Arctic Accelero Hybrid III-140: GPU water cooling in test

Arctic Cooling is specialized in cooling solutions for processors and graphics cards. After a look at the volume characteristics of popular GPU air coolers such as the Twin Turbo 2 and the MonoPlus, we will be looking into the flagship in a practice test: the Arctic Accelero Hybrid III- 140 – a hybrid water cooling system. We look at the installation and / or the conversion – and test the cooling performance compared to the original solution with a Geforce GTX 1070 Founders Edition


As with the CPU cooler Corsair H115i, the Arctic Accelero Hybrid III-140 is an all-in-one or compact water cooling system. A cooling element with a pump is located on the graphics processor. This pumps a liquid through a hose to the radiator. Its cooling fins and fans reduce the temperature of the liquid that flows through another tube back to the graphics processor to recover and dissipate heat.


The pump is already assembled with the hoses and radiator. As with Corsair, there is no need for maintenance. In addition, a backplate is used to remove additional heat from the graphic memory chip from the lower side of the graphics card and a separate cooler for the voltage transformers. This cooler consists of a cooling block, which is different depending on the graphics card type and a small fan. We got from Arctic the variant for a Geforce GTX 980 Ti. This is compatible with the new Pascal generation with GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 (each in the reference board). There are also frames for various other graphics cards, such as AMD.