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Two New Coolers for Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX or Minus 20 Degrees for the Reference (page 6)

Category: Coolers

by Sergey Lepilov

[ 03/04/2008 | 04:44 PM ]

Installation Tips

Before installing the cooler onto a graphics card you should stick the adhesive thermal pads to memory chips and NVIO micro-chip:

Then you stick aluminum heatsinks on voltage regulator elements and install the cooler. it should be tightened with 6 screws at the bottom of the card:

The heatpipes leading from the smaller heatsink stand out by approximately 2mm past the PCB edge of the GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card that is why those of you who have this card installed right against the HDD chassis should keep it in mind:

After that all you need to do is to connect the four-pin power cable to the standard GeForce 8800 series power connector…

… and then install the complete system into the mainboard:

If you have enough room inside your system case for a GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card, then you should have no problems fitting the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 8800 solution there as well (just keep in mind those 2mm we pointed out above). You will have to give up two mainboard slots next to the graphics card. You may even have problems installing an expansion card into the third slot, because in this case you will block the airflow to the first two fans of the Accelero Xtreme cooler.

The new cooling solution is priced at about $48.