Arctic Cooling Aids GTX 200-Series Cards

Category: Video Cards, Cooling
Posted: January 16, 2009 08:52PM
Author: gebraset

While Arctic Cooling seems to provide quality products for CPUs with their Freezer 7 Pro and their MX-2 TIM, they also produce some graphics card coolers. The GeForce GTX 200-series are some of the hottest cards around, and can also be some of the noisiest with their stock fans and heatsinks. Arctic Cooling is now launching the new Accelero XTREME GTX 280 that will fit onto the GeForce GTX 260, 280, and 285 cards. The company supplies their MX-2 TIM product pre-applied and also will come with a total of three 92mm fans that are PWM-controlled. The fans are made with fluid dynamic bearings and can spin at speeds between 1,000 and 2,000 RPM. A grand total of five copper heat pipes will connect to the GPU, while the company plans to feature cooling for the VRMs and RAM chips as well. Overall, Arctic Cooling is saying that with their new cooler for the GTX 200-series, it can lower temps by a maximum of 31 degrees Celsius. While gaming or even doing any form of task that puts the graphics card into an intensive state, this temperature drop could provide that much more room for extra performance.