Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME Plus VGA Cooler Review

Installation on a GeForce GTX 460

In order to test the Accelero XTREME Plus, we installed it on our Point of View GeForce GTX 460, which you check in Figures 13 and 14 with its stock cooler installed and removed.

Figure 13: GeForce GTX 460

Figure 14: GeForce GTX 460

Installing the XTREME Plus was easy. You just need to put it over your video card GPU and attach four screws coming from the solder side of the card, screwing them to the base of the cooler. In Figure 15, you can see the Accelero XTREME Plus installed on our GeForce GTX 460. As we always do in our reviews, we didn’t install the heatsinks on the memory chips.

Figure 15: Installed on our VGA

In Figure 16, you see the solder side of our VGA, with the screws that hold the cooler in place. Note that the cooler is longer than our video card.

Figure 16: Solder side

One problem we had when installing the XTREME Plus was that it simply didn’t fit inside our case: it needs at least 11.4" (290 mm) clearance, even if your VGA is shorter than that (see Figure 16). The only way to put our video card inside our case was by removing its hard drive cage.