Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme GTX 280 graphics board cooler review

As the graphics board industry, headed by AMD and NVIDIA, have moved to create ever faster and bigger chips, so the reference cooling solutions that they often deploy for said chips have begun to struggle somewhat – While most of these designs are acceptable, they rarely excel in terms of either noise levels or GPU temperature reductions.

This state of affairs has opened up a window of opportunity for third parties to leap upon, giving them plenty of room to create their own superior cooling solutions which they can sell not only to end users but also to graphics board AIB partners looking to add something distinctive and/or innovative to their own solutions.

One of the companies at the forefront of this for some years now have been Arctic Cooling, who have been consistently churning out third-party graphics board coolers for pretty much every architecture and card design you can think of.  Today, we take a look at just one such cooler that has already curried favour with a few NVIDIA AIB partners, in the form of their huge Accelero Xtreme GTX 280 part.  Aimed at NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280 parts (as well as the newer GeForce GTX 275 and 285 boards), this solution is looking to improve cooling performance on a complex and large GPU design – Can it succeed in this endeavour?

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