EVGA show off Titan Z with a ACX and Hydro Copper Cooler

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EVGA has made two custom-cooled TITAN Zs, The Hydro Cooper model for the enthusiast water cooler and the ACX dual fanned Air cooled model for the all air power user.

While these new cooling options are interesting, with the base Titan Z price tag being £2400 I doubt many people will actually be using these modified designs.

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First we will have a look at the Titan Z ACX, which used a separate heatsink for each core which cooled by its own Fan. It is likely that this model will come with a Nvidia Stock cooler and the ACX Cooler due to Nvidia's restrictions on their recent Titan Cards, so any potential owner will have to consider this additional work when making a purchase.

Other than the Z accent on the cooler itself and the Titan Z branding on the side, this card doesn't look any different from any other EVGA ACX card.

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Secondly we have the Hydro Copper, EVGA's custom water cooled Titan Z.

It features a EK waterblock with EVGA branding on the top, similar to the Aries III waterblock (also made by EK).

Clock speeds and pricing remains unconfirmed, but expect for all buyers to take a particularly heavy hit in the wallet and with reviews still unavailable we cannot possibly recommend these cards over other other options available.

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If you want the best single card experience available, and do not want the AMD R9 295X2, you will have little choice here but you would be a fool to discount the AMD option so easily. Without reviews my money is on AMDs dual GPU card being on top.

What do you guys think of the two custom cooled Titan Zs from EVGA? Was there even much point in going to the effort designing them? Please post your thoughts and felling below.

Source - EVGA & VR-zone
 
supermassive e-peen. maybe worth to put in a museum as a "so far the most overpriced graphics card built". where I live at, that money can buy a decent car. used, but decent.
I'd rather take 2x 295's and get a ridicilous quadfire BBQ machine for that money :D
 
Clock speeds and pricing remains unconfirmed

According to the EVGA website, the Hydro Copper clock speeds were listed as:

Base Clock: 758 MHz
Boost Clock: 941 MHz

Didn't know about the ACX version, that's still not listed :)
 
3000 quid for a graphics card is just silly, and sad, also silly

I just fail to see any sense in getting a Titan Z... If I were to spend that much money on a graphics card that would get outdated within 2 years at most, I would buy 3 Titan Blacks... It would perform better in every single way, but just would occupy 3 expansion slots, at least 50% better performance on paper for the same cost. I cannot think of any sane person buying the Titan Z, it just does not make any sense, neither from performance nor from cost efficiency standpoints.

With Nvidia's current strategies in the market given especially... I.e. The Nvidia Gameworks being so closed and restricting developers to prioritize Nvidia, with GSync being again closed, with all their voltage locking, performance and card locking strategies... I just cannot stop myself from saying they are damaging the industry.

I put my money on 295x2 as a dual gpu solution, it performs within 5% margins higher or lower regardless, for half the price, eyes closed.
 
Looking forward to seeing the performance from the ACX, it may even beat the 295x2 on performance, definitely not temps though.
Obviously the Hydro Copper will beat the 295x2 on both performance and temps (with an overclock), but we would need to see it put up against a fully watercooled 295x2 to make it fair.
 
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@$3700 au for a standard Evga TitanZ which is a ludicrous price I'd hate to see what these would be

Pretty much. Cards are too expensive here in AUS, I'm buying mine from Amazon
from now on. They're over $50 cheaper than PCCG on a bad day more on a good day heh. Picked up a DCII for like $570 vs $649 here.
 
Pretty much. Cards are too expensive here in AUS, I'm buying mine from Amazon
from now on. They're over $50 cheaper than PCCG on a bad day more on a good day heh. Picked up a DCII for like $570 vs $649 here.

Only trouble I've found trying to use amazon is the postage price for a majority of their stuff is too over the top
 
Only trouble I've found trying to use amazon is the postage price for a majority of their stuff is too over the top

can you not get prime over there? it's like £50 a year and then you get free next-day postage for that entire year. I've more than made up for it for the amount of crap i order off that damn site
 
can you not get prime over there? it's like £50 a year and then you get free next-day postage for that entire year. I've more than made up for it for the amount of crap i order off that damn site

TBH I wouldn't have a clue never bothered to look maybe I should :o
 
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