Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo II Cooler for GTX670 - Page 7

Interestingly, there's no ram chips on the other side of my gtx 670 reference palit. Gotta find a screwdriver that fits those screws holding on the plastic cover now..lol.

May i suggest something. I would like to install twin turbo on my gtx670 ftw aswell.
Because some memory/vrm heatsinks are falling off, what if the original metal plate (which is cooling vrm/memory) stays on? I mean, only gpu heatsink and fan are taken off, plate stays. If its lower than gpu, i think twin turbo would still fit, plus metal plate is cooling vrm more efficiently (and it wont fell off!). Can this work??

My Twin Turbo II came in today. When I get around to installing it on my reference 670, I'll let you guys know how that went. Only thing right now Im worrying about is PCB support as its going to bend the hell out of it.

The voltage regulator heatsink on my msi was too tall.
I did remove it and cut it down. It's still bigger than putting several of the heatsinks that came with the cooler and it has a mounting system with spring loaded posts that insure that it's not going anywhere.
I just glued the other heatsinks on this morning so I haven't been able to check to see how well attached they are yet. I definitely recommend the tape regardless though. I can see the paste being very messy for some people and putting heatsinks on both sides of the card is less than optimal with the paste.
I put four on one side and only two on the other because of the mounting bracket for the cooler. Be sure to attach the heatsinks with the bracket on so you know which heatsinks not to do.

I'll post back with a follow-up. I wonder if I'll miss my PC sounding like it has a turbocharger in it?

So its been a couple of days that I've had the cooler installed on the reference 670. Temps don't break 50c even in the most graphic intensive situations. The fan itself is silent as I can't even hear it. But there are a couple of things I want to note down:

1. The cooler itself was a ***** to get on. Adhesive for the spacers simply were a ***** to use and one of them ripped. So obviously with no adhesive, I left it there and after I put on the cooler, turns out that the spacer moved and fell out. So I just guesstimated how much to tighten the screw to match the others.
2. I used the 2.3mm spacers and position 4 on the cooler. There were already rubber washers on the back of the PCB, which led me to assume position 4 since there were multiple holes and only four of them in a square were covered, so I used those positions for the screws.
3. I don't know if its just me or maybe I'm over analyzing something but the heatsinks feel...cheap. That's the only word that I can describe it as.
4. I used thermal tape.
5. The pcb on the card is pretty bent right now. I hope it won't mess up the card. I can use something to support the pcb by leverging the cooler, but that looks horrible asthetically so I didn't do that.
6. I can no longer get the 6pins out from my video card. They're locked with the latching mechanism and I can't reach it due to the massive cooler sticking above the card. If I really wanted to I would have to take my sound card out (since it blocks the pcie lane lock) then proceed to take the entire card out, remove the screws on the back to remove the cooler, and THEN finally take the 2x6pins out.
7. I can't monitor VRM temps and such so I wouldn't know about those.
8. I also was not able to overclock any further than I could of before with said lower temps. No more thermal thorttling at 70c but still unable to push it more than I already could.

Got mine installed.

Heatsinks have all stayed on.

Temps are about 20 degrees lower.

Fans are pretty quiet. No audible difference between the lowest speed and the highest.

Only ***** point I have is that I wish the fans and their housing attached to the heat sink better. It's easy to knock off when you connect the power to the card. The connectors are a tight fit.

Installed mine today on my Zotac GTX 680 4GB, but sadly enough i'm unable to control the Fan Speed.

The percentage goes up and down i change it, but the RPM stays the same. Guess it has something to do with this new Fan Speed Controller on the 600 Series.

My previous Zotac GTX 580 with Arctic Accelero Xtreme Plus worked fine with Fan Control.

I have msi gtx670oc reference card. Do you guys recoomend twin turbo II or another one (like Xtreme III, Xtreme II etc.)?

And should I install myself or by someone else?

Also, what about vram cooling? Or another installation problems?
Edited by archimonde - 9/5/12 at 12:28am

Hi guys.

I am nearly to put the cooler on my GTX670 (Gainward, Small PCB).

I want to know one thing: did you observe a "bending" (PCB) after weeks of use due to the cooler weight ?

I've read things like that so I ask as (if necessary) I have planned to add a kind of bar to reinforce the structure (metallic + rubber for insulation).

Thanks for your observations.
Edited by Fb74 - 9/12/12 at 9:52am