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Arctic’s new Accelero Hybrid III-140 graphics card cooler packs some serious cooling

By Koh Wanzi - on 18 Aug 2015, 10:35am

Arctic’s new Accelero Hybrid III-140 graphics card cooler packs some serious cooling

Image Source: Arctic

Arctic has long had a reputation for providing great third-party air coolers for graphics. If you didn’t want a custom solution from the traditional add-in card manufacturers, you could just get a reference card and slap on an Arctic cooler. Arctic has now announced the Accelero Hybrid III-140, which sports several improvements for additional cooling capabilities over the older Hybrid II-120.

The Hybrid III-140 uses a larger 140mm radiator and offers different heatsinks – instead of a one-size-fits-all solution – to provide better cooling to the VRM components on individual graphics cards. It has even added a small 80mm fan to attach to the heatsink for active cooling for the VRM, something that was missing on the Hybrid II-120.

An 80mm PWM fan provides dedicated cooling to the VRM components. (Image Source: Arctic)

The water cooling loop itself is attached to a GPU block with a built-in pump that is intended to be mounted directly on the GPU die. It’s helped along by an additional heatsink on the other side of the PCB. This happens to be the area where the memory components are located as well, and Arctic says the heatsink also helps cool the graphics RAM.

You can see the heatsink on the opposite side of the GPU block, in addition to a second heatsink beside the block that works with the 80mm fan. (Image Source: Arctic)

The use of custom VRM heatsinks for different cards also means that owners of cards with reference PCBs need not use any thermal glue in the installation process. Should they need to return their card, they can do so in its original condition.

Arctic didn’t provide many details on the specifications for each fan, but it looks like they both might be PWM fans that can be customized with their own temperature-based fan speed profile.

The Accelero Hybrid III-140 retails at US$119.99, including the choice of one custom VRM heatsink. Supported cards include the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and GeForce GTX 980 and AMD’s Radeon R9 290X. You’ll also have the choice to select a generic heatsink at checkout, but Arctic is likely to make available more options in the future.

Source: Arctic

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