Arctic Accelero Twin Turbo II VGA Cooler Review

Installation

In order to run a performance test, we installed the Twin Turbo II on our Point of View GeForce GTX 460 video card. Figures 12 and 13 show the card with and without its stock cooler.

Figure 12: GeForce GTX 460

Figure 13: GeForce GTX 460 with the stock cooler removed

Thanks to the several threaded holes at the base of the cooler, the Twin Turbo II is compatible with most video cards. All you have to do is to glue (using two-sided glued washers) four small plastic spacers on the base of the cooler, put the cooler in place, and attach four screws.

There are two issues here. First, we really missed a backplate, which is used to distribute the force to the center of the video chip and prevent the board from bending. The second issue is about the plastic spacers. First, we installed the cooler with the spacers, according to the manual. When we tested the cooler this way, the results were horrible. After removing the cooler, we discovered that the spacers prevented the cooler from effectively touching the GPU heatspreader. Then, we reinstalled the cooler without the spacers, resulting in the cooler’s performance becoming much better.

Figure 14 reveals the Accelero Twin Turbo II installed on our GeForce GTX 460.

Figure 14: Cooler installed