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zed
08-05-2009, 12:55 PM
Liquid cooling for your video card ready from the factory.
Liquid cooling, even though far more efficient than just air cooling, is often a hassle. Outfitting a video card with liquid cooling is usually a more intensive ordeal than working with the CPU – which is where BFG comes in with its announcement of pre-built, liquid cooled Nvidia GPUs.
BFG will be rolling out the GeForce GTX 285 H2O+ and GeForce GTX 295 H2OC graphics cards with "ThermoIntelligence Advanced Cooling Solutions," a fully assembled, self-contained liquid cooling solution right out of the box designed by CoolIT.
The cooling systems on the GTX 285 H2O+ and GTX 295 H2OC are designed to be maintenance-free, never need refilling and easily install into most systems. Users will be able to choose from three different system speed settings to control acoustics and performance—Auto, Quiet, and Maximum.
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"We’re very excited to be the first company to bring this type of professional grade advanced cooling solution to PC enthusiasts," said John Malley, senior director of marketing for BFG Technologies. "The BFG ThermoIntelligence Advanced Cooling Solutions provide customers a way to get all of the benefits of liquid cooling their graphics cards right out of the box, without having to install a separate liquid cooling system that requires assembly, filling, and challenging maintenance from time to time."
The clock speeds of each card is as follows:
BFG GeForce GTX 295 H2OC


Memory: 1792MB (1.8GB) GDDR3
Core Clock: 675MHz (vs. 576MHz standard)
Shader Clock: 1458MHz (vs. 1242MHz standard)
Memory Data Rate: 2214MHz (vs. 1998MHz standard)
Processor Cores: 480 (combined)

BFG GeForce GTX 285 H2O+


Memory: 1024MB (1GB) GDDR3
Core Clock: 691MHz (vs. 648MHz standard)
Shader Clock: 1566MHz (vs. 1476MHz standard)
Memory Data Rate: 2592MHz (vs. 2484MHz standard)
Processor Cores: 240

kaffey99
08-06-2009, 12:04 PM
That card is HUGE. Looks sweet though :p

Brian
08-06-2009, 03:27 PM
Wicked I love BFG thats the company I currently have and always use.
Once again they do above and beyond. They really do kick ass for gamer video cards.

Also they rank pretty high in gamers magazine for players choice.

BFG, FTW Always!!! PS, Nice research Sam, I'm guessing you want a few of those? I also bet they rank the price up about 1.5-2 Bills for the H2O series.

zed
08-06-2009, 05:38 PM
I'll need a new case if i want to get them cause they are so fucking huge.

kaffey99
08-06-2009, 06:57 PM
You would need like a full tower or a lancube lol..

Brian
08-06-2009, 07:38 PM
Full tower case is the word man, the cards are rather large. The same size as the 280's just the next series GPU's installed and more Ram. The cards being fat are not the problem in most cases. It's the length their about ideally speaking 9 inch's long.

I noticed seeing the cards having independent cooling using just the 88-110mm case fans. Not only do you need the space for the cards, but fan mounts as well. Also in "half decent locations" within the case itself for even and non stress air flow.

You see my Thermaltake LCS liquid cooling computer case has a good fan setup inside for mounting. But then again with a "Grill" like mine, it's powerful enough to cool a small car engine let alone take on three of them 295's cards with the CPU on the same lines.