Arctic Cooling Turbo Module Review

[One4yu2c]

For retail companies, it's all about the add-on sales these days. But what if these seemingly useless add-ons finally offered something to get excited about? The Turbo Module is the latest add-on product from Arctic Cooling for your passive Accelero video card cooler. Is this another useless piece of plastic or do we finally have something actually worth spending a few bucks on?
Blake Terhune

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[Dread]

Interesting product review.

I can't help but wonder what the targert audience for this actually is?
I mean, if you bought the Accelero, you're looking for a passive cooling
solution. Then discover it is'nt performing as well as you'd like, so you
slap some fans on it?

I get that it improves cooling over the standard device, and it's
still quiet, but think the 3 slot is a bit much when you can easily get a 2 (or less) slot cooling solution for your GPU that performs as well
or better.

Maybe for a HTPC that is running a little bit warm?

[_WBaS_]

Actually it is a good target for somebody like me (I've had mine for a week now). I only use 1 PCIE slot and 1 PCI slot so the size doesn't matter. On the plus side, it cools very well (dropped my temps from 70C stock to 40C under load), it's cheap ($40 shipped), and quiet (I can hear my case fans over this). If you can get past the size then it is a great solution. I love mine, highly recommend it!

[gvblake22]

Arctic Cooling targets the Turbo Module to overclockers. I think the reasoning is that someone looking for the best possible cooling performance (without spending more than $35 or $40) for overclocking or for very warm running cards is willing to sacrifice that extra expansion slot.

The low noise cooling gurus who are usually willing to accept that they won't get absolute top of the line cooling performance because they have a completely passive heatsink. Likewise, overclocking enthusiasts are usually used to having obscenely oversized heatsinks on their components.

[Quakindude]

If Arctic Cooling hadn't of sold a significant amount of the S1/S2's, I doubt we would see this add-on module. There was probably a lot of requests for something like this from the customer base.

Great review Blake! I'm diggin it.

[Yellowhello]

Dugg it, and nice review! But not really worth the extra expansion slot in my mind...

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by yellowhello

not really worth the extra expansion slot in my mind...

The nice thing about is that you can remove the fan later if you really need to use that slot. But honestly, besides those few people actually running SLI or CrossFire, how many people really can't spare two expansion slots under their video card? Sounds cards are about the only other expansion card most people use (maybe a wireless card too), but 99% of those are PCI, which are located at the very bottom and leaves lots of room above i for a video card heatsink/fan.