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Kal-EL
01-18-2010, 10:30 AM
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http://tpucdn.com/images/transparent.1.gif PowerColor Announces LCS Radeon HD 5970 Liquid-Cooled Graphics Card (http://www.overclockaholics.com/113163/PowerColor_Announces_LCS_Radeon_HD_5970_Liquid-Cooled_Graphics_Card.html)
TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD (http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/#) graphics cards, is thrilled to announce the world's fastest GPU with liquid cooling solution: the PowerColor LCS HD5970 2GB GDDR5. Equipped with the award-winning EK cooling solution, LCS HD5970 enables superior gaming experiences, and easily boosts up the potential overclcoking ability in an ultra quite and cool operating environment.

PowerColor LCS HD5970 has a full water block mounted, which fully covers the memory and power regulator chip. With a copper base design, it is reduces temperature up to 30°C compared with the reference version. PowerColor packages a high-flow 3/8" and 1/2" fittings (barbs) to maximize water flow with captured o-rings to prevent leakage. Gamers can effortlessly customize their own liquid cooling system using these two fittings.

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Buckeye
01-18-2010, 10:43 AM
Great $800+ and I need 2 of them :(

Better to get the blocks seperate so you can always go back to stock air cooler ??

Kal-EL
01-18-2010, 10:55 AM
I dunno, saw alot of hub bub about blocks messing up cards, least this way you should have a reasonable assumption the block with actually work.

Neuromancer
01-18-2010, 11:08 AM
Little overpriced though.

RomDominance
01-18-2010, 01:53 PM
Got my 5970 (http://cgi.ebay.com/Sapphire-ATI-Radeon-5970-Overclock-Edt-DD-water-setup_W0QQitemZ120518566735QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_ Video_TV_Cards?hash=item1c0f77634f) on ebay right now with the entire water setup, I think its quite reasonable, your thoughts guys?:thumbsup:

Kal-EL
01-18-2010, 07:34 PM
Got my 5970 (http://cgi.ebay.com/Sapphire-ATI-Radeon-5970-Overclock-Edt-DD-water-setup_W0QQitemZ120518566735QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_ Video_TV_Cards?hash=item1c0f77634f) on ebay right now with the entire water setup, I think its quite reasonable, your thoughts guys?:thumbsup:

My thoughts? You didn't post up your benchmark progress with this card :blink::thumbdown:

How'd she fair?

Neuromancer
01-18-2010, 09:32 PM
If it is on eBay I assume not to well LOL

karmakazi
01-19-2010, 04:43 AM
Nice price Rom, I got my 5970 on ebay right now too.... gotta sell now while prices are still hot :)

MaadDaawg
01-28-2010, 02:53 PM
I had three of the 5870 LCS and they were great water blocks. The cards themselves though didn't OC very well so I sent em back

Witchdoctor
01-28-2010, 02:59 PM
Sick card for a gaming rig .....

I am on the single GPU train for benchin these days.......

crime doesn't pay .........................:ohcrap:

The only way I could afford it would be to steal one ................:taunt: