Self Contained Water Cooled Radeon X1900, Retail

Spinnerbait writes "Graphics cards are all the rage in the Enthusiast Computing community, where overclocking standard off-the-shelf components is commonplace. Recently innovative cooling solutions have been brought to Graphics cards in an effort to tame the thermals of their power hungry GPUs. It looks like some of the major vendors have taken it up a notch in this area, with this ATI-based Sapphire Graphics card that employs a self-contained water cooling system. Not only does the card have potential for serious overclocking but it should do so relatively quietly as well."

Comments

What a shitty submission.

[Spazntwich]

The "article" is a shitty little blurb with a few pictures. Not a single performance number or any bit of useful information.

My first instinct? Check the link for the submitter's webpage. Oh, what a coincidence.

Look, I'm not one to normally complain about poor stories and worthless submissions, but this one takes the cake. It's the most obvious grab for clicks and advertisement revenue that's been posted on /. in a while.

For shame, CowboyNeal.

Re:What a shitty submission.

[Spazntwich]

I wouldn't complain if he waited until they ran benchmarks, tried overclocking it, or had some actual news to report.

You know, the kinds of details that usually make it into a news article. This is "Hey, look. It's a videocard with a waterblock on it. Betcha never seen one of them before!" and the fact that it's shameless self-promotion only makes it worse.

nice teaser

[gEvil (beta)]

Since the article is really only a teaser, there isn't much to be said about it. However, assuming this thing works well, it's a nice direction to see the high-end GPU market head towards. Now if only I could afford one...

Thats all great but...

[Monkeys!!!]

Overclock all you want and you are still playing the same game as everyone else.

I'm not trolling, I'm just bitter that everyone is focused on pushing the graphical boundaries of games and leaving the game play for later. I remember a time when it was about hours of game play not frames per second.

*goes off to play Deus Ex*

Re:Thats all great but...

[cgenman]

Overclock all you want and you are still playing the same game as everyone else.

Rendering power is overrated when talking about game graphics. If you look at World of Warcraft, the game looks incredible. But it looks incredible on lower-end systems too... the art direction is just spot on across the board. Half-Life 2 uses some neat graphical tricks, but in general the game looks amazing because the artists had a clear vision of what they were creating and ensured that every pixel that went on the screen supports that. Look at the detail in the tree leaves... they're not super high-poly, they're just beautiful.

If your graphics card is good enough to run all of today's games, your graphics card is good enough. There really is no reason to spend 300 dollars every two years when spending 80 every two would be sufficient. If you want better looking games, look to lead artists, not to GPU engineers.

Too embarassing

[Expert Determination]

Remember when that company introduced cryogenically cooled PCs? I got one at work. It was amazing - it ran at 1GHz and I had the fastest machine in the building. But a few months later it was no longer the fastest in the building but it was definitely the dumbest machine in the building - especially with the 5 minute wait for it to cool down before booting. I won't make the same mistake with water cooled graphics cards.

Re:I'll Pass...

[iamplupp]

I agree. And all it takes is lowering the frequency by maybe 20% and you will be able to run it on much lower voltage and thus less power. And who needs that extra 20% anyway, really?