So, I bought an
Arctic Accelero Xtreme 7970 1 year ago, and finally decided to mount it on a 7970.
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| The reference design 7970 and the Accelero |
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| Removed the top part |
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| Removed the heat sink block | | | | | | | | | |
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| Quickly removed thermal paste stuff |
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| A little bit cleaner |
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| Done cleaning the gpu chip |
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| Now that is clean, it's like a mirror |
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| Trying methods to hold everything in place... |
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| Screwed the mounting plate with the backplate |
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| Mixing the G1 thermal glue |
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| Applied thermal glue and put heat sinks on the components |
And now we wait at least 5 hours...
Put the mounting plate back on the Accelero
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| Assemble everything |
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| Done ! |
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Let's see how it performs :
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| oclHashcat-lite |
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| MSI Afterburner |
Now the temperature stays under 60°C at full load (and under 50°c with the fans set to 100%)
It also appears that the rpm of the fans is wrongly reported/acquired.
It's
really quiet compared to the reference design.
The
installation guide used.
