Arctic Accelero S1 Plus Passive Cooler Review

Today we are testing the Arctic Accelero S1 Plus with the Sapphire 6670 in an AMD FX-5000 system, which is using the reference AMD heatpipe cooler. Room temperatures were maintained at 21c throughout.

Test System:

Processor: AMD Phenom X4 FX-5000
Cooler: AMD reference heatpipe cooler
Motherboard: Gigabyte AM2+
Memory: 4GB DDRII 533
Chassis: Thermaltake Overseer RX-1
Power Supply: SilverStone Strider Plus 850w
Hard Drives: 150GB Samsung SATA.
Graphics: Sapphire HD6670 low profile and ARCTIC Accelero S1 Plus Passive Cooler.

To test the Arctic Accelero we first establish idle temperatures by leaving the system idle for 15 minutes.  We are also going to record temperatures after a 20 minute gaming session and then run Furmark for 10 minutes to stress the card beyond any normal load.  Furmark pushes temperatures much higher, but is worthwhile to see a worst case, synthetic scenario.

With the fan that shipped with the 6670 running full speed temperatures were actually not too bad. The small factory cooler kept the 6670 below 70c during our Furmark testing.  After switching over to the massive Accelero S1 Plus the results were outstanding.

We were impressed with all 3 sets of results, especially Furmark. The Arctic Accelero S1 Plus managed to maintain the 6670 a full 10c cooler when idle, and even during game testing.  Things get better when we run Furmark; the Accelero S1 Plus takes a full 15c off the temperature produced using the reference cooler.  The S1 Plus drops the Furmark temperature from 68c all the way down to 53c, which is an outstanding achievement.