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[Bumblebee]

Found it while surfing the interwebs...

BFG GTX 295 H20C

First time ive seen it and the first self contained water cooled gpu ive seen too. Kinda simular to corsiars contained system but i noticed that if you use this card you cant have a large air cooler like the Zalman 9500 unless you mount the radiator in the front of the case, pretty cool though... cept the $850 price tag.

bumble

[wondergod]

ya I saw this a few weeks ago and that enormous price tag makes it ridiculous. You could by that card and build your own water cooling solution that is 10 times better for nowhere near that cost.

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[DarkShadow]

Sapphire did that to a 1900xt back in the day iirc, and yeah, 850 USD = 4x 4890's with shipping.

[Bumblebee]

Sapphire did that to a 1900xt back in the day iirc, and yeah, 850 USD = 4x 4890's with shipping.

God could you imagine how much power 4X 4890's would consume? That would be a heat pump sufficent to heat your house in the winter...

[Chilly]

^ Not to mention your electricity bill =P

Edited by Chilly, 18 August 2009 - 09:47 PM.

[wondergod]

God could you imagine how much power 4X 4890's would consume? That would be a heat pump sufficent to heat your house in the winter...

Actually although GPU's are hotter than CPUs, they also have higher thermal thresholds, so a good 320 radiator would be fine for 4 GPU's a Core i7 920@4Ghz needs its own 320 radiator by itself.

Coupled with a PhII 955 or such 4x4890s could probably run on a Extremely efficient 900 watt possibly 850, with no other extra peripherals. Although I'd run at least a 1000watt to stay in the sweet spot of the PSU's efficiency curve.

I've run with a i7-920@4GHz, 3x4890s, Raptor, SSD, 2 pumps, and about 10-12 fans and I pull no more than 750 at the wall at full CPU and GPU load via OCCT.


Also Sapphire also did a Similar setup with the 4870 Atomic but I believe it also had a CPU block in the pre-made loop.


I say boo to pre-plumbed loops they usually suck.

[Bumblebee]

Isnt it the 4870 X2's that suck alot of power?