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CoolIT Announces Water Cooling Kit For Radeon 4870 X2 GPUs

CoolIT Systems late yesterday announced the Dual Drive Bay VGA Cooler designed to aggressively cool AMD’s new ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Graphics card. The unique form factor enables extreme computing performance for PC Enthusiasts and Gamers. In recent testing, the liquid cooled cards were stably clocked up to 880MHz (13.5% Increase) core clock speed and the GDDR5 memory pushed to 1GHz (11% increase). I'm not sure how they did the math, but with reference GPU clock is 750MHz, so that is a 17% increase. The results, if correct, seem to be better than what we were able to do with the reference cooler in our recent review on the Radeon HD 4870 X2.

"The liquid cooling technology that AMD co-developed with CoolIT provides superior cooling protection for users who want to operate their ATI Radeon graphics processors at high clock speeds for extended periods of time,” said Dr. Gamal Refai-Ahmed, AMD Fellow and Chief Thermal Architect, AMD Graphics Product Group. “By delivering an innovative, compelling solution inside a unique form factor, CoolIT helps enable ATI Radeon graphics processors to perform at high levels.”

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Posted by | Fri, Aug 15, 2008 - 07:50 AM