PowerColour Watercooled 290x

[ShaunB-91]

Watercooled 290x by PowerColor/EK Water Blocks

Hey boys just stumbled across this.

PowerColour have partnered up with EK Water Blocks to provide a much better, cooler 290x.

The cooling solution directly cools the GPU, memory and other important parts of the card and comes pre-overclocked.

"The GPU core runs at 1060MHz, 60MHz over reference; also the card's 4GB of DDR5 memory runs at 1350MHz, which is 100MHz above reference. Despite these boosts to clock speed the LCS keeps the card running at under 60°C, even under full load, says PowerColor. The firm supplies this card with high-flow 3/8-inch and ½-inch fittings and o-rings to help you integrate this card into your liquid cooling setup.

This graphics card also features PowerColor's 'Gold Power Kit' to aid in stability and durability. This kit is composed of; a Digital PWM solution, DirectFET low impedance components and shielded Ferrite Core Chokes."

 

[SeekaX]

they put sub 60 degrees on their banner with a watercooled card?
isn't ~45 degrees normal for watercooled gpus on full load?

 

[Meladath]

they put sub 60 degrees on their banner with a watercooled card?
isn't ~45 degrees normal for watercooled gpus on full load?

Yes but I imagine they possibly put this so that people don't complain if they get high temps due to bad fans/rads and such.

 

[barnsley]

Yes but I imagine they possibly put this so that people don't complain if they get high temps due to bad fans/rads and such.

Yeah, you must remember that there are loud mouths with poorly made loops in Thermaltake level 10s who'll complain that the GPU is running warm because they only use stock case fans on the rads or do something more stupid.