Sapphire's Liquid Cooled Blizzard Radeon X1900 XTX

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Sapphire's brand-new Blizzard Radeon X1900 XTX card's "out-of-box" specifications don't differ from other Radeon X1900 XTXs, but as you can see it sports a unique, self-contained liquid cooling apparatus. The cards are ready for shipment.

Those interested in Sapphire's card will have to take caution however, as the card consumes considerable space. With standard Radeon X1900 XTX boards already taking up two expansion bays, Sapphire's monster card takes up an additional bay for a total of three slots.


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The cooler is comprised of a pure copper GPU water block and radiator, with an adjustable transparent blue LED fan rated at 18/26dBA at 2000/2500RPM.

The water cooling unit's electronic fan helps move air over the radiators for increased performance. The fan can be turned on or off depending on how far a customer chooses to overclock the board.

The card's onboard memory chips are cooled by conventional heatsinks, which while adequate, don't really provide balanced cooling performance. Overclocking the card's memory would be improved had there been a heat pipe connecting all the memory heatsinks to the water-block.

Specs

  • [*]Blizzard Cooling System
    [*]Copper water block and radiator
    [*]512MB GDDR3 memory
    [*]650MHz Core
    [*]1550MHz Memory
    [*]PCIe 16x native
    [*]Dual DVI outputs
    [*]Video In/Video Out connectors
 
Droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllll.

They shud have also provided some better cooling for the ram chip.

Sapphire really comes with some gr8 products.
 
Well... Not only Sapphaire but club 3D has also come up with a Liquid cooled solution... But i am more looking forward to Zalman's V9700 the new dual Heat pipe GPU cooling solution... Nice and small...
 
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