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Inno3D and Arctic Cooling team up for iChiLL GeForce GTX 260

by Parm Mann on 19 February 2009, 16:18

Tags: iChiLL GeForce GTX 260, Inno3D

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Inno3D and Arctic Cooling are at it again. This time, the seemingly-inseparable duo have cooked up an iChiLL-branded take on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 260.

The card, pictured below and dubbed the iChiLL GTX 260, makes use of Arctic Cooling's Accelero XXX cooler and promises to do it all. We've yet to see any real-world readings, but Inno3D claims the card will be some 35 per cent quieter than a reference-cooled alternative, thanks to Arctic Cooling's low-noise 90mm fans.

It'll be a whole lot cooler, too, with Inno3D claiming the Accelero XXX solution will drop temperatures by up to 20°C. Last but not least, the card comes pre-overclocked right out of the box - its GPU and 896MB of GDDR memory will be clocked at 620MHz and 2,100MHz, respectively. That's a tidy little bump from the stock speeds of 576MHz and 1,998MHz.

There's no mention of availability or pricing, but as a limited edition product, we'd expect to pay a little more than you would for your average GTX 260.



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30 x 90mm fans eh.. no wonder it runs cool :D
These coolers are so much better than the reference ones. Got me a Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo on a 4870. Temps are never a problem (i.e. 40's), even overclocked at full load in a Cosmos case which doesn't exactly have the best air flow.
The same problem remains. It takes 3 slots. I'm sure it's very good, but it's not for everyone when it's that deep. An Akasa Vortex is surely better. Yeah, the temps are a bit higher, but it's cheaper, and anyway if these chips are happily churning away at 70, 80 and 90c+, then temps aren't a problem, so I'm struggling to see the point in having something which takes away functionality in another area.

From my point of view these would only be worth the extra in a smaller form factor… but then the fact that they're huge defeats that purpose in itself.
I'll only use one installed card at a time, so size isn't really an issue. Not quite so good for dual cards.