CoolIT 4870X2 Water Cooler
Yes, 4870X2 is out and I want one. Not now necessarily. I can wait a bit longer, ‘till ATI’s partners release good overclocked versions, or I could get a water cooler and overclock a standard version.
Asetek was first to release a water cooler for the new 3D king, but CoolIT now comes with a cheaper, still effective, water block which allows users to overclock their GPUs as much as 13.5%. Moreover, the CoolIT solution is marketed to consumers not just OEMs.
Recent tests have proven that the 4870X2 gets really hot, at around 90 degrees Celsius, but CoolIT worked with AMD to develop a liquid cooling system that would make overclocking the X2 both straightforward and stable. This allowed for frequency increases for both GPU and memories of around 13.5%
“We recently benchmarked this card using 3D Mark Vantage and increased the Graphics score from X7125 at stock settings to X8148 which represents a performance increase of well over 10%” Geoff Lyon, CEO of CoolIT Systems.
Preliminary test have shown that a liquid cooled card can be overclocked up to 880MHz (13.5% increase) core clock speed and the GDDR5 memory slightly over to 1GHz (11% increase). The cooler occupies one bay so the entire setup takes up two in total.
According to Slashgear, the CoolIT solution is expected to hit the shelves in mid September. No price for now.
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