Featured

Arctic Accelero Twin Turbo 6990 VGA Cooler Review

The HD 6990 is the ultimate enthusiast card from the HD 6000 series. In fact, as this is written it is still AMD’s fastest video card because the HD 7990 is still awaiting an official release from AMD. What struck many people about the HD 6990 was that AMD did a marvellous job managing to get two fully-fledged HD 6970 GPUs onto a single PCB. Yet the reference HD 6990 is plagued by two major design issues, high noise and high heat.

If you’ve ever used a HD 6990, or own a HD 6990, then you’ll know I’m not telling any lies when I say these things are super loud. In fact until this product from Arctic Cooling arrived, I actually avoided using the HD 6990 altogether to protect my ears from a bashing.

Heat is the other major problem as already mentioned. Sitting in a room with a HD 6990 in a system is like sitting in a room with an electric heater on 24/7 and this is made worse by the fact the AMD reference design tends to blow all the heat in just 2 directions, left out the back of the case or right into the case.  Arctic’s Accelero Twin Turbo 6990 doesn’t promise to reduce the heat output of your HD 6990 – because it can’t – but what it does promise to do is spare your ears and keep the GPU running at much cooler temperatures.

The Accelero Twin Turbo 6990 is a mammoth cooler for a mammoth graphics card and just from looking at the box we know we are in for a treat with this VGA cooler. I’ve never been so excited about the prospect of being able to use a HD 6990  without the need for ear muffs, with a TDP of 375W I never thought I’d see anything other than water cooling tame this beast – but Arctic look set to prove me wrong.

Pushing the absolute limits of air cooling this Accelero Twin Turbo 6990 features dual 120mm fans and 86 aluminium heat fins plus 5 copper heat pipes per GPU. Yet the fans have a maximum RPM of 1500 so you know straight away the noise is going to be a vast improvement over the stock cooler.

As always, lets have a brief overview of the specifications before we proceed with the product review:

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Ryan Martin

Disqus Comments Loading...

Recent Posts

GTA 6 Already Winning Awards Before Its Launch

GTA 6 doesn’t have an official release date yet, but it has already earned a…

1 hour ago

DJI Osmo Mobile 6, 3-Axis Phone Gimbal

Stay on Point with ActiveTrack 6.0 - With upgraded tracking tech, OM 6 sticks to…

1 hour ago

Drayton Wiser Smart Radiator Thermostat TRV

Pack includes three Wiser Radiator Thermostats. These smart radiator thermostats are only designed to work…

1 hour ago

Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX Motherboard

AMD Socket AM5:Supports AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Processors Unparalleled Performance:12+2+2 Phases Digital VRM Solution Dual…

1 hour ago

Canon EOS 2000D Easy-to-use DSLR Camera Canon EOS 2000D

WHAT'S IN THE BOX - EOS 2000D body; EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II Lens; 2…

1 hour ago

MSI GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12G VENTUS 3X OC Gaming Graphics Card

Triple Fan: Three fans and a huge heatsink ensure a cool and quiet experience for…

1 hour ago