Tuesday, December 1st 2009

Koolance Ready with Radeon HD 5970 Water-Block

PC water-cooling specialist Koolance is ready with its water-block for the ATI Radeon HD 5970 dual-GPU graphics card. The Koolance VID-AR597 water-block provides full-coverage to the obverse side of the PCB, covering all essential components such as the two AMD Cypress GPUs, the ATI/PLX bridge chip, the VRM areas, and some of the memory chips. From the looks of it, users will have to retain the back-plate for cooling memory chips on the reverse side. The block material is nickel-plated copper, the plating minimizes oxidation of the block, some parts of which are constantly in contact with the water/coolant. It is expected to be available in three days from now, priced at US $140.
Source: ATi-Forum.de
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18 Comments on Koolance Ready with Radeon HD 5970 Water-Block

#3
Tom20
I was expecting price to be 1k.
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#4
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
not bad at 140, should be all copper coated in GOLD! :ROFL!
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#5
Animalpak
Useless.

The new Vapor chamber implement in the 5970 cooler is more than enough.
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#6
t77snapshot
:eek::rockout:Very nice! Good price too. Now all I need to go with this block is a 5970:laugh:
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#7
Zubasa
AnimalpakUseless.

The new Vapor chamber implement in the 5970 cooler is more than enough.
There are some crazy people that do some crazy things to their cards.
Well, these crazy people are call the enthusiast.
For them nothing is enough. :laugh:
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#8
1Kurgan1
The Knife in your Back
AnimalpakUseless.

The new Vapor chamber implement in the 5970 cooler is more than enough.
Really? Because it seems that the 5870 end up clocking a bit better.
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#9
thebeephaha
AnimalpakUseless.

The new Vapor chamber implement in the 5970 cooler is more than enough.
Not if you want quiet overclocking.
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#10
Animalpak
Understood, sorry i forgot overclocking...
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#11
1Kurgan1
The Knife in your Back
AnimalpakUnderstood, sorry i forgot overclocking...
For stock clocks any factory cooler should be good enough, waterblocks aren't for stock clocks ever though. With a normal 5870 overclocking is nice, but with a 5970, I would feel bad not OCing it, because they underclocked it, still got to OC it 125mhz just to get back the performance they took from anyone who buys it (which is fine because that allows them to lower the cost).
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#12
lism
They clocked it down because of absurds TDP values.
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#13
phanbuey
yeah this is good if the card has ability to voldmod easily (which it does as it comes with software)... this block will let you get over 1GHz on both cores without a problem.
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#14
1Kurgan1
The Knife in your Back
lismThey clocked it down because of absurds TDP values.
When buying a dual GPU card, who worries about TDP?
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#15
Binge
Overclocking Surrealism
1Kurgan1When buying a dual GPU card, who worries about TDP?
I do.
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#16
Wile E
Power User
AnimalpakUseless.

The new Vapor chamber implement in the 5970 cooler is more than enough.
I guarantee my loop would have better temps.
BingeI do.
Fibber. Unless by "worry about", you mean make it as ridiculously high as possible without catching everything in the rig on fire. :D
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#17
Steevo
Do want.


Where the F is the eyefinity model with more vmem?
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#18
tzitzibp
t77snapshot:eek::rockout:Very nice! Good price too. Now all I need to go with this block is a 5970:laugh:
lol, so do I! :laugh:

*checking bank account*.......*:twitch:*.....*:wtf:*.....*:cry:*
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