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Water-cooled Radeon X1950 XTX Benchmarks
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."
Read the print article: http://firingsquad.com/print_article.asp?current_s ection=Hardware&fs_article_id=2018
" The card is also overclocked to 695MHz for added performance."
I remember when chip stability was a feature of production equipment. I suppose some people like to use more power and get more from their chip, but when the company does it for you, is it really "over" clocked? I presume it doesn't invalidate the warranty. If it doesn't, then its simply a marketing buzzword gimick, giving you underpowered chips, and eeking out more than they are best suited for.
Oh You POS
Their full press release is a word document.
While I know Openoffice can open it, can't these people use something more friendly?
Common sense is not so common
I got my taste of over powerful hardware already...
I mean what's the point of a system so powerful that you simply can't peg it? I'll freey admit it's badass (I get my kicks from my clusters at work - gotta love power hungry IT managers!) But with graphics I just don't see the point. I bought a 6800GT when it first came out and I have to admit, I'm perfectly happy with it at 1024x768@85hz and mid to high detail on most games. I've yet to openly marvel at the better stuff in HL2,Q4,or F.E.A.R. since I'm usually too busy trying not to die! However... maybe there isn't a point and that's what makes hardware like this badass. In anycase NVIDIA all the way since getting ATI to work under linux can sometimes drive you to drink! (I don't know about you but I like to get what I pay for and I do with Nvidia not with ATI's stripped down drivers!)
Of course that's just my opinion I could be wrong.
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So, bottomline is: it's the fastest top end ATI card out there with the price to match.
The internet needs more video card reviews!
Go Slashdot go!
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Sorry....another "Anonymous Coward" already posted a few years back.
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Yeah!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
How can you review a 19xx-series ATI card and not include a Folding@home benchmark?
Last Hurrah for ATI engineers. Once we buy them we are firing all of them .
We just want the chipset business. We dont need GPUs . We will be putting Graphics cores in our next chip with heterogenous cores
Huaaaahahaha .
Evil AMDer !!!!
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...does it come with a cooler for my wallet ?
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
Sapphire has just released their liquid-cooled Radeon X1950 XTX card, the Toxic X1950 XTX.
Bah, that's nothing. You should see my liquid-cooled Dell laptop.
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To calculate the rough performance of any given 3d card, take the number of "X"s in the name and multiply by the price. Should give a fairly accurate 3dmark score.
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Next month, nVidia will release the 7777 Lucky Seven Fever GTX-EXR-Type S-Twin Turbo. It can transform into a fighter jet, power zord, or GPU. I might be able to afford the card itself, but I'm going to ask my parents to co-sign a loan for me so I can afford a new PSU to power it. I'll post my 3dMark score ASAP!
I fail to see the usefullness of the watercooling. I could understand if the radiator was fanless, but it's not. Why wouldn't they just attach the heatsync to the card, and drop the whole watercooling thing. It's a lot less complicated, with less to break or leak. When you look at the design, they could have anther card slot dedicated to a heatsync (like the NVidia 7900GTX), and then they wouldn't have to sacrifice heatsync room for the water resivoir and pump. If they put the heat sync on the card, they could put a bigger fan on it, and it would be quiet, like the NVidia 7900GTX. I'm sorry, but I really don't see how this is useful to anyone, since you can't hook it up to another liquid cooling pump that would also be cooling your CPU.
I have never used a water cooling system. Has anyone seen what happens when one malfunctions inside your case?
So, it's a stock card that has liquid cooling. The only reason this is noteworth, aside from the geek factor, is that the cooling allows for moderate overclocking (695 vs 650 MHz), resulting in moderate performance gains.
The 7950GX2 is SLI on a card. It can only be made quad-SLI if you run TWO nVidia 7950GX2 cards, which was not done in this situation.
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what happens if you forget to water the computer..
I fail to see why anyone would spend an extra $200, or 60% more than a regular x1900xtx card, to buy this card that averages less than 5% performance gain at best and in most cases less than 4%. Additionally, in many cases this card was outperformed by the 7950GX2 card that is only $40 more with no watercooling.
There is no way any mere mortal, gamer or otherwise, will be able to tell the difference between 79fps with the stock x1900xtx card, and 83fps with the fancy schmancy overclocked card. At some point you just have to realize that a card like this is just a marketing gimmick that plays to the guy who has to have the 'l33test' setup around.
What are they using for a cooling liquid, ethylene glycol perhaps?
Oh, I get it, it's hyperbole. So now if I buy a product that says "toxic" on the box, there's no way of knowing whether it is or isn't, and whether I can leave it around young kids without them getting too curious and going to the hospital. Ingenious! What will they think of next?
...when all we had to worry about were memory leaks?
Have gnu, will travel.
So basically what these benchmarks are saying is buy an nvidia 7950 gx2.
How about Word users learning to save documents as .RTF? All the formatting, all the crunchy font goodness, even cutesy ASCII art if they want it.
.RTF for Word documents, you need to take some basic computer courses.
Smaller download size, doesn't give out your history, revisions and personal information to everyone on the planet, and won't spread macro viruses.
And every word processing program written in the last 10 years will open it without any problems or loss of content. All it takes is selecting "Save as" from the file menu when you're ready to post it.
Friends don't send friends files in native format for any document that is intended for wide distribution. If you're unaware of the availability of of
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