The new HD Toxic 5970... Watercooled?

Wow...that is impressive. Whoever made that cooler should make CPU coolers too.

 

Arctic Cooling do make CPU coolers...

 

Wow very inpressive for a cooler that takes up 3 slots, i guess i see why the toxic 5970 dosent need a watercooler, its already cold enough with that massive heatsink. I have decided to go for the xfx black edition, i cant wait to sell my old graphics card and get the other one. Soo excited!

 

The XFX Black Edition is currently a 2GB, and only 5850-grade performance rather than 5870-grade, but it's still pretty potent. The second 4GB 5970 I received also appears to be faulty, so you've made a wise choice going with XFX instead, the Sapphire cards seem dreadfully unreliable.

 

I should rephrase...the Person or persons who designed the GPU cooler should design a CPU cooler. Using up 3 slots is a bit of a cheat...and it limits the number of slots available for other things, but if the gentile buzz of the circuit board is louder than the fan, and it is cooling a monster like the 5970, then I would love to have such a cooler for my CPU.

 

Nah they shouldn't. The performance of that cooler is exceptional, but when not pre-applied to cards, it has only a 20% success rate of not destroying the card. The vast majority of Accelero owners have destroyed their graphics card trying to install one of those coolers (and not just the 5970 version either, the 4870X2 version was almost as bad, and I used the S1 Rev2 on my 3870 and destroyed that). I don't relish the prospect of the same happening to people's CPUs.

 

Wow...that is terrible! PS3 reflows have higher success rates! I know that sometimes you might have to move a few caps to the back of a video card to mount a new cooler...is that what is causing everyone so much trouble?

 

Nah, with my S1, it crushed the die, and with the 5970 it shorts out the DVI port connectors. Not sure what the issue with the 4870X2 version was, either way it was bad enough for me not to want to risk it!