The last time I was able to look at aftermarket cooling solutions for video cards was a few years back. To be a little more specific it was after the launch of the GTX 4 series from NVidia, and I found myself with a massive heat problem I needed to curb. Now of course the extreme enthusiast would go straight for some nice water blocks from a company like Swiftech or EK. For the mainstream user we go with coolers from companies such as Arctic. As most of you know Arctic has been around for quite some time and despite the recent name change from Arctic Cooling to just ARCTIC they still design the highest quality aftermarket cooling solutions in a small country called Switzerland.

Arctic isn’t the type of company to take designs from others and rebadge them like we see so many companies do. While some of their cooling solutions do carrying on some aspects of previous generations; for instance the Accelero Xtreme line uses the same base with upgraded components and compatibility for modern graphics cards.

So in this article we will be tackling the Accelero Xtreme Plus II from ARCTIC, a cooler that advances modern compatibility with graphics cards up to the new Radeon 7870 and NVidia’s GTX580.