Tuesday, April 7th 2009
Water Cooled Radeon HD 4890 Launching Next Week
PowerColor will launch the world's first water cooled Radeon HD 4890 next week, less than one week after the RV790 card was officially launched.
Part of PowerColor's LCS series, the upcoming Radeon card comes with a single-slot EK-made waterblock that has a copper base and high-flow 3/8" or 1/2" fittings. The waterblock should lower the GPU temperature by up to 20°C compared to the reference air heatsink. PowerColor will ship the Radeon HD 4890 LCS with GPU and memory clocks of 900 and 4000 MHz respectively.
The MSRP of the card will be $339.
Source:
TechConnect
Part of PowerColor's LCS series, the upcoming Radeon card comes with a single-slot EK-made waterblock that has a copper base and high-flow 3/8" or 1/2" fittings. The waterblock should lower the GPU temperature by up to 20°C compared to the reference air heatsink. PowerColor will ship the Radeon HD 4890 LCS with GPU and memory clocks of 900 and 4000 MHz respectively.
The MSRP of the card will be $339.
17 Comments on Water Cooled Radeon HD 4890 Launching Next Week
I appreciate it is a reference board so probably comes pre-attatched, but does it really take much to replace it with a single slot one?
Hmmm.... watercooled 4890.
The HD4890 cooler is far more substantial than anything you'd find on an HD4850, so going to WC'ing isn't going to result in such a substantial temperature drop.
But I'm sure this is all well known blather anyways.
Regardless it's a nice touch for the niche group of WC'ers looking for a no hassle drop-in upgrade...
one of these days i'm going to get some blocks and add my vid card into my loop. i just hate draining and re-doing a loop. altho i do have an extra swiftech mcr220 rad and a micro res, all i would need is a new pump, then just run a seprate loop for my vid card. i should have plenty of room in my rocketfish case.