ARCTIC Accelero L2 Plus VGA Cooler - nVidia & AMD, 92mm Efficient PWM Fan, SLI/CrossFire

Pros: - At least a 30° F improvement over passive cooling (OEM heat sink only) - 27 CFM (I did not measure, but this spec seems to hold true - air flow is outstanding) - Adaptive (multiple fastener options and both 3 and 4 pin fan connectors) - Quiet - Value (price) If your choice of GPU cooling is a heat sink and fan, then this should be your choice. It is notable that this cooler's success relies on a heat sink that is HUGE. It absolutely needs space and could block access to expansion slots. The cooler blocked my PCI-E x1 and a PCI slot on the micro-ATX board I was using at the time (I have since switched to full size ATX which eliminated that issue), While some may see the size as a problem, I don't since the design accomplishes effective GPU cooling. Please note that I own this product and the fan failed after about two years of service. That is the only reason for my rating loses an egg. I requested a replacement from ARCTIC and they replied and acted immediately (per their e-mail address at "Warranty and Return" tab). It is also notable that the fan clips to the heat sink so installation couldn't have been easier (no vibration btw). I have extensive experience building PCs had have many OEM graphic card fans fail over the years. I am not making excuses on behalf of ARCTIC, but it seems that the MTTF for these type of fans is short (if there even is a MTTF calculation). 2 -3 year seems to be typical. ARCTIC's 6 year warranty on this produce combined with their prompt RMA covers that risk quite well.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I love sensible engineering. I would recommend and use this product again and again.

Pros: Very quiet, highly efficient.

Cons: *Fan takes up two adjacent PCIe slots. *Glue that was supposed to be used to fix heat sinks to the memory and other components on the graphics card had solidified in the tube. This means that i) this had been sitting on the warehouse shelf for a long time or ii) the glue was not properly manufactured. *The fan is powered by a cable from the power supply instead of the power supplied for the fan on the video card.

Overall Review: Good fan but could be better designed.

Pros: lowered idle temps by 10 degrees and 30 degrees Celsius when playing Diablo 3...(CPUID HWMonitor running in the background)...able to overclock HD 6670 to maximum settings ...Fan is nearly silent when running at twelve volts...straight forward install.

Cons: had to scrape the pre-applied thermal paste off it was way too much for the tiny chip I needed to cover half a grain of rice of MX-4 was all I needed. takes an hour for the adhesive to cure...have to clean the VRMs with an eraser or the adhesive will not hold at all...

Overall Review: have Arctic Coolers on several CPU's so I knew this was going to be good but I didn't expect this... You can also download the instructions from the Arctic Cooler website before you buy... so you know what you're getting into... if You have a card this will fit on (there are many) don't even hesitate it's on sale at 5% off right now and I got $4.00 off on the MX-4....

Pros: QUIET. Also cooled down my MSI 7770 that was getting fairly hot under load. The thermal paste pre-applied on the heatsink seems to work fairly well.

Cons: As others have said, the instructions are difficult to follow. I even downloaded the "new" instructions from the AC website that include the 7770.

Overall Review: I didn't have to use spacers or glue on the memory/power heatsinks for my install.

Pros: - Virtually silent -

Cons: - Only came with a 3-prong and 4-prong fan speed power adapter, I need a 2-prong to be able to program fan speed as a "GPU" fan from the source on the card. I had to use just a PSU power connecter adapter to run it at one speed (still cools very well under load, and is very silent) - Adhesive is not very good, I bought some better stuff ahead of time - Directions are pretty unclear as others have said. It's still fairly obvious how it is all assembled as long as you read all of the instruction ahead of time and identify your card configuration ahead of time and make sure you have a game plan. Total installation time was about 2 hours including drying (1 hour with the Arctic Silver adhesive vs. 5 hours with what they give you).

Overall Review: Not sure what happened to my first review, but I had a few other things I wanted to point out anyways. I bought this after reading the reviews closely. I decided to go ahead and buy it ($23) with some Arctic Silver thermal adhesive to make sure the heatsinks would stick well. I also had some Arctic Silver thermal compound to use on the GPU face and heatsink mantle. Overall this product is very good cooling for a single fan cooler. The stock fan/heatsink on my XFX HD 6870 2GB were awful. This dramatically decreased idle and full load temperatures by at least 10°C while also being almost silent. The XFX stock fan was also extremely loud (sounded like a small vacuum cleaner...)

Pros: silent, whisper quiet and very good cooler.

Cons: takes three slots on my dell 8700

Overall Review: it was hell to get on. the heat sink has a bracket, the booklet shows you might need to flip it 180 degrees and i had to do this. also the bracket has holes you use to hold the heatsink on the video card. there is something wonky here because you have 4 holes that are a square and you think if two holes fit the other two will fit but no! you have to use two holes on the inside on one side of the bracket, and the other two holes on the far side not the inside. and the nvidia card has a bracket and it sits around the gpu chip, this thing falls off or blocks the heatsink so its hell to have this fit on the gpu chip when putting on the heatsink. and you need to use the white spacers and the whole process is very tiring, so i hope i helped you if your having trouble getting it on. if i had to cover the memry too i wouldnt have been able too this thing is so hard to get on right now its covers the gpu chip only. the label on the fan sits right side up not facing down when plugged into the slot. and i had to use the power supply dongle because my gpu only has a 2 pin fan power adapter so i dont see how many fan rpms there are either, but i see the fan spinning. before i had very bad coil whine, now nothing its awesome!

Pros: I ordered this to replace the dying stock fan on my XFX HD 6870. It fits perfectly and my card no longer overheats.

Cons: The packaged tube of thermal adhesive was already dried up when the cooler arrived, so I could not take advantage of the heatsinks for the RAM. It still works fine without them, but.

Overall Review: You'll need to connect the fan to the power supply with the 4 pin adapter since the on-board connector has only two pins. It's not complicated to install, though.

Pros: This fan and heat syncs replace the original fan and shroud. They graphics card runs cooler and the fan is quieter

Cons: It takes an hour for the thermal adhesive to set. It's a con only because I was impatient.