Arctic Accelero Hybrid 7970 VGA Cooler Review

The first main part of the Arctic Accelero Hybrid 7970 VGA cooler is the outer shroud. This is mainly for aesthetics but the 80mm cooling fan is designed to blow air directly over your VRM and VRAMs to provide them with active cooling in addition to the passive cooling of the provided heatsinks.

On the under-side you can see there is literally nothing but the 80mm fan.

The rest of the Arctic Accelero Hybrid 7970 unit is essentially what you and I would know as a Corsair H55. That is an Asetek AIO unit featuring a standard Asetek pump and 120mm single thickness aluminium radiator. Of course it has been adapted slightly to mount onto graphics cards and you can see the contact plate is slightly different too but other than that the design principle is the same.

Looking a bit closer at the radiator we can see it uses a very similar fin density to most Asetek AIOs.

From the top you can see the resemblance of the pump unit to an Asetek unit, it is branded with an Arctic logo.

Like we said the base is adapted for AMD GPUs and features a square to make direct contact with the AMD GPU die. If you’ve ever seen an AMD GPU you will know that they have a square part that is raised up hence why this block is designed like this.

The provided fan is the good old faithful Arctic F12 PWM 120mm fan. This is for the 120mm radiator.

The fan isn’t particularly attractive from the back due to the cables being left exposed and multi-coloured. Arctic only provide one fan as the assumption is you will already have a rear 120mm exhaust fan for push-pull.