Arctic Cooling Accelero S1: Can you say quiet and cool?

INTRODUCTION

Noise, that’s something that’s almost unavoidable in modern computer system.  Unless you are willing to spend a bundle and go through the trouble of installing watercooling setup, you are bound to have at least two fans inside the case (often more than two) keeping the components cool. 

Often a gaming system will have to sacrifice the noise for the performance as almost all mid-range and high-end components come with some sort of active cooling.  Having the option to turn alter any one f these components to something quieter and even passive cooling is always welcomed. 

Arctic Cooling is a company which specialized in cooling.  They have a wide range of products designed to keep the CPU and GPU running cool.  Here at Bjorn3D, we have previously looked at the Arctic Cooling’s Accelero S2 heatsink that is designed for midrange/budge graphic cards.  Today, we will take a look at the Accelero S1, which is the Accelero S2’s big brother that is designed for gamers out there who have got a mainstream graphic card.

COMPANY PROFILE

Arctic Cooling was founded in 2001 but they quickly has become a well-known manufacture within the industry because of their excellent products in graphic cards cooling that offers excellent performance yet keeping the overall system noise down.  According to their site:

ARCTIC COOLING is a private owned company founded in 2001 with headquarters in Switzerland, offices in Hong Kong and with production facilities in Asia. The team of ARCTIC COOLING insists on international young highly educated people with business, technical and communicational skills. The attitude to work is based o­n the Swiss innovative spirit and adheres to the high Swiss standard recognized internationally. This striving for excellence is integrated in all processes and is a matter of course. ARCTIC COOLING's core competencies are multifarious such as systematic noise reduction, copper and aluminum heatsinks, customizing of thermal solutions, "Just-in-time" fan manufacturing, Ceramic Bearing, Multiple Signal Output / BIOS interface and low noise fan blade design.