ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme Plus II

For this review the cooler was tested on an EVGA GeForce 9800GTX 512MB graphics card. This graphics card was used since it is quite power-hungry and benchmarks across several generations of NVIDIA GPUs under Linux have indicated it to be one of the warmer GPUs compared to even the latest hardware. There's also overclocking support for the GeForce 9800GTX under Linux with the proprietary driver using CoolBits, unlike the latest-generation GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" series.

Setting up the ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme Plus II was very easy.

The NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX was tested on an open-air AMD FX-8150 setup running Ubuntu 11.10 with the proprietary NVIDIA 290.06 proprietary Linux driver. Using the Phoronix Test Suite OpenGL benchmarks were run while our open-source testing framework was also monitoring the GPU core temperature by tapping the NV_CONTROL extension. The EVGA cooler was compared to the ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme Plus II when running at the stock speeds of 675/1100MHz and when overclocking the 9800GTX to 720/1200MHz.