A little eye candy for us computer guys.

[TheTopher]

Yes, it really is a FTW edition.


My buddy just picked that up a day ago, we're waiting on a few extra water cooling lines and some new additives before we throw it in.


When he asked me if I thought he should drop the cash on it, I told him...

"A good friend will explain to you why spending $700 on a video card is irresponsible, but your best friend will say THAT'S F-ING AWESOME! and help you install it" and so I will


The card is over a foot long and has a full length waterblock on it, with all the copper it weighs quite a bit. I'm actually considering making a brace for it to help take some of the weight since it'll be even heavier when all the passages get filled with coolant.

I'll throw up some pics of the new water loop and whatnot once we get it installed, and benchmarks of course.

 

[mwood1985]

topher they seriously make computer stuff with antifreeze... holy crap and i thought my laptop was cool cause its kinda smallish...

 

[4.0B2]

what it is? hahahahahaahahaha
i love the water cooled computer things.. i'm not a computer guy but its cool.

 

[shane96ranger]

I likey!

 

[Endoverend47]

i love water cooled computers, except if you get a leak in one of the lines...then its game over

 

[TheTopher]

what it is? hahahahahaahahaha
i love the water cooled computer things.. i'm not a computer guy but its cool.

It's the best video card on the market right now, just released a couple weeks ago.

Still not cool enough? Then the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 FTW Hydro Copper 2 is for you. EVGA and Swiftech revamp the award winning Hydro Copper waterblock with a true single slot, full-cover design, end to end. The EVGA backplate adds additional stability, and the glowing EVGA logo makes it one of the most sleek looking waterblocks on the planet. The innovation doesn’t stop at stability and appearance. The base plate is made of chrome plated electrolytic C110 copper, and the 0.6mm thin pin matrix provides optimal thermal transfer to ensure the lowest temperatures possible.

* Full cover design and backplate
* Chrome-plated C110 copper
* 0.6mm thin-pin matrix for optimal thermal transfer
* True single slot design


Read more: http://wccftech.com/2010/11/20/evga-580gtx-ftw-hydro-copper-stores/#ixzz1AcogwPm1

Basically imagine a completely race built 460 engine putting out more hp than you ever thought possible and doing it right out of the box. This behemoth is so big that when I measured for it, the card's going to extend two inches into the hard drives. So far my plans are to move the pump from the middle 3.5 bays and move the hard drives there. Then completely remove the hard drive cage and place the pump at the bottom of the case and as far forward as I can. Hopefully that'll give me the clearance I need.

Those are the only pics I have for now, since the computer's at my friend's house. That red line in the 2nd pic is how far this new card extends. If you guys are actually interested I'd be happy to take pics of the process.

 

[robmedina]

now that is some serious gaming!

 

[Jaymz9350]

topher they seriously make computer stuff with antifreeze... holy crap and i thought my laptop was cool cause its kinda smallish...

It's not antifreeze (unless you chill the water but that's another story) it's just water and additives to kill organisms and to add color if desired.

If you think thats nuts try this

2 processors, 4 top end GPU's (pretty sure it's 580's under there) and the chipset all cooled with ln2 (liquid nitrogen)

 

[tecwizrd]

Hey! Where did you get the pictures of my G13, super secret, robotic eyeball controller? You should not have posted this, now the ISF will be looking for you.

 

[mp3deviant721]

I 'd.

 

[Psychopete]

It's sad that the card will be a slow piece of history in 5 years, and PCs will probably smoke that liquid nitrogen cooled computer on air.

 

[Jaymz9350]

It's sad that the card will be a slow piece of history in 5 years, and PCs will smoke that liquid nitrogen cooled computer at stock speeds .

There that's a little more accurate lol.

I don't find it sad myself, I really don't want to be using what was available 5 years ago right now, I have a PC from that era in my closet as it is painful for me to use lol.

 

[TheTopher]

There that's a little more accurate lol.

I don't find it sad myself, I really don't want to be using what was available 5 years ago right now, I have a PC from that era in my closet as it is painful for me to use lol.

I've found if you take those 5-year-old parts and stuff them into something unusual, like a toaster or an xbox case, maybe an old VCR you can still have some fun with them.


Although I have found it interesting that over the past 3 or 4 years heatpipe cooling has made small scale water cooling system obsolete. I can definitely see a cooling system in the future that utilizes a heatpipe air cooler with a peltier plate that can outperform that massive cooling tower I built.


Kinda neat how things are going. My only problem with how fast technology moves is that you have to get your product to the market so fast now-a-days to be competitive that it really doesn't leave enough time for adequate product testing to make sure all the kinks are worked out.

 

[Jaymz9350]

Although I have found it interesting that over the past 3 or 4 years heatpipe cooling has made small scale water cooling system obsolete. I can definitely see a cooling system in the future that utilizes a heatpipe air cooler with a peltier plate that can outperform that massive cooling tower I built.

The coolermaster v10 is a TEC and heatpipe air cooler but it's not that great, the problem with TEC's is to get effective cooling the are very inefficient thus drawing massive amounts of power to cool a modern processor.

 

[TheTopher]

The coolermaster v10 is a TEC and heatpipe air cooler but it's not that great, the problem with TEC's is to get effective cooling the are very inefficient thus drawing massive amounts of power to cool a modern processor.

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=21144

This one is pretty neat too. I like that it's only part time duty although Ultra does not have the best reputation for quality.


I was sure somebody would build one, you could even make one yourself quite easily. But I don't think heat pipe coolers are quite at the point where they can effectively dissipate all the heat the TEC would put out, at least not to the extend that would make it a viable option.





My buddy and I have been tossing around the idea of adding a TEC waterblock to his machine, but that would most likely make the temp at the CPU block higher than the GPU block, so I'd have to redo the whole water loop. Would still be a fun project though.