PowerColor Readies Radeon HD 6990 LCS Water-Cooling Ready Graphics Card

btarunr · Apr 13, 2011, 09:54 AM

PowerColor is readying a new high-end Radeon HD 6990 based graphics card that's prepped for water-cooling, the PowerColor LCS HD 6990. Sticking to its LCS tradition, the new HD 6990 from PowerColor comes with a full-coverage water block made by EKWB, the EK-FC6990 pre-installed. The card sticks to AMD reference design PCB, and even uses the reference back-plate to cool memory chips on the reverse side of the PCB. The EK-FC6990 cools all heat-producing components on the obverse side, including the two Cayman GPUs, memory chips, VRM, and bridge chip. PowerColor's LCS HD 6990 is expected to come with out of the box overclocked speeds, and one can expect a hefty price-premium, taking the price closer or beyond the US $800~850 mark, or beyond.

Source: DonanimHaber

Lionheart · Apr 13, 2011, 11:31 AM

Dats a nice waterblock......GIMME

nINJAkECIL · Apr 13, 2011, 11:32 AM

Looks yummy, and they use EK

AsRock · Apr 13, 2011, 01:36 PM

No HDMI connection

.. Although that block looks cool.

WOutZoR · Apr 13, 2011, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AsRock

No HDMI connection

.. Although that block looks cool.

HDMI will most likely be provided through a mini-displayport -> HDMI cable, since its a reference design.
Check: http://www.powercolor.com/Global/pro...#Specification

Flibolito · Apr 13, 2011, 03:27 PM

Very sexy, even though it's more expensive in my opinion at this performance level liquid cooling is the only way to go. All the noise is gone, they clock better/run more stable and because the gpus stay very cool end up using less power (the card it self). Looks like a really nice card!

MoonPig · Apr 13, 2011, 06:11 PM

Long card is long.

rajan1311 · Apr 13, 2011, 06:14 PM

hope this is there in the next TPU giveaway... :P

OneCool · Apr 13, 2011, 07:23 PM

I think TPU should just give these away to all TPU members

techtard · Apr 14, 2011, 05:34 AM

If I win big at poker night maybe I'll get one. If I do, I'll have to upgrade the rest of my system though. A Phenom 2 @ 3.6 would likely seriously bottleneck one of these bad boys.

Nice looking water blocks, and if I'm not mistaken, single slot.

Loosenut · Apr 14, 2011, 06:11 AM

yup, single slot. A friggin long single slot

HammerON · Apr 14, 2011, 06:53 AM

Very smexy looking card

nINJAkECIL · Apr 14, 2011, 10:57 AM

some other pics, courtesy of vr-zone:

click

MLG The Canadian · Apr 14, 2011, 11:00 AM

Looks like it would disappear into your case.

Apr 13, 2011, 09:54 AM	#1
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