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  1. Water-cooled Radeon X1950 XTX Benchmarks

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the overcompensate-much? dept. · 49 comments
    sand writes "Sapphire has just released their liquid-cooled Radeon X1950 XTX card, the Toxic X1950 XTX. Located on top of the GPU is a water block from Thermaltake that is connected to an separate cooling unit which houses a 12V pump, radiator, and fan. The card is also overclocked to 695MHz for added performance. Firingsquad has a complete review of the board, including benchmarks against NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2 Quad SLI card."

  2. Liquid Metal Cooling in New ATI Video Card

    Tech · Graphics · · posted by timothy · from the not-that-that's-excessive-or-anything dept. · 335 comments
    MellowTigger writes "Water cooling is so passe, definitely 20th-century. What's the 21st-century geek to do to keep his gaming video card cool? Try the liquid metal technology that will be included in the ATI Radeon X850 XT video card using the cooling technology from Sapphire. This material is reported to be non-flammable, non-toxic, environmentally safe... and 65 times more thermally conductive than water."