VGA Cooler for X1900XTX

[nataSofCols]

I'm trying to determine which cooler I want to get to replace the stock cooler on the ATI X1900XTX. The jet engine noises created by the card under load are starting to wear on me and I would like to get something that will run cooler, run quieter and possiby allow me to OC some without too much heat / noise increase.

The two coolers I have been looking at are the Arctic Cooling Accelero X2 and the Thermaltake TMG AT2. There are very limited reviews on the Thermaltake, but from what I have seen it seems to outperform the Accelero.

Any help on this would be great.

 

[tnaz71]

I was having a huge heat problem with this card using the stock cooler with no overclock. It would run at 80-85c playing crysis which would result in crashing. Idle temp was 50ish. Anyways I just got http://www.directron.com/hr03gt.html (Thermalright HR-03 GT eXtremely Silent VGA Cooler) and paired it with a 92mm fan. Needless to say It is overclocked now and idle is 32c, load is 43c. Only bad thing is, it is pretty big, it takes up 2 slots below my card.

 

[CasTell]

Ive been looking trough VGA coolers myself for my X1900XTX.

its between the Accelero S1 or Thermalright HR-03 GT.
accelero pretty much same cooling performance but is much cheaper.

heres a review
http://www.ocia.net/articles/acceleros1/

 

[CasTell]

does anyone know somewhere where there is a comparison of the hr-03 gt and accelero s1 rev ? Would love to see that.

- CasTell