Water comes to GTX 590 courtesy of Point of View & TGT

by Navin Maini on 18 April 2011, 15:01

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PowerColor is reportedly working on a liquid-cooled HD 6990, but Point of View and TGT are said to be ready with an NVIDIA GTX 590 flavoured option of their own.

The GTX 590 Beast, as it's known, has an aquagraFX water block from Aqua Computer strapped on, and apparently performs quite admirably - roughly 30°C cooler than air cooling - coming in at around the 50°C mark.

Clock speeds are also bumped up to 691MHz, 1,382MHz and 3,710MHz (effective) for the core, shaders and 3,072MB GDDR5 memory, respectively. It doesn't appear that everything could be squeezed into a single-slot format though, as PowerColor seems to have achieved with the LCS HD 6990.

If it's pricing that has peaked your curiosity, how does the £700+ ballpark sound?



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Those clocks are pretty tame. Wonder what the maximum overclock is on it?

Makes me glad I bought my SLI 480's. They're still competitive with 580's in SLI, and almost half the price now… Just need to have shares in Powergen to run them :)
Seriously which idiot spends £700+ on a GFX card alone. You can build an entire system for less!

I wouldn't spend more than £200 on any component of my PC. Anything £200+ (especially for a GFX card) the bang per buck falls sharply.
I have a 5850 running at 1GHz on water and it never gets higher than 38°C.

Different league of card, I know, but those temperatures still don't really bowl me over, for a single GPU card.
AlexKitch
I have a 5850 running at 1GHz on water and it never gets higher than 38°C.

Different league of card, I know, but those temperatures still don't really bowl me over, for a single GPU card.

*cough* it's a dual GPU card..
well it depends on what setup they have and also that 50C is pretty damn good! Its a dual gpu card and its a fermi card which we all know are much hotter than amd cards so 12C hotter than your single mid/high range card is pretty stellar…