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Here is an update....
After installing the Accelero I was seeing temperatures loading upwards of 85 - 90 deg c. Last evening I got the email from Arctic Cooling to remove the washers so I installed the Accelero last night for the second time. Load temps again crept upwards of 80 deg c. The zalman never broke 70 c, 68 has been the highest I ever saw using it. My chipset on the DFI Ultra-D usually idled at 32, loaded 39 maybe 40. With the Accelero running idle was 40 and load was 50+ as it dumped hot air on the motherboard and chipset area. I also found that once the Accelero got hot after loading for awhile, idle was always in the mid to high 50's. Basically the Accelero couldn't get out of it's own way - I feel that as the hot air was dumped onto the motherboard is was then re-circulated by the DFI chipset fan and sucked back in as intake. Moving hotter air through the cooler constantly. The design is poor, one of the plastic clips broke as I tried to open it for the review. Why wouldn't they use their traditional layout with hot air being exhausted out the rear of the Case. I checked contact multiple times and it was perfect everytime. You could even see the information on the core of the GPU mirrored in the TIM when I pulled it apart. Oh yea and since the fan was also silent at 100% - why not let the user connect to a 3 pin or 4 pin molex? Why go through the bother of powering from the onboard header and have to use a software app to override the speed??? Argh!
At the end of the night last night (about 4:15am) I removed the unit only to have the thermal pads stick and tear. So now the Accelero is a useless pile on my desk and in the process it ruined the X1800XT I had. Installation was a breeze, the Cooler was dead silent - however the performance was lousy to say the least. Not only that it killed an X1800XT in the process and drove chipset temps on a DFI Ultra-D way up.
Do you really want to try an Accelero?
I have voiced my complaints to Arctic Cooling already. I'm frustrated and now a bit pissed. I was the person that pointed out the wiring harness error on the NV5 Silencer Rev. 3 and saved them having to recall millions of units - instead only a few thousand were affected. How can the wiring harness be incorrect if the unit was installed on a card and tested? Ya really got me and when I phoned them and asked they sidestepped the question completely! The Accelero seems to be another step into the "what the hell were we thinking" area for Arctic Cooling. Arctic Cooling has never let me down, the last 2 out of three products have been less than well thought our products imo *NV5 rev 3 (how do you screw up the wiring harness, then include thermal tape that is dried up and not sticky?), Accelero (= dead X1800XT, soaring temps and hot chipset), the Freezer 64 Pro was great*
I dont forsee the review being completed after this mess I could care less to post any findings on the product at this point. Figured I'd deliver the news here - buyer beware with this one folks!