 45 degrees c. Load temps are now what used to be idle temps. This cooler works very well. I like it.
Shipping was very fast.
Newegg is the best place to buy.

Cons: The brackets on the aluminum heatsink had to be turned around to fit my card. Not a problem however.....
1. When removing the screws the threads in the heat sink came out with them. I had to tap the holes to the next size larger and get new screws.
2. The plastic bezel around the cooler had to be trimmed to clear some components.
These are the reasons I took an egg off the rating. Other than that it's a great cooler.

Other Thoughts: I am using an Arctic Cooling F12 PWM fan on the cooler.
I have it wired to the stock fan controller in my Corsair 600T case. The fans (front, top, side panel and graphics card) are turned all the way down, the cooling is excellent and very quiet.
The thermal interface material should be supplied in a tube instead of being pre-applied because you will need to test fit this cooler to your card and possibly remove it several times like I did to improve the fit.
It's very big so make sure you have the room in your case.

Pros: Great heatsink, lots of compatible cards!. Got this with Arctic Silver 5. Dropped my HD 4850 well below 40c on idle and has not broke pass 55c on furmark and OCCP. I just stuck a 95m fan on the side to cool the card, can't hear a thing.

Cons: Arctic G1 is not worth it! It works but it makes me worry, after the 5 cure plus some the VRAM skins still move and it looks like the skins will just fall off! The volt regs tend to overheat, only because if you look at the board of a HD 4850 the regs are close together and the provided skins have to be modded to work right. Only downside other than the G1.

Other Thoughts: I was able to push the core 730Mhz and memory 1025Mhz.
Temps are:
Under Load
Core--53c
Mem--60c

Idle
Core--30c
Mem--40c

Pros: Probably would have worked okay; impossible to say.

Cons: I own an Asus 5770 card. The processor on that card is not exactly where the cooler expected it to be, so the cooler added a extra couple of inches to the length of my card. I did not have the space in my machine. Checked for help on the internet; nothing available from the mfg. Another web site had the same complaint from someone else with a different graphics board, and the advice to saw off the overhang.

Other Thoughts: Technically, it might be compatible with the 5770 as the mfg claims. Would have been nice if they provided a list of video cards they actually were compatible with, however. I will return this if possible