Coolfx

[Jonny M]

Just don't skimp on the thermal paste

[Donny John]

What sort of price are you expecting to pitch it at?

[Bindibadgi]

Originally posted by Caged
Just don't skimp on the thermal paste

well as long as its good stuff no generic silicone blerugh although some is better than none.

Tubing is 1/4" - same as koolance and other innovtek stuff from reading other threads

[Andy]

Originally posted by Donny John
What sort of price are you expecting to pitch it at?

Around the £500 mark all though pricing is not as yet confirmed....

[Andy]

Full kit with all of the additional connectors etc....

[fondie]

do you have to stick the CoolFX logo onto the waterblock yourself then?

what radiator is that please?

[Bindibadgi]

Originally posted by fondie
what radiator is that please?

At a guess its this one:

http://www.innovatek.de/contentServ/...php?StoryID=86

But it might be a custom jobbie by innovatek since the block is custom too.

LOL @ that "kit" pic above, but i think youve left out one vital component:








for those who dont understand what im trying to get on at - Gainward are notorious for chucking everything in with their products but i think they included everything as usual but this time forgot the kitchen sink.

[walibe]

pricing around 500 pound,

I think the main market will be for people who want to add it to their existing watercooled setups, few will pay that much for a graphics card. The few who will spend that sort of money on a component of their computer system will almost certainly be into some sort of water cooling or vapochill ect so it is important it be available without the radiator/pump ect.

As for first graphics card available with watercooling out of the box, I seem to remember bit-tech doing something along the same lines although I fail to remember which company this was with?

[fondie]

Originally posted by walibe
I think the main market will be for people who want to add it to their existing watercooled setups, few will pay that much for a graphics card. The few who will spend that sort of money on a component of their computer system will almost certainly be into some sort of water cooling or vapochill ect so it is important it be available without the radiator/pump ect.

As for first graphics card available with watercooling out of the box, I seem to remember bit-tech doing something along the same lines although I fail to remember which company this was with?

i have to agree that i don't really see the market for a standalone watercooled graphics card, it makes no sense to just watercool your graphics card, if you've got the kit there for watercooling, you may as watercool everything, there's no real advantage to having two systems either, it may cut a couple of degrees off temps but will take up twice the room, and you could just get a single more powerful system.

bit-tech were reporting on the gainward card in it's early stages, at that time it was using bladerunner's waterblock design, it was a beautiful creation but apparently too expensive to mass produce

[walibe]

bladerunner's waterblock design, it was a beautiful creation but apparently too expensive to mass produce

Damn, that was a beautiful block.

[luke313]

It does seem that the market will be for the solution without the whole kit because of all the people that will be moving to watercooling due to the even more heat that is going to be coming with prescott. There wont be many, if any, quiet air-cooled solutions available to cool this amount of heat, and graphics cards may well go this way in the future too. Hats off to Gainward tbh.

[Andy]

Originally posted by walibe
As for first graphics card available with watercooling out of the box, I seem to remember bit-tech doing something along the same lines although I fail to remember which company this was with?

The Bit-Tech article was with our card!!!! This is the first (again, as far as i know) mass produced, packaged and endorsed by the manufacturer, watercooled Graphics card!

[walibe]

The Bit-Tech article was with our card!!!! This is the first (again, as far as i know) mass produced, packaged and endorsed by the manufacturer, watercooled Graphics card!

Yeah okay we established this - look above

The main point is the market this is targeted at in its current state is so small, the biggest market will be those who just want the GPU block and card for their existing set ups.

PJ

[Bindibadgi]

Originally posted by walibe
Yeah okay we established this - look above

The main point is the market this is targeted at in its current state is so small, the biggest market will be those who just want the GPU block and card for their existing set ups.

PJ

Well youve got to start somewhere. The ultra high end enthusiast market is teeny anyway, but with all first gen stuff there's room for improvement.

Problem with the watercooling market is there's so many connections/blocks its hard to get a standard that everyone likes

[Old_Fart]

Having already gone the route of owning several water-cooled rigs now for about 3+ years, I'm not sure where I stand on the subject of water-cooled video cards right out of the box (as this one appears to be).

I suppose if I had nothing at all (no water cooling hardware), this might be a good step in the right direction (toward a complete water cooled solution). However, for what they're asking for this rig (something like $1000 U.S.) you could EASILY buy all the water cooling parts for every component (CPU/GPU/motherboard chipset) AND a new case along with a stock 5900 FX and take your chances as to it's out-of-the-box performance (hoping for the best).

In fact, you could probably (as I have) buy TEC water blocks and REALLY crank on the card to see what it will do. I also water-cooled the NForce 2 chip on my motherboard (no TEC block on it though) and have 2 radiators with 2 fans on each radiator. These are all very low speed fans so my system is extremely quiet.

The Gainward "kit" looks to be of very good quality ... although I've never had very good luck with either Innovatek products (I've tried every brand out there) or the tiny 8mm hose they use. I use 5/8" hose have found the more water you pump thru these things, the better they work. I also use the big Eheim water pump (over 300 GPH) along with a Danger Den reservoir.

Getting back to the appeal of the Gainward FX water-cooled card, it does have a certain amount TECH attraction. However (again), you can buy a LOT of water cooling hardware and a top-performing video card for $1000.

In the end, I seriously doubt they'll sell very many of these cards. I'm sure there are plenty of knuckle-heads out there who are willing to shell out $1000 just to brag about owning THE most expensive video card made. I think most of us though have a LOT more sense than that and will put our hard earned dollars to much better use.

Later.

[walibe]

I think you've said it all.