ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme Plus II

The ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme Plus II is one hell of a graphics card cooling solution. The Accelero Xtreme Plus II is compatible with a wind range of AMD/NVIDIA graphics cards spanning many hardware generations, is very easy to setup, and does an incredible job at the cooling the GPU while remaining impeccably quiet. During all of the testing, the GeForce 9800GTX was always more than 20°C cooler than the stock EVGA heatsink fan.

If you are a user of an open-source Linux graphics driver where the temperatures are rising and graphics card is noisy due to lack of proper power/fan management support, this graphics card should suit you incredibly well.

The only forewarnings about this cooling product is that the heatsink area is quite large so you may have difficulty installing it in some cases. The cure time for the thermal glue on the RAM/VR heatsinks is also quite long, if you are impatient. Besides that, the current retail price on the ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme Plus II is quite expensive at about $85 USD, but you saw the mighty impressive results.