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Liquid Cooled X1900 XTX Card Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-barrel-of-oil-so-much-more-fun dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TrustedReview's Andrew Miller has posted a review of the new liquid cooled Radeon X1900 XTX card. There have been a few reviews floating around based on engineering samples of this product, but it sounds like the actual card turned out to be quite a sight to behold." From the review: "If you are seriously considering buying an X1900 XTX, then it is well worth paying the extra money for this card as the noise reduction is dramatic. The extra performance is just an added bonus. However, the 7950 GX2 is simultaneously faster and quieter for the same money. The X1900 XTX on the other hand has the option of HDR and FSAA as well as the possibility of running in Crossfire (assuming you can get hold of a similarly cooled master card).

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  1. Re:But. . . by Mike+Savior · · Score: 3, Informative

    Doom 3, Unreal Tournament, CS (via wine), games that run in cedega.. there might not be a slew of games for Linux and I know I'm missing some, but there are great ports out there that the troll community just likes to ignore for their own sake.

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  2. Re:No HDR/FSAA on 7950 GX2 - crap! by imboboage0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe it was in reference to running both HDR and AA at the same time. I don't know if this has been resolved since last I checked, but that was the advantage to having ATI as far as I could tell.

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  3. Not liquid cooling, but... by Rob+Simpson · · Score: 4, Informative
    Well, there are a bunch of low to mid-range cards from ASUS and Gigabyte which use big heatsinks and heatpipes for passive cooling, the fastest of which (that I am aware of, anyway) is the Asus EN7800GT Top Silent. Unlike the water-cooled card, these are actually silent, instead of just having a much quieter fan, though I suppose most people will be happy as long as their card doesn't sound like a jet engine.


    Here are links to the company websites, look for "Silent-Pipe" or "Silent" in the name...
    http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/Products_Lis t.aspx?VenderType=ATi&BUSType=PCI-E&BUSSpeed=16
    http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/Products_Lis t.aspx?VenderType=NVIDIA&BUSType=PCI-E&BUSSpeed=16
    http://usa.asus.com/products2.aspx?l1=2&l2=8
    http://usa.asus.com/products2.aspx?l1=2&l2=6

  4. Re:Extra performace not important anymore... by Shook18 · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.silentpcreview.com/ A few thousand people there seem to think noise is more important than performance.

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  5. Re:Mainstream liquid cooling. by Briareos · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'd rather see such cooling techniques used to make silent mid-range cards with good performance

    There you go...

    It's not as if fitting a cooler to a graphics card were hard or anything.
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  6. Re:Pathetic. by Superfarstucker · · Score: 2, Informative

    With proper water cooling i'm able to run @ 780/890 on these with only soft modifications. With hard voltage modifications these cards will do a lot more. (25-30% out of spec) Of course, from a value proposition it is all a waste of money, but it is fun to tinker. I don't think this is a good 'value proposition' either. Middle of the road is the best I suppose.

  7. It's a fairly trivial difference by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 3, Informative

    Water cooling pumps don't need a lot of wattage to run, neither do air cooling fans. In general water cooling probably uses slightly more power since usually the water cooling radiator is air cooled, so you've fans and a pump. However it's just not a significant amount of power next to the other draws in the system.

    Rememeber all the power is needed for is moving things around, either air or water. There's not a compressor or anything.