Monday, April 28th 2014
GIGABYTE Unveils its WaterForce VGA Liquid-Cooling Solution
Having earned a reputation for itself in VGA air-cooling with its WindForce line, it was only natural that it would name its VGA liquid-cooling solutions WaterForce. GIGABYTE showed its contraption off to crowds attending its Tech Tour event held on 25th April, 2014. The solution makes AMD's Asetek-made cooler for its R9 295X2 seem puny in comparison. It consists of a large external module that contains the coolant reservoirs, a gargantuan radiator with multiple fans, the pumps, and ports for coolant tubes for individual cards, that make their way into your case through a hub that takes up a 5.25-inch drive bay.
The main unit also has a coolant temperature display for each of the coolant channel, and controls that let you fine-tune cooling performance taking temperatures and noise into account. The tubes then reach each of the installed WaterForce series graphics cards, which feature full-coverage water blocks that cover not just the GPU, but also memory and VRM. The system GIGABYTE demoed had three cards based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti. GIGABYTE also showed off its new WindForce 600W cooling solution, which recently made its debut as part of a bundle with the company's GeForce GTX TITAN Black graphics card. It's capable of handling thermal loads as high as 600W.
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VR-Zone
The main unit also has a coolant temperature display for each of the coolant channel, and controls that let you fine-tune cooling performance taking temperatures and noise into account. The tubes then reach each of the installed WaterForce series graphics cards, which feature full-coverage water blocks that cover not just the GPU, but also memory and VRM. The system GIGABYTE demoed had three cards based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti. GIGABYTE also showed off its new WindForce 600W cooling solution, which recently made its debut as part of a bundle with the company's GeForce GTX TITAN Black graphics card. It's capable of handling thermal loads as high as 600W.
22 Comments on GIGABYTE Unveils its WaterForce VGA Liquid-Cooling Solution
great idea buy why no pics?
the box on top is overkill but a self contained add on case for water cooling can add so much more cooling ability to any case that this might work.
personally i am more interested to hear about them selling cards with full face water blocks as stock. save so much hassle.
It doesn't look good with all those scratches/marks.
Gee.. relex, people. Wait for more info and benchmarks instead of judging a product by a brief look.
just look at all the tentacles forced into the mouth of the victim.
The lack of cable management makes it impossible to see the water cooling tubes and how they connect to the GPUs///