Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Plus

Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Plus review

We got our thermal paste covered fingers on the latest passive GPU cooler from Arctic Cooling, snappily named the Accelero S1 Plus. Designed to plonk right on top of a Radeon HD 6870 (among many other cards), this chip chiller aims to keep your GPU cooler and quieter. But why would you want to upgrade your stock GPU cooler, we hear the uninitiated ask?Stock GPU coolers are generally just about good enough. If you're just using your graphics card in your normal desktop machine with no thought to overclocking, then you can pretty much just leave it well enough alone if you want. If, however, you really want to push your GPU to its limits, then replacing the standard cooler with something more heavy-duty is the best way to do it. There is another reason to change out your GPU cooler though and that's silence. If your whining graphics card is driving you to distraction then you may want to think about changing to a passive version such as the Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Plus.The top passive graphics card we've seen is the Asus EAH6770 DC; that's about as powerful a graphics card as you will want to try and cool without messing with spinning blades.