Mounting

To mount the Accelero Hybrid properly you'll find only one mounting kit compatible with AMD's Radeon HD 79xx/78xx, 69xx/68xx and 58xx series. Installing the cooler will actually take you some time, took me almost one hour to do so. If you follow the manual then everything will go fine, it's not hard but it just take some time, especially if you put all the heatsinks on your graphics card. Tip: when you mount the backplate, be sure to aim the right holes otherwise it will be not possible to mount it right and fast/easy.
ARCTIC thought about everything, in the delivery you will find insulation tapes as well as a mounting mask. Why is this for? The insulation tapes are to apply on the circuit components around the VRM for exemple to be sure to not short anything using the heatsinks. The mounting mask is used to show you how many heatsinks you will actually be able to fit and how by covering the space taken by the cooler. Very useful, on picture two one can see that you can't put an heatsink on the memory chip close to the PCIe for exemple. They also provide an EVA foam that you put inbetween the backplate and the PCB to provide sufficient pressure on the GPU core. Nothing to complain about, pity! Ho and as always with ARCTIC they provide more heatsinks than needed, well at least you'll have spares.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 7 - Fan Speed / Noise Level
Page 2 - Preview	Page 8 - VRM Temps
Page 3 - Specifications / Delivery	Page 9 - Idle / FurMark
Page 4 - Construction and Design	Page 10 - Call of Duty MW3 / BattleField 3
Page 5 - Mounting	Page 11 - Conclusion
Page 6 - Testsystem and test-routine

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