Arctic Accelero Hybrid Review

Arctic Accelero Hybrid is a closed loop water cooling solution for most newer GPU cards. First, lets start with the installation.

Installation:
Right when you open the box, you see a shroud with a fan, your pump + tubing, and a bunch of VRAM heatsinks. You have to mount the pump on the shroud and then paste the heatsinks on your GPU. But right when you are about to paste the heatsinks on it's likely you'll notice the included paste won't work... a lot of people who bought this (including myself) have the problem of receiving dried up thermal paste so I suggest buying Thermal TAPE along with buying this product, which is easier to take off when the time comes. Installation time will range from 1-2 hours, it can be a bit of a pain but not that hard and on a lot of cards the shroud won't even fit! But, it's not that necessary to be honest, decent case airflow + VRAM heatsinks are enough.

Performance:
Room temperature was constant in both trials

Stock Arctic Fan FULL RPM
EVGA 670 Ftw 4GB Nvidia GPU (Not overclocked, stock settings)
*Idle: 30C
*Load: 58C
*Max Load 4 hours: 62C

Aerocool Shark Fan FULL RPM
EVGA 670 Ftw 4GB Nvidia GPU (Not overclocked, stock settings)
*Idle: 28C
*Load: 48C
*Max Load 4 hours: 52C

The Accelero Hybrid is obviously very effective at cooling your GPU while doing it quietly as well. These temperatures are just a little higher than an actual custom water loop.

Personal Experiences:
After about 30 days the pump ran dry (shouldn't happen in closed loop systems) and essentially destroyed itself, causing my GPU to go into thermal shutdown. Luckily the 600's series are designed to protect themselves from things like this so no GPU damage occured. But the Accelero Hybrid severely disappointed me, it was 110$ that i basically had to throw into the trash can after only a month. 

Conclusion:
Pros:
*Low temperatures
*Quiet pump

Cons:
*Tacky looking
*Low quality parts
*Dried up thermal paste