Aqua Computing Shows Off World's First Radeon 7970 Water Block
Aqua Computing Shows Off World's First Radeon 7970 Water Block
Posted 12/30/2011 at 12:08pm
| by Brad Chacos
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Did you read our write-up of the spiffy new AMD Radeon 7970 earlier this week and find yourself getting all hot and bothered at the thought of kick-ass custom rigs built around the beast? Well, one company can help you cool down. The new graphics cards aren’t even available in stores yet but that hasn’t stopped the Germany-based Aqua Computer from putting the AquagrATIx 7900 up for preorder. What’s that, you might ask? Only the first 7970 water block available on the market.
Aqua Computter claims the water block should fit Radeon 7950 cards when they're released, too. There’s not really all that much to say about the water block other than that. It’s made out of what looks to be a single piece of copper with a stainless steel cover. It uses standard G 1/4” threads, though the fittings don’t come included. Early adopters can preorder one now for roughly $116.
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JohnP
December 30, 2011 at 12:18pm
Donno about the "beast" part as the benchmarks that I have seen on a bunch of sites did not exactly knock my socks off for a next-gen graphics card with faster clocks, more memory, more streaming processors, a fatter memory pipeline, new architecture, AND a die shrink.
A water block cooling solution will be useful as Ars showed that the card is going to be loud.
Gezzer
December 31, 2011 at 8:21pm
I'm with you on that one.
After all the hype I've been hearing before it was "released". It's faster then a 6990! Then it's all most as fast as a 6990! When they finally took the wraps off the puppy, I'm kind of underwhelmed. Still it's not a bad card and hopfully when the drivers are fully cooked we'll see better performance.
I've got a 3x120 rad and all it's doing is the CPU. So I'm pretty sure I'll be adding my new GPU/s to the loop. I wonder how good a block this one is?
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