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

Water cooler huh?

[linguizic]

Maybe now I can play Doom 3 with the graphics settings all the way up!

Re:Your water cooling system needs to be better to

[NeMon'ess]

Look again. It dumps half the heat in the case, and blows the other half out. That's the sacrifice for a near-silent, 2-slot water cooled solution. If the cooler card took up 2 slots by itself I'm sure the fan could blow the air out the back. But then that's 3 slots total. The 120mm case fan(s) should handle this card just fine.

Re:Your water cooling system needs to be better to

[NeMon'ess]

Some jackass modded me redundant, which I wasn't, so I'll post again with more info. From Sapphire's Press Release:

Air is extracted from the case by an integral transparent blue LED fan, passed through the radiator and vented out of the case at the rear mounting bracket.

As you can see from the other photos, one end of the cooler vents out of the case while the other end is closed.