Gainward CoolFX 1600 Geforce FX 5900 Ultra Water Cooled

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The complete kit in our case was connected so all you have to do is to plug the card in a board, connect the 12V connector in the card, and connect the 12V HDD to your pump along with the three pin fan unit.

This installation takes only a minute or two. Placing a radiator and pump in a case takes a little longer...

The card boots exactly like an air cooled one with the exception that you will hear some water gurgling through the pump.

Even without the final shipping BIOS, the card we tested worked fine until 510/520MHz, and the memory clocking was easily increased to 950MHz and above.

The temperature sensor showed about 35 Celsius in 2D mode, and reaches about 45 degrees Celsius in 3D apps after running it for a while.

Apart from the slight gurgling noise, this is a very quiet system and even with high 3D loads it's really very quiet.

At only 475/900 MHz the card was 250 points faster than the Radeon 9800 PRO default scores in 3dmark03 and Quake 3 gave even better results.

At 500/970MHz in Quake 3 we got some nice scores with it ending up 20 FPS faster in 1600x1200.

Source : The Inquirer

<smallfont>Im still sticking to ATI</smallfont>

TheLostSwede

Pretty steap pricetag here in europe for that thing, over 800 us dollars.

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Mackanz said
Pretty steap pricetag here in europe for that thing, over 800 us dollars.

... especially when there are plenty of people who can build their own equivelant setup

/me looks shifty @ the dodgy Swede

TheLostSwede

Well, for half that price, you get a Radeon 9700 card and a good complete watercooling setup for the whole computer with 3 blocks. I don`t think they will sell any masses of that card to the normal user and the hardcore overclocker probably decides to build his own. Thats my 2 cents. Block looks cool though. Has the shape of a green at Augusta National golf course. 12th hole. 160 yards from white tee. Easy 8 iron.