News - PowerColor gets official with liquid-cooled Radeon HD 5870 LCS

[HEXUS]

PowerColor's factory-overclocked and liquid-cooled Radeon HD 5870 LCS available next week.

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[MrRobin]

IMHO 3% / 4% increase in performance is hardly worth the effort? I certainly doubt it will be worth the price, probably ~£100 premium on standard 5870...

[HW_90]

IMHO 3% / 4% increase in performance is hardly worth the effort? I certainly doubt it will be worth the price, probably ~£100 premium on standard 5870...

maybe at stock it will be not worth it, but I'm gonna guess that with a little MSI afterburner you could probably get past 1100MHz.

[GheeTsar]

It might also allow for quieter cooling. I hear the 5870 is a bit of a hairdryer under load.

[MrRobin]

It might also allow for quieter cooling. I hear the 5870 is a bit of a hairdryer under load.

Ahh yes indeed. Forgot about the aural benefits.

[Perfectionist]

Yeah I kinda figured the same (I had a 4870x2 before and it was the same, like a damn aeroplane taking off), that's why I'm going for watercooled 5870 in mine - I wonder if this would be quieter though, not knowing much about the process myself?

[HW_90]

Yeah I kinda figured the same (I had a 4870x2 before and it was the same, like a damn aeroplane taking off), that's why I'm going for watercooled 5870 in mine - I wonder if this would be quieter though, not knowing much about the process myself?

when you get into watercooling setup's the noise comes from the fans on the radiator(unless you get one of those huge passive rads on OCUK) and the pump. With more noise coming from the fans than the pump

so as long as you get low noise fans it should be fine.

[nightkhaos]

when you get into watercooling setup's the noise comes from the fans on the radiator(unless you get one of those huge passive rads on OCUK) and the pump. With more noise coming from the fans than the pump

so as long as you get low noise fans it should be fine.

Those huge Passive ones are expensive, and will varry a lot depending on the enviroment in which they are placed. They are not worth the risk imho. Althrough they do look pretty cool. I would probably use an array of them on a super overclock build and place them into a wind tunnel if I was ever gonna use them in a build.

[Netvyper]

It says in the article, single slot design, yet the image clearly shows it taking up 2 slots to provide a 2nd DVI connector, which is soldered to the board?

Will this be changed before retail for true single slot? perhaps like LowProfile 4350s, having a ribbon based connection, which is optional.

[explicit4u]

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UPDATE October 29th, 2009 16:05 GMT - We learned the retail price. According to Andre Santos, PR and Marketing manager in TuL Corporation [parent company for PowerColor] the recommended retail price is Euro 429.99 in EMEA region, and around 449 USD in North America. The price difference exists due to radical difference in VAT [Value Added Tax] between Europe and North America.